On Friday 15 February 2002 04:24 pm, Yaron wrote: <snip> > Also thanks to Nate's suggestion, I put up pictures of one of them at > http://www.yaron.org/pic/jack/ I looked at your pictures. Are you using a 110 block punchdown tool? My guess, looking at them, is no. The wires need to be sunk all the way down in the block. Your left & right side pictures show wire less than half-way down into the slot in some cases. Even with them stripped bare, that isn't good enough. My advice - find someone with a 110 punchdown tool to borrow, or go buy one (I pretty sure MicroCenter has them, I know Graybar does, www.graybar.com, I don't know about Home Depot - if they have crimpers like has been mentioned on the list today, they might also have punchdown tools - a cheap one shouldn't run you more than $5 or $10). Otherwise, work a *lot* harder to get those wires all the way down into the block (I would be seriously surprised if you could do it with your bare hands). Dan