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mrbostn,

I have mini 66 blocks I purchased for such occasions. I can chain the punchings to do what you desire and send the block to you. All I ask for is the cost of the 66 block and the postage. PM me if this will work.

Thanks

Oh, 66 blocks are easy :-)

https://www.public.carl.airpost.net/misc/66_loop.jpg

This was a residential 2nd floor with 6 cables and a feed. The customer had 2-line phones and a fax machine on that floor. The feed comes in on the lower right and the 6 drops are on the left, with #6 being the phone and fax jack. Any location can be opened for testing by pulling the bridge clips.

mrbostn,

I found the mini blocks. They have 12 rows of punchings. Each row is a solid piece of metal. The first punching faces left and the other five face right. There wouldn't be any chaining required. Put T on row one left and R on row two left. Then you can add up to five phones.

-> -> -> -> -> <-T----
Dial Tone
-> -> -> -> -> <-R----

It's the accepted way to use a split block and bridging clips, so that trouble-shooting is easier.

But perhaps I'm being anal retentive?

No sir, you are not. We did it the split block bridge clip way, at least in the part of the midwest I worked, but changed to the "bunch block" approach with the advent of modular jacks.

Thanks for the picture Carl. Personally to me, I do not like the loops on the right side, it doesn't look good in my opinion. I think that I'd rather opt out for running a wire on the inside of the block straight down on the pins. I have seen a few pics that I found on Google that looks like what you provided, I just though that you might provide a pic that looks better than whats out there. The conclusion I came to is that it is a little bit hard to wire 66 block for pots making it look good.
It just looks a bit sloppy with all the loops sticking out on the side, just my 2 cents on the issue. I still like patch panel approach a little better

I'd say the loops were just for clairity of the picture and are dressed against the block normally.

“I think that I'd rather opt out for running a wire on the inside of the block straight down on the pins.”

Unless you’re going to short the pairs, you’ll have loops inside the block. Dress the loops properly like Bill says and you’ll never see them.

Thats why I wanted to know if someone is able to provide a visual/picture of what the 66 block should look like when it its installed by the pro, clean and neat