Hi, this is a video explaining how to use the 2 wire and 3 wire telephone jelly crimps. To visit my ebay shop please click this link www.mrtelephone.co.uk
Thanks for posting this. The manufacturers of these seem to assume that the use is self evident, but actually quite nice to see the process illustrated for someone not in the trade.
Great video, really informative, thank you! One thing I do is use a pair of mole grips to make the connection - you can pre-set the gap between the jaws to the right width and they'll apply an even force over the whole crimp, just like the bespoke tool.
Thanks, covers everything I needed to know. Will need to do a break and make on a cable this week as as part of renovation works, video makes everything clear and obvious.
Been binge watching some of your videos since being referred by TronicsFix. Much to my amazement when I sorted by oldest and saw that I had already watched one of your videos years ago when I needed to repair some phone lines that were chewed through by squirrels.
thank for the video its been Very useful, but I would like to say I think you mean Extra Low Voltage (ELV) 0 to 50V and not Low Voltage 50v to 1000v. mains voltage is low voltage and willl kills you,
Hey, thank you for that. I had these when I was living in Turkey, they're called "YAK Connector" and I couldn't find them here in the UK - until I see the name "jelly crimp" here on your video. Just ordered A LOT of them on ebay :) thanks!
Hi, vince, excellent vids mate. I'm getting infinity 2, I thought my junction box was a bt80e, it turns out it's just connected to my external drop line with jelly crimps. What would you recommend for me to connect to my drop line, then run new phone line to another room and what to use as a master socket, also what cable to use for my phone line.
Thanks for the great guide! I'm wondering is it possible to connect 3 wires with a 2 wire jelly crimp? In your video about the ICD connections you said that 2 wires can fit into the same slot. Is this the same with jelly crimps too? I found out there's 2 external wires which connect to my internal phone line (Not quite sure why, but I want to connect it back exactly as it is), so if that's not possible with the 2 wire jelly crimps then I'll need to buy some others first. Thank you!
Question: Would you be able to splice together the bare (no sleeve/insulation/jacket) stranded ground wire on 2 Ethernet segments as well, please? (using these IDC's) Ty in advance Gr8 Instructional Video - Ty very much for sharing it!
Great video thanks! I’m a bit stuck with the house I just bought. The telephone wire that enters the property is just a loose wire at the rear of the property. I need to extend it to the front living room. I’ve bought 4-core telephone cable & jelly crimps, does anyone know which colours I crimp together? Thanks in advance. James 🙂
hi, very nice video.. i have question. is it a must to keep the isolation of the wires? is it still ok to use crip with the bare copper without its isolation?
+Samer Sherif Hi, you will be able to crimp them even if it is bare copper but if you have a wire with its insulation still on it then you do not have to strip it back to bare copper. Thanks Vince
Hi, I’ve had massive issues with my broadband, one minute it’s 20mb and the next it’s either 0 or round about 2mb... this is all day everyday. I’ve called EE and they sent out openreach, they said there are no issues from there side ( outside my home ) last week they came out and looked inside, first they said there was a fault 14 meters from the socket and then that there wasn’t, did 3 speed test, and they were all around 19 / 20 mb... when he left, the issue was still there. I have since run brand new cable from outside and connected it with jelly clips ( the same as it was) and run the cable directly to the new master socket ( 5C MK4 ) they fitted, I’ve taken out all the extensions, so the new cable runs directly from the box outside where the phone line meets the house to this master socket. Outside the orange cable was connected to the blue/white internal cable and the white was connected to the white blue internal cable, nothing else was connected. as I have run the cable direct and want no extensions. I have connected the two cables W/B and B/W to the A and B on the master socket as it was when I removed the box initially and what do you know, the fault is exactly the same. Am I doing something wrong or is there an intermittent fault on the exterior of the house. Thanks for your time and Can you please offer me some help / tips ? Cheers again, Nige
Hi, not sure if I'll get a reply but my broadband is dropping out very regularly. I have accidentally pulled the wires near my front door and I'm going to try and reconnect them, only the blue to white and orange to brown are connected, the rest, black and two shades of green are just loose. Will replacing the jelly clamps fix my issue and should I just leave the loose wires unconnected. Thanks
Can you use these for garage door sensor wires? I used the ones that came with the sensor kit but no electricity. Sensors didn't light up. I ended up twisting the wires together and putting electrical wire cap on it.
