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From: Dave Platt <dplatt@coherent.com>
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Subject: Butt-sets ... How to Choose?
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Date: 17 Aug 90 19:44:06 GMT
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I'm interested in buying a decent butt-test set and some other
phone-setup tools ... the job of maintaining our company's phone system
and data-comm wiring has ended up on my list-of-things-to-do (not that
I'm sorry about it at all, though!)

I've got catalogs here from Techni-Tool, Time Motion Tools, and
Specialized Products Company.  There appear to be quite a number of
butt-test sets which would meet my simple needs ... ranging in price
from $150 up to $300 or so.

The most widely-offered seem to be the Harris (or Dracon) TS-21 line
 ...  the TS21-X89 (water-resistant) is priced about the same as the
older, non-water-resistant models (sometimes less!) and seems to have
some other advantages as well.  It appears that the whole TS-21 line
comes _without_ ringers, though ... is this true?

Does anybody have any suggestions about specific models which work
particularly well, or particularly badly, or are good bargains?  I
don't wish to spend more $$ than necessary ... but I don't insist on a
bargain-basement model either (I've learned the hard way that "buying
cheap" is often expensive in the long run).

Any recommendations?


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