A dusty basement was filled with spare parts, gauges, huge vacuum tubes, unopened spools of cable marked with their date of manufacture (1944).
The pickpocket directed him around to the rear of the store, where an unpaved road led out of the lot and past a long line of metal storage sheds and then a fenced compound filled with rusting machinery and great wooden spools of cable.
Cat-5 cable is best purchased from small computer supply stores; larger chain stores are less likely to carry bulk spools of cable.
In a statement issued through NBC, Mr. Brokaw, 69, said that he was in the highway's left lane when the Ford S.U.V. "came up fast," trying to avoid a spool of cable bouncing in the right lane.
A spool of cable was flown in from San Francisco along with special fiber optic modems from Portland, Ore., and Salt Lake City that convert electronic radar signals to optical signals and back again.
Mr. Santiago glanced forlornly back at the hulking spool of cable, which he said was meant to connect a CBS Radio microphone position to a CBS camera location on the convention floor.
In that incident, a rope being used to lower a spool of cable down a staircase also broke and the runaway spool struck a 39-year-old Brooklyn woman, Xiao Leung, according to a lawsuit filed against the company and the transit agency in State Supreme Court in Manhattan.
Al O'Leary, the chief spokesman for New York City Transit, said that in a review of Sheldon's jobs, officials found that the company's workers also lost control of a spool of cable on March 25 , 1999 while installing communications lines at the West Fourth Street subway station.
The Brokaws were in the far left lane when they noticed a spool of cable bouncing along the far right lane.
Less pure and decidedly more Pop Artish are several enlarged objects called trade stimulators: a spool of cable-thick thread with a needle stuck through it, a never-lift Hoover steam iron and a Dunlop tire.
It smells of sawdust and diesel and it's filled with unforgiving artifacts: stiff wire brushes, heavy steel chains, old-fashioned wooden crates and medieval-looking winches; power tools, cement, mysterious vats of chemicals, and spools of electric cable as thick as a grown man's wrist.
