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 Catalog of Unique Telecom & Cable Installation Products

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Click here to go to out new Template and Level with Tape Measure, for our Low Voltage Mounting Devices


Template
& Level  for Low Voltage Mounting Devices
 

Click to see the $89.95 Korean Butt-set... It's Great!Great Butt-set!

Regular: $94.99
      
3+ @ $89.95

With Monitor Speaker: $114.95
      
3+ @ $109.95


We specialize in hard to find Unique Telecom Products
: Problem solving tools, accessories, test equipment, telephone repair parts and the training needed to use these products. Our Training Videos are used by telephone men and computer network installers throughout the country.
 
Mike Sandman... Chicago's Telecom Expert
ships 98% of the orders placed before 2:30PM Central Time, the same day.

INDEX:

Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Catalog Pages in PDF Format (Last Catalog from 2001)
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Technical Bulletins - Solutions to Telecom Problems
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Telephone History Pages *- Updated 12/13/09

 
Neat new full page ad
for Western Electric
Color 500 Sets, from
the mid 50s!




Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Successfully Implement VoIP Lines or Equipment    
   Things to check for as you do your homework...

   If you don't read this, it could cost you thousands!
                          Updated 7/3/10       

Training for Phone Men...  
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Training Videos & Books
   Both
Technical and SALES Training Videos and Books...
   All priced so that anybody can afford them!

         

All Training Videos are Now Available
in both 
DVD  and  VHS  Formats!

Fixing Telephone Line and Station Problems...
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Testing & Fixing Telephone Lines
   Lots of Parts and Information to help you Fix Phone
   Lines
and Analog Station Ports. 
Lower the Loop Current!*
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Long Loop Adapters
   Boost
the Voltage, Current and Ringing on Telephone
   Lines and Analog Station Ports (OPXs)

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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Chernobyl Phone Filter™ & Chernobyl Network Filter™
  
Fix Phone & Network problems without troubleshooting with
   this Patented Zero Ohm Technology™

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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) The Modem Protector™ & Modem Filter
   Stops Modems from being Blown Up, and Improves
   Connection Speeds!

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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) RF (Radio Frequency) Eliminator (Filter) 
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Lightning & Surge Protection for Phone Lines
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*Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Phone Line & 600 ohm Square Pad Audio Attenuators 
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*Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) DTMF (Touch Tone®) Digit Decoding Tools
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Nationwide Central Office (CO) Database Lookup
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Fix Unfixable VoIP Problems... The network does matter!
Click to see info on fixing network problems with the EtherShark™ Tap
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EtherShark™ Tap

10/100 Full Duplex Aggregating Ethernet Network Tap let you see the SIP call setup and voice packets, and listen to both sides of the actual VoIP call captured on the open source Wireshark packet analyzer software on your laptop or PC



 

Telephone Accessories...

Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Wizard's Toolbox - Make Phones Do Anything!
  
Accessories, Devices and Relays let you make almost any
   customer request happen!  Lots of ideas and  solutions!

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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Caller ID Products 
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Call Accounting Products
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Headsets for Business Telephones 
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) CAT5, CAT6 & Voice Jacks   
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Telephone Stands
   Tilt Your Phone for Easier Dialing and Reduced Reflections!
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Message Waiting Technical Info and Products
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Line Sharing Devices
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Telephone Recording & Playback
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Telephone Recording PC Software
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) World's Best Door Box
  
Answering the Door has never been as Easy or Safe!
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) TKM-6 Transfer Switches - Modular & Screw Terminal
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Consultation Phones with 2 Handsets!
  
These Telephones work great as a Translation Phone
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Dialers, Toll Restrictors, No-Dial Phones 
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Unique Telecom Accessories
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*Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) RS232 Serial Tools and Accessories
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Custom Built Handsets & Hookswitches for Kiosks
   Pay Phones, Intercoms, 911 Centers, Prison Phones

Cable and 66 Blocks...

Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) 25 Pair Cable, 66 Blocks, D-Rings, Tie Wraps    
   Connectorized Cable & 66 Blocks
   D-Rings & Mushrooms
   Tie Wraps & Tie Wrap Mounts

Telephone Installation & Repair Tools...

Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Secret Phone Man's Tools™
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Template & Level and Low Voltage Cut-Out Rings 
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) World's Best Cell Phone Pouches with Police Style Clip
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Butt-Sets, Repair Tools, and Test Equipment
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Cable Testers, Modular Crimpers, & Pin Outs
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Installation Tools

Parts for Repairing Telephones & PBXs...
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Parts to Repair Business Phone Systems
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Fix Rubber Buttons on Phones, Remotes, TV's
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Phone and Computer Cleaning Supplies
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Amplified & Regular Handsets for Most Phones

Unique Products...
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) World's Best Toilet Seat & Electronic Bidet: The IntiBidet™

                Click HERE to see the World's Best Electronic Bidet!

