I remember using the foil trick and if it unjacketed cable using duct tape and electrical tape if it was jacketed so harder to tell from the road. But i do remember one project i was on resplicing entire runs to fix a suckout and instead of shrink on connectors had bishop tape on em and when i pulled off tape foil at each location I was rolling on that one.
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