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You cannot get away from the fact that the plugs are absolutely not designed or recommended to be used on solid cables. Solid cables are designed for a fixed installation, installed with an IDC outlet on the end, then they stay put. Fitted with plugs the cables are expected to allow for some movement. You would not use a solid cored cable on your vacuum cleaner, why expect to get away with a solid cored CAT 5 to your printer or laptop?

None of what you mention above makes a jot of difference. The sharp pins of the plug are intended to pierce the insulation and force their way through the middle of the multiple strands of a flexible cable. Using solid cables in the plugs, means the insulation is pierced, the sharp pin glances past the solid core making a much more tenuous connection than the plug is designed to make. Using miss- matched cable and plugs is hardly a professional way to do any job.
Sorry Harry but I totally disagree with you, for a start you are obviousely ignorant of the design of the proper plugs.
I have been buying a selection of different plugs for years for different cables and just looked to see what's 'in stock' at the moment, I find I have plugs for solid: Cat5, cat6, flat D and ribbon. That's actually 7 different 8 pin plugs available for solid conductors. I didn't bother looking at my stock of stranded varieties or 10, 6, 4 or 2 pin
If you were daft enough to install solid with plugs here, you would find yourself either not getting paid, or invited to return and do the job properly.

I don't know where 'here' is but unless your pedantic ideas were in writing in the contract and I deemed a plug on solid were the correct option then that is what I would install and depending on the value I would soon make sure payment were forthcoming.

Can I suggest you get your facts right before making fatuitous statements on a public forum.
 

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