The little metal inserts in the crimp cuts through the plastic insulation on the wire so there is no need to cut back. On alarm cable you may struggle using these as when it is stranded core the wire can sometimes crush rather than the metal inserts cutting through the plastic insulation. They are designed for solid core cables :-)
My question is on a telephone cable. How many connection splitters do you use if you add an extension and do you insert 2 wires per extension or how does that go? Thank you.
Hi, the cat5e wires are the same size as telephone wires so these crimps will fit but if you extend the cat5e cable with jelly crimps then it isn't going to be rated as cat5e cable anymore because of the untwisting of the wires and no sheath etc. Whether you will actually notice any difference you may not on shorter lengths. You can get little cat5e and cat6 junction boxes which would be a better and you can waterproof them with amalgamating tape. I did a video on repairing/extending cat5e cable which shows the junction boxes if you want to check them out. Many thanks Vince.
In my house, the phone line comes in, and goes to 5 phone jacks. Previously, wire nuts were used. I thought it would be easier to keep track of the wiring by using a telephone wiring block, so I got one of those. The bare end of the wires screw down under the screws - I don't really like this, though, it seems like the wires get stressed and could break, and having multiple wires under one screw seems like it's a haphazard connection. I was thinking I will get spade terminals for the wires, but then, maybe there's the issue of a poorer connection, with the wire going through more connectors . . . what do you think about using spade terminals? For 22 gauge wires? . . . what's the thing called where the wire pushes down into the metal connectors? . . . is it easy to get the wire out if you want? do those work well? is that the way to go? thx
Hi, try and find my video on the BT78 junction box, it uses the IDC terminals (those metal push down connectors) and you can connect numerous cables to the one box. I can't get you the link for the video at the moment but hopefully you will find it by looking at my older videos. Thanks Vince
. . . This is what I have, the Leviton C0219-I junction block . . . imgur.com/a/CycxU Instead of spade terminals, I'm now thinking that I will do this . . . a visually, easy to understand wiring job. What do you think: This phone wire is 22 gauge. The landline is on one line. Hi-speed internet is on the other The one main wire comes into the house. I will attach green-red yellow-black under one of the screws of each color, so you will know that's the input. There are three other wires. One goes up, to all the phones upstairs. The other two go to two receptacles on the lower level (where I'm at, with this junction box). I find many uses for 18 gauge solid core. I think it will work here (right?) . . . I will cut a 4" length x 4, and put one end under the other screw on the junction box, each. I will take the other end, connect it to the other three wires, twist them a bit, and put a wire nut cap on them (4 wire nuts used). - - - - Do you know if there is any code about enclosures for the junction box? What came with the house: The phone lines were all wire nutted, and in a two-gang box. My initial thinking, and the current setup: Get a three-gang box, and just set it in there - but it's hard to work on, and it looks like it's designed to be secured by wood screws My current thinking: Set a 2x4 across the studs, use some 2x2's to make a frame, and make it so I can screw the junction box in there vertically. Dry wall will go all around. Use plastic edge covering strips to frame the edge of the drywall, around the cavity I have built within the wall. I was thinking that I could use a piece of wood (poplar comes in 5/8", same depth as drywall) to cover it (as a cover) - but then I'm thinking, what if a wood cover came in contact with low voltage wires . . . I have some PVC-no rot sheets left over from something else (1/2"), that might make a better cover. To keep dust off, and maybe moisture, cut plastic from a food storage bag (heavy plast, frozen storage bag), and staple it above the junction block to cover it. I'll now even have plenty of space in here to mount a note card explaining the setup and connections.
