Repairing Broken Internet Cables

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m Mike with expertvillage.com and today what I’m going to be doing is finishing the repair of a network cable. I’ve got my pieces all flatten and separated out, all four of my twisted pairs here. We’re going from left to right it’s white orange, orange, white green, blue, white blue, green and then white brown and brown, so that’s all eight of my conductors. Those are all nice and flat. What I want to do since they’re not all quiet the same length here on the end, going to take my cutter stick them in here and clip. Now we’ve got a nice even end to go with. While I’m still holding that without releasing it, I’m going to take my blank RJ45 end, or network end, and slide those in. Since I’ve already spent the time to kind of flatten those out and roll in between my fingers, you’ll notice that they just slide right in without any trouble. It takes a little practice to be able to get to that point and maybe a couple of trial and errors so don’t be afraid if it doesn’t work perfectly the first time. Well after you’ve got this on you still don’t have a completed network cable you need to take and use a crimping devise. So I get out my crimp tool here again, get the little tiny pieces of network that’s loose from it. It will need to slide in to the correct side, which I wasn’t on it. We’re going to pick here, put this in the correct one. AP is for RJ45, the six is for RJ12 not used in standard networking. What we do is we take, and you really need to clamp down and use quiet a bit of force. I usually will take and make sure there’s not any wiggle in the end itself when it’s moving about in there. When I’m done you should be able to pull on it with a reasonable amount of force and it’s just fine. A very close inspection on the backside you’ll tiny little points that have cut through the wires, which what you were actually crimping down."