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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Alarm Re-Router™   Alarm Dealer Only!
    Lets you change the number dialed from an Alarm
    Panel
  
Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Aviation Training     Training on using the iPad
    and iPhone with aviation apps in the cockpit.

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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Telco Powered Products™
   
Consumer products that get their power from the
    Phone Company, instead of the Power Company!

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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Telemarketer Destroyer™
  
Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Neuro Recognition Software SDK allows
    Thought Control
  for Voice Mail

    Speech Rec is the past... Thought Recognition is here!
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Cabullet.gif (978 bytes) Energy Conservation Products
 The PARAMOBILE is the world's first Parakeet powered automobile!

SPECIAL...  If you'd like to see our tools in use, you can
get our 1 hour "Installation Secrets Highlights" Training
Video for only $5.00 plus shipping.  You'll see lots of the
tools we sell being demonstrated.  This is a condensed
version of our 4 Hour Training Video, "Installation Secrets."


  
Mini Tool Pouch

Click to see more about our Mini Tool Pouch


Designed for the Phone Man!  With "Police Style Belt Clip."  Just the right pockets for the tools needed to pull cable, tape cables to the fish, mark cables and jacks, terminate cables on frames, terminate jacks on cables... And take it off your belt quickly to go to lunch!

Only $18.99!    •   New 1.25" Taller Version:  Only $19.99

World's Best Door Box

Brass Flush Mount Door Box

Click to see more about our Mini Tool Pouch

World's Best Door Box rings your phones when someone is at the door. Simply answer the phone to answer the door! Only 1 Pair of Wires to the door! Works at home or on phone systems.

  Controller & Surface Mount  Door Box...
Dealer: $172.90

World's Best Sounding Ringer!

The Tone Control on the Vari-Tone Ringer lets you
adjust it from a slow to a fast warble.
2 Volume settings, plus OFF.
This isn't your average shrill sounding Ringer!

Includes both a Modular Cord and Modular Jack.

Only $32.95  •  3+ at $31.95 each

Telephone Stands

Click to see more stands... Tilt your phone to reduce glare and make the buttons easier to use!

$8.49 ea • 12+ at $7.99 • 24+ at $7.49

 

Need to know what kind of Central Office a Phone Company is using?
 
How about the
address of the Central Office?

Click Here to do a CO Lookup! 
Click Here
to do a
CO Lookup!

The China Factor in Telecom

or  'Why my phones (and other things) don't work right'

Click HERE to find out how China has changed the Telecom business, and why it happened!

Read Mike Sandman's Letter
to Obama, with
the only Solution
to the Budget Deficit

    
It's Here!

Click HERE to see our
HUGE sister site with
ON-LINE ordering of 
275,000 telecom products in...

The World's Biggest Telecom Store™

Save time... If you can't find it on this site, and it's not at sandman-store.com,
it probably doesn't exist!

NOTE: sandman-store.com is a sister company that has most traditional telecom products, has on-line ordering, and sells to everybody in the US.

sandman.com (this site) specializes in strange telecom stuff, only takes telephone orders, and sells to telecom companies world-wide.

Handset Cord UnTwister
Works great on all handsets...
even handsets with recessed jacks.

NOTE: This is not like the cheap white ones that don't spin (so they're useless!).

$4.59  •  10+ at $3.99 each

TKM-6 Transfer Switches
Terminal Strip, Modular &
LED Models!

Ivory Front Style TKM-6 Transfer Switch



We Specialize in Strange Telecom Stuff!

If you need a piece of telecom or electronic equipment manufactured, use our telecom expertise, our existing products, our plastic enclosures, and short run manufacturing experience to help you get your product made quickly.

It may take us as little as a day to engineer a way to solve a strange problem, and only a short time to put it into production... even in small quantities.

Connectorized Cables
& 66 Blocks
(with and without connectors)

Click here to go to our 25 Pair Cables

Critical +   Solid Wire Cords

Click here to go to our Critical+ Solid Wire CordsCut it in-half (you get two 7.5' cords), and punch it down on a 66 Block.


Also available in
3 and 4 Pairs.

Keep some in your truck!

Consultation Phones w/2 Handsets
Work great as Translation Phones!

Red Consultation Phone with 2 Handsets

Wall Consultation Phone with 2 Handsets

Echo Stopper™

Adjustable Impedance Matcher
Stops VoIP Echo for under $50!

Click HERE to see Echo Stopper information...

Basic Installation 2  Training Video

    Click to see a 7 Minute Preview of the 6 Hour Basic Installation 2 Training Video
3 Tape Set - 6 Hours of Training!   Learn how to build a frame from the backboard up. Watch as Mike Sandman installs four different phone systems, including two VoIP systems, the Altigen PC Based PBX, and a 3Com NBX. He dresses in the cables, cross connects 66 blocks, 110 blocks, Krone blocks, Hydras, KSUs, MOH, Door Boxes, Patch Panels, House Cans, Self Amplified Horns and more, and then tests it all. Do it Neatly!