+Michael Lachica Hi, they are not reusable but you can squeeze them on the edge of the crimp to pop the lid off but you will need a new crimp because the old one may not crimp back down again.Thanks Vince
If I understood your video correctly, if I was going to splice telephone wire to extend a telephone line I would use a red splicer for a blue and white wire to a blue and white wire correct and another red splicer for a white with blue telephone wire?
Hi, no, it is designed for solid core but often it will still crimp stranded core cables. In the past I have stripped back the stranded core to expose the copper and then folded it back on itself to double the size and then crimped it and it has held. Thanks Vince
Hi i am in new zealand we have two wires here a orange one and a blue wire if i had a wire broken can you still make calls. And what cables can i use if i wanted to replace going from extension box back to the main box
After they installed my DSL I noticed the cable doesn't "click" into place, it just pulls right out. Is that normal these days? I just zip-tied it in-place for now.
What is the commercial name of these connectors? I have difficulty to find and but them. I used them a lot when I worked for Schlumbeger 35 years ago. At that time the name is scotch lock. Very useful to work with cars stereo. Cheers from Indonesia.
I dont know anything about electrics so hear is my problem... the small white box inside the house has wires showing. Orange /white white/orange, blue/white and white/blue. The blue wires are held in place by the little gel pads but the two orange wires are broken. Will i get a shock if i try to put them back together?
i have cable from RJ 11 i.e. black/green/yellow/red which do i join to which if extending using 2 twisted pair Orange, OrangeWhite, Blue and Bluewhite. tia
CAN I USE THE 3-WAY JELLY CRIMPS TO SPLIT MY INCOMING PHONE LINE WIRE - SO I CAN FIT 1 MASTER PHONE SOCKET IN MY LIVING ROOM - AND A SECOND MASTER PHONE SOCKET IN MY BEDROOM???
+Joyce Davidson If you have slack on the cable then you might be able to put a waterproof repair joint on it, have a look at my other youtube videos and find the one on repairing your cut telephone line. Thanks Vince
This was really useful for someone who never saw this type of conector before. Thanks a lot for sharing.
Thanks for posting this. The manufacturers of these seem to assume that the use is self evident, but actually quite nice to see the process illustrated for someone not in the trade.
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Great video, really informative, thank you! One thing I do is use a pair of mole grips to make the connection - you can pre-set the gap between the jaws to the right width and they'll apply an even force over the whole crimp, just like the bespoke tool.
***** Hi, I didn't think of that, that is a good idea using the mole grips.Many thanks Vince
Thanks, covers everything I needed to know. Will need to do a break and
make on a cable this week as as part of renovation works, video makes
everything clear and obvious.
Came here from WAY future videos... awesome from the very beginning (this first vid)
You again - you're helping me a lot lately! Cheers!
Thank you!. I just recieved a package for garage sensors and it had those little red connectors. I had no idea how to use them. You helped.
its crazy watching your first video vince.
Been binge watching some of your videos since being referred by TronicsFix. Much to my amazement when I sorted by oldest and saw that I had already watched one of your videos years ago when I needed to repair some phone lines that were chewed through by squirrels.
00:00 A legend was born
Weird hearing him "This is Vince from mr. telephone"
Welp, the legend started here. With whoever Mr. Telephone is.
Hi everyone, thanks for choosing to watch my video and please subscribe for more 'how to' videos in the future.
Many thanks Vince
Many thanks for your clear and simple instructions. I guess you could also use parallel pliers.
thank for the video its been Very useful, but I would like to say I think you mean Extra Low Voltage (ELV) 0 to 50V and not Low Voltage 50v to 1000v. mains voltage is low voltage and willl kills you,
Very useful. Thanks a lot!
There you go! :) My comment as promised! Now I know where to take my faulty gadgets! (Signed: The ergonomic phone case owner from HH😂)
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Legend was born ...
