I don't understand part of his reasoning behind this. I mean when you're going to rebuild an old system, shouldn't you cut out all stops so that you get less headache's in the future?
Cheaped out too much
Member #: 23796
Registered: 5/31/2003
Posted:
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Name:
Devon
Company:
Oberlin Cable Co-op
Occupation:
Maintenance Tech
Location:
Oberlin, Ohio
I'm new to the cable business, about 3 years experience, compared to you all you guys. But I'm just a little concerned over how my GM is going about with our new rebuild. We just recently hung fiber on our 500 mhz Jerold System. Our GM is tryin to cheap out as much as possible. He's going to try to use old RMS taps that go to 750 mhz and try to push a gig out of them. He said that it's more cost effective than going out into the field and replacing all of the other taps. I can understand cheaping out somethings in a rebuild, but when is enough enough? My company is a small company with only 7 employees and 3 bucket trucks, 1 van, and 1 F-150. We don't even have a splicing machine if we need to any kind of emergency splices at all. My GM responded that we'd hire out anything that needed to be spliced.
I don't understand part of his reasoning behind this. I mean when you're going to rebuild an old system, shouldn't you cut out all stops so that you get less headache's in the future?
I don't understand part of his reasoning behind this. I mean when you're going to rebuild an old system, shouldn't you cut out all stops so that you get less headache's in the future?
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