On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Orcena Lyle <olyle@usfamily.net> wrote:
> I bought a coax stripper at Radio Shack but haven't used it yet. It does
> RG6/59 cables. It looks similar to the stripper made for TV coax.
For RG6/59 and CATV connectors (F connectors) I bought tooling from
solidsignal.com that I'm happy with. I especially like the Digicon F
connectors. One word of caution about those: don't try to install an
F connector for RG6 quad shield on an RG59 cable. Learned that the
hard way.
> My neighborhood Radio Shack
> tells me that all the Radio Shack stores are going to be more friendly
> toward geeks and are stocking more electronic parts and tools and such.
We'll see. I went down to "The Shack" (as they have rebranded
themselves) looking for ferrite beads and had to explain what they
were to the man at the counter.
--
Charles M. Coldwell, W1CMC
"Turn on, log in, tune out"
Winchester, Massachusetts, New England (FN42kk)
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