Great explanation, ta for taking the time to post this
Excellent and clear presentation always
Thanks
Very useful. Thanks
Hey, thank you for that. I had these when I was living in Turkey, they're called "YAK Connector" and I couldn't find them here in the UK - until I see the name "jelly crimp" here on your video. Just ordered A LOT of them on ebay :) thanks!
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Hi, vince, excellent vids mate. I'm getting infinity 2, I thought my junction box was a bt80e, it turns out it's just connected to my external drop line with jelly crimps. What would you recommend for me to connect to my drop line, then run new phone line to another room and what to use as a master socket, also what cable to use for my phone line.
Thank you. Very clear
Thank you your video help a lots.
Thanks for the great guide! I'm wondering is it possible to connect 3 wires with a 2 wire jelly crimp? In your video about the ICD connections you said that 2 wires can fit into the same slot. Is this the same with jelly crimps too? I found out there's 2 external wires which connect to my internal phone line (Not quite sure why, but I want to connect it back exactly as it is), so if that's not possible with the 2 wire jelly crimps then I'll need to buy some others first.
Thank you!
It would be best to use a 3 wire crimp for 3 wires. Sometimes it will work on a 2 wire crimp but it doesn't always make the connection.
Would these crimps be suitable for fixing a house alarm wire that has been cut?
Thanks, very helpful, hoping to stop my FTTC connection from dropping me 5 times a day!
Tom Spencer Thanks for making these videos.
Question:
Would you be able to splice together the bare (no sleeve/insulation/jacket) stranded ground wire on 2 Ethernet segments as well, please? (using these IDC's) Ty in advance
Gr8 Instructional Video - Ty very much for sharing it!
Very useful video. Thank you
A legend was born
Thanks for the posting. How do you crimp telephone cables like we do in cat 5 and 6 ethernet cables
This guy is a legend.
Great video thanks! I’m a bit stuck with the house I just bought. The telephone wire that enters the property is just a loose wire at the rear of the property. I need to extend it to the front living room. I’ve bought 4-core telephone cable & jelly crimps, does anyone know which colours I crimp together? Thanks in advance. James 🙂
hi, very nice video.. i have question. is it a must to keep the isolation of the wires? is it still ok to use crip with the bare copper without its isolation?
+Samer Sherif Hi, you will be able to crimp them even if it is bare copper but if you have a wire with its insulation still on it then you do not have to strip it back to bare copper.
Thanks Vince
Hi, I’ve had massive issues with my broadband, one minute it’s 20mb and the next it’s either 0 or round about 2mb... this is all day everyday. I’ve called EE and they sent out openreach, they said there are no issues from there side ( outside my home ) last week they came out and looked inside, first they said there was a fault 14 meters from the socket and then that there wasn’t, did 3 speed test, and they were all around 19 / 20 mb... when he left, the issue was still there. I have since run brand new cable from outside and connected it with jelly clips ( the same as it was) and run the cable directly to the new master socket ( 5C MK4 ) they fitted, I’ve taken out all the extensions, so the new cable runs directly from the box outside where the phone line meets the house to this master socket. Outside the orange cable was connected to the blue/white internal cable and the white was connected to the white blue internal cable, nothing else was connected. as I have run the cable direct and want no extensions. I have connected the two cables W/B and B/W to the A and B on the master socket as it was when I removed the box initially and what do you know, the fault is exactly the same. Am I doing something wrong or is there an intermittent fault on the exterior of the house. Thanks for your time and Can you please offer me some help / tips ? Cheers again, Nige
Hi, not sure if I'll get a reply but my broadband is dropping out very regularly. I have accidentally pulled the wires near my front door and I'm going to try and reconnect them, only the blue to white and orange to brown are connected, the rest, black and two shades of green are just loose. Will replacing the jelly clamps fix my issue and should I just leave the loose wires unconnected. Thanks
Can you use these for garage door sensor wires? I used the ones that came with the sensor kit but no electricity. Sensors didn't light up. I ended up twisting the wires together and putting electrical wire cap on it.
