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Cut phone cable; help?

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Hello,
I’ve recently had someone in decorating and they’ve unfortunately cut the phone cable. 
I’ve pulled the cable through from the outside and I’m trying to reconnect. 
Which 2 colours come from the external cable and goes into the 2 x terminals (A and B) in the phone point (the box on the “internal” picture.  It used to go into a junction box which took the 6 cables and converted them into 2, but as I say, I don’t know which ones as I wasn’t.  

See image attached. It’s a very old 6 core cable and I have no idea which 2 are the active cables. 

Much appreciated if anyone knows the answer. 

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  • Neil_Jones
    Neil_Jones Posts: 9,565 Forumite
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    Is this on "your" side of the master socket or "BT's" side?

    If its on your side, then phone cables only need numbers 2 and 5, legacy number 3 (bell ringer, often not needed these days) and number 4 is often connected (makes it look neat) but doesn't actually do anything.  Number 1 and 6 don't do anything either.
  • Chino
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    If its on your side, then phone cables only need numbers 2 and 5, legacy number 3 (bell ringer, often not needed these days) and number 4 is often connected (makes it look neat) but doesn't actually do anything.  Number 1 and 6 don't do anything either.
    You might want to explain how those numbers relate to the colours of the wires that the OP has to deal with.
  • molerat
    molerat Posts: 34,632 Forumite
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    edited 29 August 2020 at 7:58PM
    Orange and white should be the incoming BT pair.  Orange (0v) should go to B/2 and White (-48v) to A/5.  Generally though it should not matter which round they go. Note carefully the use of "should" B)
  • Should is right - when I had line problems the BT engineer went up the pole and swapped the lines to use the redundant pairs - and of course swapped them internally as well.
  • Why are you sorting it - the decorator should be fixing it seems as it was him that broke it
  • The “decorator” is actually a family friend and would probably manage to somehow make it worse.  

    Thanks for everybody’s input. 
    Yes, just to clarify the situation, which 2 (colours) of cables from the 6 core (external) go to the BT socket's AB (presently brown and blue as seen in “internal” side of the picture).

    So I will remove the brown and blue from terminal A and B and try the orange and white as per molerat’s response.  Hopefully that will work and thanks again!   I will post an update once I’ve tried. 
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