Reroute copper and ancient junction box

plumface

I think he means the old 'bellwire' type dropwire.
You will have to connect to a BT80A .
This will enable you to terminate the 2 differing diameters of wire.

spike7451

plumface wrote: »

I think he means the old 'bellwire' type dropwire.
You will have to connect to a BT80A .
This will enable you to terminate the 2 differing diameters of wire.

I was assuming he was using an older style coffin box terminal before the BT80A & would be replacing the old internal cable with a new twisted pair to the NTE5 & that the coffin box would remain in place.

grumpycrab

I haven't a clue about terminology (that's obvious!). But the cable pair that comes into my old master box is obviously ancient. Its just a pair of wires to me which will screw onto the A and B terminals of the NTE5 box (no special tool required).

spike7451

grumpycrab wrote: »

I haven't a clue about terminology (that's obvious!). But the cable pair that comes into my old master box is obviously ancient. Its just a pair of wires to me which will screw onto the A and B terminals of the NTE5 box (no special tool required).

God that is ancient,what;s the white wire for?...is the an extension running on it..

ps,you're not ex RAF are you?....just your username refers to what we are known as...(crab)

grumpycrab

The white wire is an extension (unused).

plumface

You have 4 options:-
1) Do it yourself.(all the parts you need are available on ebay)
2) Get a local independent telephone engineer to do it,have a look in the local paper etc (should cost about £50-£80)
With the above 2 you will have to make sure it is done correctly as you are not supposed to be touching anything before,and including ,the master socket.Any fault found by BT could cost you about £130 for there visit!!!
3) Report an intermittent 'noise' fault on your line.These type of faults are almost non 'testable'.You could strike lucky by meeting a decent engineer when they visit,and after filling him with tea and biscuits, he might do the 'extra' work for you.The main socket should now be a nte5 type anyway.
4) Pay BT to come out and do it...£130

grumpycrab

FYI Solwise are reporting that Austin Taylor (they make BT approved NTE5s I believe) are having problems (may be gone bust), so I had to source my NT5E (with AB screw terminals from somewhere else.)