1941 U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS SPLICING OF FIELD WIRE CABLE TECHNIQUES FIELD TELEPHONE 11844
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Created by the U.S. Army Signal Corps as part of the "Basic Signal Communication" just before WWII, this film on field wire presents information about the laying of telephone and telegraph wire, with a focus on the splicing of wires. At 4:40, a two man team is shown making splices in tandem. Various knotting and joining techniques are shown, as well as images of troops laying both surface (1:16) and elevated cable by hand and with the use of a truck.
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Last night, I learned how to ditch a B17 in the ocean, today how to splice field cable.
It's all good until someone cranks the field phone in the middle of you splicing the wires. Guaranteed to cause cursing.
Average infantry/artillery soldier: "Screw that! Just twist the ends together and tape them!...we need to get going!"
So who else dredged Morse Code from the bottom of their pre-internet brain, and could still understand that?
Oh the 31-K/10 memories .!!❤️ I still have my issue TL pliers sheath and Barlow knife ...
The British had a solder splice; a thin walled copper tube with solder and flux on the inside and a pyrotechnic compound on the outside. The wired were threaded into the tube which was lightly crimped, then the pyrotechnic compund was lit. When it was cool the whole thing was taped.
Crazy. My father taught me this. He was a radio operator in WW2 in the Pacific. He said where possible the lines were strung tree to tree suspended from the tree by a piece of rope. He received a purple heart from enemy fire while on a repair job.
Those films are better than Security cameras…
Now days in the U.K. most copper wires are crimped the wires that feed from the pole to house 🏠 drop wires has 5 wires 4 copper 1 stranded support wire only 2 of the copper wires are used for communication the other 2 are spare I have seen some one use the support wire to give service when the other wires are broken when they should run a new wire things are changeover to fibre directly to the the home it was going this way before I retired from the industry 3 years ago
I'd like to see an instructional film on terminating Ethernet or fiber optics in this film style. Too bad that'll never happen.
Love these films. You can actually learn something. And the narrators voice is so calm and relaxing.
This method is still applicable today for repairing ham radio antennas!
Damn good method to make make reliable and strong connections without connectors and minimal tape. I really enjoyed watching this 👍
you were expected to do all this while being shot at? LEGENDARY BADASS.
BASIC SIGNAL COMMUNICATION
Another item that quietly helped to win the War.
You make those pretty splices when you have about ten guys watching your back and you have complete control of the area... :)
I wish that all of my critical wires were spliced this well! Not kidding!
This is a great to teach. It's done by people who have actually done the job instead of people who have read about the job. The military was successful in teaching a complex subject to people who had never encountered it before, in just days. That applies to every thing being used.
I find these videos amazing. Just imagine sitting in there, watching this. I had my own "videos" played to me when I was in the Army in the early 2000's.