A courteous and decent co-worker assisted me by helping to dismantle the machine while I was waiting for the cables. The cables arrived, were signed for by the front desk, who WENT INTO A MEETING AND NEVER TOLD ME. Thankfully I was refreshing the UPS tracking website like a crack monkey pushing his fix button, and I got the cables. They had to be encased in a wire braid, which I had gotten earlier.

Putting a recalcitrant 10 meter cable inside a 9.5 meter wire braid is like jamming an anaconda into another anaconda. It took four of us, and it was no fun, but we got the cables together and I went to the customer to install.

The old cables had decided to stop being magnet cables and start being weld cables. That wasn’t working so well. So I managed to get the old crap cleaned up and put it all together, seal it up with red and hit the road. Now, it’s all about getting the lawn mowed and the daughter’s truck ready for her to go to school.