   VHS & DVD Formats Available!

Limited Time Sale:
VHS: $69.95 • DVD: $79.95 (Reg. $199.95)

World's Toughest  iPhone  Pouch!

World's Toughest iPhone Pouch with Police Style Belt Clip!

It's  not  "stylish," but it  will  protect the fragile touch
screen on modern
cell phones!!

Fits iPhones and similarly sized phones, and has our "Police Style Belt Clip" that won't fall off your belt!  Only $24.95!

Bluetooth Headset Belt Pouch

Click to see all of our Cordura Pouches with Police Style Belt Clip

Stop Losing and Breaking
your Bluetooth Headset!

Bluetooth Headsets just don't do well in your pocket! Our small Pouch with "Police Style Belt Clip" that won't fall off your belt. The World's Best Way to carry a Headset or Cell Phone!  $14.95!

Phone Line Recording and Playback Devices

Record Conversations  to your PC or tape recorder

Speed Dial  from your PC to any phone to make... The World's Biggest Speed Dialer!

• Play pre-recorded Sales Pitches & Greetings  from your PC to your electronic phone... To save your voice!

From $39.95!

Secret Phone Man's Tools™
Sneak in and out  without being recognized as a phone man!  We have just the tools to help.

Junebug... One of our parakeets
Like Birds?
See our "Birdcast" page for pictures of the  parakeets in our office, and their babies!

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Mike Sandman Enterprises, Inc.

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OVERSTOCK SALE  on Famous Name Brand  Jacks:
  
OVERSTOCK SALE on Famous Manufacturer's CAT5e and USOC Jacks!

No-Dial Phones & Hotdialers

Click to see our Long Loop Adapters

Ring Voltage
Booster II™

Click Here to See Long Loop Adapters

90VAC at 7.5 REN!

Detects down to 30VAC Ringing

$124.95 or 3+ at $112.00

Loop Current Booster PLUS

Click to see our Long Loop Adapters

$99.95 or 3+ at $89.95

NEW  1/4" Fiberglass Fish Tape with Chain & PVC Holder to
Fish Walls & Ceilings - 15'

Click here to go to our Fiberglass Fish Tapes

Cable Pulling Elbow

Lets  One Man  Pull Around Corners!

Pulling Elbow lets ONE MAN pull around corners!

Easy to put up with Tie Wraps or Beam Clamps... Easy to Take Down - or Just Leave it In-Place!

$25.95 ea. •  3+ at $24.95

Digital Meter
with a CAT5
Cable Tester

Click here to see more information on the Network Meter

DVOM with Bed-of-Nails Clips

Click here to see more information on the Network Meter

Cable Tester with Remote...
Tests for Continuity & Splits

Includes Case...

Only $89.95

3+ @ $79.95

  Economy Meter: $44.95  
  3+ @ $42.95 / 10+ @ $39.90 

16' Tiny Extending Pole
Click here to see our 16' Tiny Extending Fiberglass Pole


World's Best
Toner & Probe

• Super Loud Tone works great on CAT5!

• Bent-Nose Bed-of-Nails Butt-Set type Clips

• If you short the pair you're on, Warble tone changes to Steady Tone to verify the correct pair

• Modular Plug on Toner

World's Best Toner with Butt-Set Clips
Click on the Toner or Probe for More Info

World's Best Probe

Comes with Tone/Probe Pouch

Word's Best Modular Butt-Set Adapter:

Only $16.95!
BANJO Includes Special Mod Plugs  that fit in any mod Jack!

 

Amplified,
Noise Cancelling,
PTT, PTM &
Replacement Handsets

T-Style PTT Handset

Volume Control Wheel for Amplified Handsets

PTT and PTT Button for Cisco Handsets

Digital Impedance Bridge



The SECRET of Paging System Repair & Installation

You're Wasting Your Time Trying to Fix Paging Systems Without One of These!

sandman.com
supports the environment

All of the items on our site are available in an ecologically friendly GREEN version, for only 25% more than the regular price. Just ask your salesman for the GREEN upgrade.

Our GREEN products are identified with a GREEN dot on the plastic packaging, which signifies that the 25% GREEN surcharge is being used to reduce our carbon footprint.

The additional money you pay for our GREEN products is used to purchase bird food for our 10 parakeets. The parakeets have been specially trained to flap their wings to keep our office cool in the summer, and warm in the winter, reducing our energy needs.

The PARAMOBILE is the world's first Parakeet powered automobile!

The Taseler™ for KIDS!

Taseler™ for KIDS! electronic compliance tool for children

CLICK HERE to see the Electronic Compliance Tool for Children