For those of us who started experimenting with electricity when we were very young, one of the essential first skills was learning how to twist wires together. It seems like there’s not much to learn, ...

Justin Knight talks quickly Friday morning as he pounds together spliced strands of lift cable underneath the towers of Aspen Highlands’ new Deep Temerity chairlift.The splicing process of the ...

Wire splicing and soldering is a basic skill that any DIYer can master—but it all starts with a solid connection between the two wires. That’s where the Lineman splice comes in. Connecting two wires ...

A while back, [Marius] was faced with a problem. A friend of his lives in the middle of a rainforest, and a microphone was attacked by a dirty, greasy rat. The cable was gnawed in half, and with it ...

Continuously purchasing new cables to meet changing demands can increase costs and cut into your business' profits. You can cut and splice your own universal serial bus, or USB, cables to meet the ...

The 222 Series splicing connector enables termination and retermination of wires in sizes from 28 to 12 AWG. The three-conductor connector integrates an orange actuator lever that allows for toolless ...

I got a Wacom Intuos graphics tablet - a killer 9"x12" one, at that - for free from a friend whose dog had chewed off the USB end, and bit it in half near the end, too. w00t! Those things are $400 new ...

So I moved into a new house where the previous owner put speaker wire behind the floorboard for rear speakers in the family room. I have a "computer" 5.1 surround system that uses RCA cables to ...

A. The NEC requirement for splicing cables and conductors installed in cable trays is stated in Sec. 392.56. Splices are permitted in a cable tray if the splice is ...