Justin Knight talks quickly Friday morning as he pounds together spliced strands of lift cable underneath the towers of Aspen Highlands’ new Deep Temerity chairlift.The splicing process of the ...

ULC Technologies, a company specializing in energy industry robotics and automation, and Con Edison Company of New York, operator of one of the world’s largest energy delivery systems, have recently ...

Really. As this wonderfully narrated talkie picture from 1939 will attest, keeping even one drop of water from penetrating undersea cables is of the utmost importance. How do they do it? Many, many ...

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) - Replacing a cable on a ski lift doesn’t require a mechanic, it requires an artist. Fortunately for Jackson Hole’s ski epicenters, a world-class cable splicer lives in Wilson. The ...

The National Cable Splicing Certification Board (NCSCB) recently introduced a national program to certify medium-voltage cable splicers. The program, an offshoot of a regional certification, the ...

A while back, [Marius] was faced with a problem. A friend of his lives in the middle of a rainforest, and a microphone was attacked by a dirty, greasy rat. The cable was gnawed in half, and with it ...

I got a Wacom Intuos graphics tablet - a killer 9"x12" one, at that - for free from a friend whose dog had chewed off the USB end, and bit it in half near the end, too. w00t! Those things are $400 new ...