I remember someone (Bill Hartman?) posting about a better way to crimp connections on RG6 coax cable, but I can’t find it in archives. I’ve been using a hex crimper but the connections don’t always hold well on the jacket.
What’s the tool and what’s a decent one for sometime use?
PJ
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Ideal makes one that use interchangeable dies...the tool isn't too expensive..but the dies can cost you an arm
http://www.mytoolstore.com/ideal/ide08-11.html
scrol to find the RG6 die
I 'm sure some telecom guy will be along soon....
once they post bail...
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, wer ist jetzt der Idiot ?
That's the kind I use for RG-6 and RG-59. Best I've found.
MP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPONTneuaF4
I quit using my crimper once I discovered the compression connectors. I bought the connectors and the tool on ebay. Tool was like $15 and the connectors were about 50 for $20 if I remember correctly. I cut off all my hex crimp connectors and re-did them. Also make my own cables.
John
J.R. Lazaro Builders, Inc.
Indianapolis, In.
It wasn't me.
But I think that what most people recommending now days is not a crimper as such.
But rather a positive seal that the tool places.
They are compression fittings.
http://www.hometech.com/techwire/coaxconn.html#20.3mm
http://www.hometech.com/learn/coaxterm.html
http://www.hometech.com/tools/coax.html
Lowes has the Ideal tool.
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
Thats what my son used when he buried cable. They are pretty neat. You can cheat with some hand tools if you are only doing a couple. I used pliers and an open end wrench.
That's what I was looking for...linear compression tool. I've seen the installed ends and puzzled over how they were done. Seems a lot more secure than the hex crimp, which seem to pull off easily.PJ
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.
I thought you wanted to rename the tool.
I thought you wanted to rename the tool.
Hmmm, Which do you like better? "squasher" or "radial constrictor"PJ
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.
Personally, I like the "squasher" but "radical constrictor" sounds better in front of the HO.
What you want is the sort of tool that "draws" the ring rather than crimping it. Unfortunately I can't offhand find any with Google, but they look a lot like a compression unit only work in the opposite direction.
Thomas and Betts makes terminals called Snap-N-Seal. There are others that are called 'compression' fittings. F-Conn makes both kinds. With higher frequencies being transmitted, making sure the center conductor and dielectric are the correct distance from each other is important and breaching the dielectric really makes life he!!. F-Conn also makes a connector that "draws" the sleeve and that type is used a lot in security/CCTV installations.
Munster Cable's crimper and ends are made by F-Conn. They also gold plate over what was originally a properly fitting terminal and the plating makes it too tight. I don't like Munster Cable. It's overpriced and not worth the money, IMO. I have run way too much of it to think differently.
You can buy ends from Home Depot, by Ideal. Basically the same thing and they have the crimping style and the ones that are like the Snap-N-Seal. Ideal RG-6 ends have a black plastic sleeve and IIRC, RG-59 have blue.
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Edited 7/7/2007 11:10 pm by highfigh