If all you have is a 3 port crimp can you still use it to connect 2 wires?
What do you recommend for amperage in use?
Great video. Can you explain why you do not need to strip back and would that be the same when joining house alarm cable.
The little metal inserts in the crimp cuts through the plastic insulation on the wire so there is no need to cut back. On alarm cable you may struggle using these as when it is stranded core the wire can sometimes crush rather than the metal inserts cutting through the plastic insulation. They are designed for solid core cables :-)
Thanks for sharing.
Can I still open them after being crimped?
Thank you
great video
Thanks good explication
nice explanation video
My question is on a telephone cable. How many connection splitters do you use if you add an extension and do you insert 2 wires per extension or how does that go? Thank you.
How is an electrical connection made when both wires are still covered in plastic?
Inside the crimp there is a metal insert and this metal cuts into the wires to make the connection.
Can they be use on a car stereo
Thank you very much.
Presumably all these joins are accommodated in a junction box?
Hi Vince could thease connectors also be used to join Cat5e for cctv applications when extending cable runs.
Hi, the cat5e wires are the same size as telephone wires so these crimps will fit but if you extend the cat5e cable with jelly crimps then it isn't going to be rated as cat5e cable anymore because of the untwisting of the wires and no sheath etc. Whether you will actually notice any difference you may not on shorter lengths. You can get little cat5e and cat6 junction boxes which would be a better and you can waterproof them with amalgamating tape. I did a video on repairing/extending cat5e cable which shows the junction boxes if you want to check them out.
Many thanks Vince.
Thanks vince for info.
In my house, the phone line comes in, and goes to 5 phone jacks. Previously, wire nuts were used.
I thought it would be easier to keep track of the wiring by using a telephone wiring block, so I got one of those. The bare end of the wires screw down under the screws - I don't really like this, though, it seems like the wires get stressed and could break, and having multiple wires under one screw seems like it's a haphazard connection.
I was thinking I will get spade terminals for the wires, but then, maybe there's the issue of a poorer connection, with the wire going through more connectors . . . what do you think about using spade terminals? For 22 gauge wires?
. . . what's the thing called where the wire pushes down into the metal connectors? . . . is it easy to get the wire out if you want? do those work well? is that the way to go? thx
Hi, try and find my video on the BT78 junction box, it uses the IDC terminals (those metal push down connectors) and you can connect numerous cables to the one box. I can't get you the link for the video at the moment but hopefully you will find it by looking at my older videos.
Thanks Vince
. . . This is what I have, the Leviton C0219-I junction block . . . imgur.com/a/CycxU
Instead of spade terminals, I'm now thinking that I will do this . . . a visually, easy to understand wiring job. What do you think:
This phone wire is 22 gauge. The landline is on one line. Hi-speed internet is on the other
The one main wire comes into the house. I will attach green-red yellow-black under one of the screws of each color, so you will know that's the input.
There are three other wires. One goes up, to all the phones upstairs. The other two go to two receptacles on the lower level (where I'm at, with this junction box).
I find many uses for 18 gauge solid core. I think it will work here (right?) . . . I will cut a 4" length x 4, and put one end under the other screw on the junction box, each.
I will take the other end, connect it to the other three wires, twist them a bit, and put a wire nut cap on them (4 wire nuts used).
- - - -
Do you know if there is any code about enclosures for the junction box?
What came with the house: The phone lines were all wire nutted, and in a two-gang box.
My initial thinking, and the current setup: Get a three-gang box, and just set it in there - but it's hard to work on, and it looks like it's designed to be secured by wood screws
My current thinking:
Set a 2x4 across the studs, use some 2x2's to make a frame, and make it so I can screw the junction box in there vertically.
Dry wall will go all around. Use plastic edge covering strips to frame the edge of the drywall, around the cavity I have built within the wall.
