Garden hose washers (rubber) work.
Get a pack or tear off sheet at the box stores. Cheap, use as many as needed
to take up the gap.
I use them on a one side nut of a double female feed-thru. Going through
plexiglass and don’t want to crack it, plus weather seal.
> On May 24, 2015, at 9:51 PM, EZ Rhino <ezrhino@fastmovers.biz> wrote:
>
> Guys-
>
> Wondering if anyone has experimented with rolling a small rubber O ring on
> the end of an SO239 connector before putting the PL259 on it? It seems that
> if you got the right size O ring it could seat under the PL259 and create a
> good seal there.
>
> Sometimes there isn't a lot of length on the SO239, and the shell of the
> PL259 practically bottoms out on the flange of the SO239, and therefore
> wrapping black tape around the end of the PL259 can't really get a good seal
> between the two because there just ins't enough room. (I've been using
> liquid electrical tape for this and it seems really good so far.)
>
> Chris
> KF7P
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