Let's Twist Again Like We Did Last Summer. Let's Twist Again Those C.P.C.s.

I wonder if that was done by sticking the wires in a drill.  I have made my own twisted pair cables in the past by putting two wires into a drill, and winding it until it looks about right.

an artisan would do it by hand and it would look like a machine had done it

Simon Barker said:

I wonder if that was done by sticking the wires in a drill. 

Don't forget that there was a time before battery-powered drills.

I can imagine a flat capped  old boy twisting the earth wires together in a leisurely fashion just before he lit up a Player's Weights fag.

Z.

Chris Pearson said:

Don't forget that there was a time before battery-powered drills.

We had hand drills back then.  No batteries to run flat.

Close! I still twist... remember, I think it was R&R who posted something like this, years' ago?

The good old "brace and bit" was still in vogue in my youth. In fact at senior school one pupil asked why it was called a brace and bit. Another pupil quipped "`cos it`s a bit o` metal that cuts!" He got a clip round the ear for that 

The good old "brace and bit" was still in vogue in my youth. In fact at senior school one pupil asked why it was called a brace and bit. Another pupil quipped "`cos it`s a bit o` metal that cuts!" He got a clip round the ear for that