It’s 2010, which means it’s almost the future, which means pretty soon your speaker wire-stripping and Cat 5 cable-crimping skills will about as useful as knowing how to cobble a pair of shoes. Here’s ...

For those of you still running network cable all over the house, Of Zen and Computing has a great rundown on how to splice two cables together for extra long length with an Exacto knife and some duct ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new cold shrink inline splice kit from 3M is designed to splice 46-kV solid dielectric power cable with a conductor size range from 4/0 AWG to 1000 kcmil. A new cold shrink inline splice kit from 3M ...

Q. I would like to know if it’s possible to splice from the cable box of one TV into another TV – which is cable-ready with remote control – in order to watch different programs on each set. I heard ...

CAMP MARMAL, Afghanistan -- If you’ve ever watched a technician install television or internet, first imagine the intricate wiring routing and connections necessary for your home, then vastly increase ...

It's a chilly, clear day at the foot of the Sea to Sky Gondola in Squamish, but Swiss rope-splicing expert Hannes Koller has sweat dripping off his face. Steam rises off his clothes, as Koller ...