{"id":614,"date":"2008-09-19T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/19\/cool-tool-gmp-cable-presser\/"},"modified":"2008-09-19T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T16:15:00","slug":"cool-tool-gmp-cable-presser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/19\/cool-tool-gmp-cable-presser\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Tool: GMP Cable Presser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/SNPfiggpXmI\/AAAAAAAAA-Y\/MGrajBgMxYc\/s1600-h\/100_2376.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/SNPfiggpXmI\/AAAAAAAAA-Y\/MGrajBgMxYc\/s400\/100_2376.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247783774752169570\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had the idea a few weeks ago to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Make_a_Passive_Network_Tap\/\">make a passive network tap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On campus the ECE college has a parts store called Tech Electronics that has some cool stuff like ICs and sockets led, etc&#8230;  However they do not have modular rj45 jacks. They did have the name of the network guy, who was the nicest guy in the world.<\/p>\n<p>He did not have any jacks, but he did give me a very nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmptools.com\/nf\/70630.htm\">GMP<\/a> Cable Presser.<\/p>\n<p>It has separate dies for rj11, rj45, some weird 6pin connector, a quality leather case, built in wire stripper and it seriously looks like was made to last a lifetime. I have no idea how old this is, but GMP from PA is still making it. Which is good, since the tool has a lifetime warranty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/SNPfjUx1vcI\/AAAAAAAAA-g\/rKCvjfi_ksA\/s1600-h\/100_2377.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/SNPfjUx1vcI\/AAAAAAAAA-g\/rKCvjfi_ksA\/s400\/100_2377.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247783788782927298\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looks like GMP has quite the history, working with the early Bell Labs.<\/p>\n<p>Extra Dyes:<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/SNPfj2YuHTI\/AAAAAAAAA-o\/ZHWn9lxoHMc\/s1600-h\/100_2379.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/SNPfj2YuHTI\/AAAAAAAAA-o\/ZHWn9lxoHMc\/s400\/100_2379.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247783797804375346\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leather case: <a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/SNPfiY-h6YI\/AAAAAAAAA-Q\/F5cazUdQF9Y\/s1600-h\/100_2380.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/SNPfiY-h6YI\/AAAAAAAAA-Q\/F5cazUdQF9Y\/s400\/100_2380.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247783772730026370\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I plan on keeping this forever, it will last that long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the idea a few weeks ago to make a passive network tap. On campus the ECE college has a parts store called&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}