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Posted by Meat Plow on June 23, 2007, 9:23 am
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:42:23 -0400, Max wrote:
> This is a weird question I know but it's a weird problem.
>
> We have a bathroom phone outlet and the phone just quit working one
> day. I had originally thought that it might be a faulty phone since
> the rest of the phones in the house worked.
>
> Come to find out that when I tested the phone in other outlets it was
> fine. I pulled the panel off the wall and discovered this "snot" all
> up inside the plug..similiar to half dried rubber glue (but clear).
>
> This "snot" was causing the phone plug to not make good contact.
>
> Soooo...I replaced the entire outlet, put everything back together
> and everything worked fine again for several months.
>
> Well, now it's back and I have the same problem.
>
> Does anyone know what's causing this? Humidity? And if so,
> where is this stretchy glue like substance coming from?
>
> Any telco experts out there? It's just weird. There's nothing
> else inside the outlet that could be dripping on the plug and besides,
> this "snot" is *inside* the plug where the 4 wires are exposed.
>
>
>
> tks.
>
Did this just start happening? Had the phone in the bathroom long?
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