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Been trimming coax connectors wrong for years until a Bell tech showed me the light
I always used to cut the jacket back with my snips and then strip the dielectric with that little ring on my compression tool. Left a ton of copper braid exposed half the time. Last Tuesday this old Bell guy watched me do one on a MDU job and just shook his head. He showed me one trick - score the jacket first with a knife, then snap it off clean before stripping. No more stray braids, no more intermittent signal issues. I had been making 200+ of these a month for almost 4 years doing it the hard way. Has anyone else had an old timer drop some wisdom on you that made you feel dumb?
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wright.lisa23h ago
Did @samjohnson catch that same Bell tech on his route too? That jacket snap trick saved me after I spent a year fighting with braid on RG6.
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