I was thinking that I could use a piece of wood (poplar comes in 5/8", same depth as drywall) to cover it (as a cover) - but then I'm thinking, what if a wood cover came in contact with low voltage wires . . . I have some PVC-no rot sheets left over from something else (1/2"), that might make a better cover.
To keep dust off, and maybe moisture, cut plastic from a food storage bag (heavy plast, frozen storage bag), and staple it above the junction block to cover it.
I'll now even have plenty of space in here to mount a note card explaining the setup and connections.
Jelly beans I’ve got a couple boxed from over 30-35 years ago. Like new. Still no degradation
Hi There, Just wondering how do you open this once you have crimped the wires together. Is it possible to open it again? Please advice. Thank you.
+Michael Lachica Hi, they are not reusable but you can squeeze them on the edge of the crimp to pop the lid off but you will need a new crimp because the old one may not crimp back down again.Thanks Vince
hi can these crimps be used to splice a broken dsl/telephone line?
Hi, yes they can or if the break is internal then you could use a BT78 or BT77 junction box if you have enough slack on the wires to repair it.
If I understood your video correctly, if I was going to splice telephone wire to extend a telephone line I would use a red splicer for a blue and white wire to a blue and white wire correct and another red splicer for a white with blue telephone wire?
Vince, Can I use jelly crimp on stranded copper? Thanks
Hi, no, it is designed for solid core but often it will still crimp stranded core cables. In the past I have stripped back the stranded core to expose the copper and then folded it back on itself to double the size and then crimped it and it has held.
Thanks Vince
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Thanks, I was wondering if I could remove the connector without cutting it off. Oh well. Guess there's extra wire.
Hi i am in new zealand we have two wires here a orange one and a blue wire if i had a wire broken can you still make calls. And what cables can i use if i wanted to replace going from extension box back to the main box
After they installed my DSL I noticed the cable doesn't "click" into place, it just pulls right out. Is that normal these days? I just zip-tied it in-place for now.
can you do a video on how the continuity tester works
What is the commercial name of these connectors?
I have difficulty to find and but them.
I used them a lot when I worked for Schlumbeger 35 years ago. At that time the name is scotch lock. Very useful to work with cars stereo.
Cheers from Indonesia.
how do the jelly crimps make an electrical connection when you havent stripped the wires ? - I assume they must cut into the plastic sheath somehow ?
I dont know anything about electrics so hear is my problem...
the small white box inside the house has wires showing. Orange /white white/orange, blue/white and white/blue. The blue wires are held in place by the little gel pads but the two orange wires are broken. Will i get a shock if i try to put them back together?
No you will not get a shock
Your very first video
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Do these work on alarm cable?
Yes
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i have cable from RJ 11 i.e. black/green/yellow/red which do i join to which if extending using 2 twisted pair Orange, OrangeWhite, Blue and Bluewhite. tia
CAN I USE THE 3-WAY JELLY CRIMPS TO SPLIT MY INCOMING PHONE LINE WIRE - SO I CAN FIT 1 MASTER PHONE SOCKET IN MY LIVING ROOM - AND A SECOND MASTER PHONE SOCKET IN MY BEDROOM???
The lines were cut and the box looks sorry. How can I save the land line? It's outside a garage. will the lines run inside it?
+Joyce Davidson If you have slack on the cable then you might be able to put a waterproof repair joint on it, have a look at my other youtube videos and find the one on repairing your cut telephone line.
Thanks Vince
Push it allllllllllll the way in.
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dont use pliers have proved this method causes high resistance open circuit
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I did the same thing and now my internet is slow like 2 mega?
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Yeah they're called scotch locks bud, not jelly what ever the hell u call them lol
Actually, they are called Connector Wire Insulated 8A, but commonly known as jelly connectors
The guy filming ruined your video. Couldn't watch it through.
Great info, terrible camera work!
cheap ones from china !!!! you gotta be joking hahahahahahahaha