Looking for suggestions for a good crimp tool for installing coax
connectors. It will primarily for BNC connectors on RG-174, 58 and 59
cables. Although the RG-8 cable family capability would be nice too.

I do wish to avoid being a captive customer in that brand X crimp tool
only works well with brand X connectors.

And, of course, looking for the best bank for the buck.

Thanks,

Danny

Solder??

Danny Richardson wrote:

Looking for suggestions for a good crimp tool for installing coax
connectors. It will primarily for BNC connectors on RG-174, 58 and 59
cables. Although the RG-8 cable family capability would be nice too.

I do wish to avoid being a captive customer in that brand X crimp tool
only works well with brand X connectors.

And, of course, looking for the best bank for the buck.

Thanks,

Danny

Once a month or a thousand times a day? It makes a difference. I do about
ten a month, and a plain old automotive crimp terminal tool ($15) works just
fine. Some have been in service for ten years with nary a failure. Put a
dab of RTV over the crimp and coax, then shrink some sleeving down over RTV,
crimp, & coax to make a hermetically sealed connection.

Jim



"Danny Richardson" wrote in message
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Looking for suggestions for a good crimp tool for installing coax
connectors. It will primarily for BNC connectors on RG-174, 58 and 59
cables. Although the RG-8 cable family capability would be nice too.

I do wish to avoid being a captive customer in that brand X crimp tool
only works well with brand X connectors.

And, of course, looking for the best bank for the buck.

Thanks,

Danny

"Danny Richardson" wrote in message
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Looking for suggestions for a good crimp tool for installing coax
connectors. It will primarily for BNC connectors on RG-174, 58 and 59
cables. Although the RG-8 cable family capability would be nice too.

I do wish to avoid being a captive customer in that brand X crimp tool
only works well with brand X connectors.

And, of course, looking for the best bank for the buck.

Thanks,

Danny

IF, 75 ohm BNC is okay .....for your specific application ...
then I would seriously consider the Snap-N-Seal (20.3mm) or Stirling
(19.3mm) compression connectors and tools. Note the size difference. USA
CATV operators seem to have adopted one of these 2 approaches nationally.

Connectors are available as BNC, F, RCA.
https://www.tselectronic.com/thomandbetts/sns6bnc.html

https://www.tselectronic.com/thomand...sns1p6rmx.html

Supported RG-59/U; RG-6/U (various shield versions) and RG-11/U
https://www.tselectronic.com/thomandbetts/sns.html

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Danny Richardson wrote:

Looking for suggestions for a good crimp tool for installing coax
connectors. It will primarily for BNC connectors on RG-174, 58 and 59
cables. Although the RG-8 cable family capability would be nice too.

I do wish to avoid being a captive customer in that brand X crimp tool
only works well with brand X connectors.

And, of course, looking for the best bank for the buck.

Thanks,

Danny

try to ebay search crimp tools there is usually a few companies that
sell a kit w/a ratachted crimper that has changable dies and include a
die or 2 2 dies should cover what you need sometimes the kit will
also include a few crimp lugs, which you might not need

cost for a brand new one w/2 dies cost me 25usd they will crimp
any standard connector that mates w/the standard dies

if you only need to make one or 2 radio shack and simular places have
crimp tools that are either plier type or that look like a ratached
tool but aren't actually ratached at radioshack you'll sometimes pay
close to what a ratached unit cost from above their plier looking
one is pretty cheep

if you don't make many they do sell connectors that don't need crimpn'


good luck

Dave wrote in
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Solder??


I know how you feel. I felt the same way after hearing there would be
5wpm Extras.



Danny Richardson wrote:

Looking for suggestions for a good crimp tool for installing coax
connectors. It will primarily for BNC connectors on RG-174, 58 and 59
cables. Although the RG-8 cable family capability would be nice too.

I do wish to avoid being a captive customer in that brand X crimp tool
only works well with brand X connectors.

And, of course, looking for the best bank for the buck.

Thanks,

Danny

"Dave" wrote in message
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Solder??

Danny Richardson wrote:

Looking for suggestions for a good crimp tool for installing coax
connectors. It will primarily for BNC connectors on RG-174, 58 and 59
cables. Although the RG-8 cable family capability would be nice too. I do
wish to avoid being a captive customer in that brand X crimp tool
only works well with brand X connectors.

And, of course, looking for the best bank for the buck.

Thanks,

Danny

I agree, unless you do a lot of connectors soldering is the best way to go.
It doesnt take long at all to get proficent at making good soldered on
connections. Crimp on connections can look good but be awful. A few years a
go a guy installed some equipment at work that had over 30 BNC connections.
He got an award for the installation and I got 50 hrs of overtime for going
back and really making it work right. Most of the work was repairing the
crimp on BNC connectors.. The problem with the connections, he used a crimp
tool that was about worn out.

Slow Code wrote:
Dave wrote in
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Solder??


I know how you feel. I felt the same way after hearing there would be
5wpm Extras.



Danny Richardson wrote:

Looking for suggestions for a good crimp tool for installing coax
connectors. It will primarily for BNC connectors on RG-174, 58 and 59
cables. Although the RG-8 cable family capability would be nice too.

I do wish to avoid being a captive customer in that brand X crimp tool
only works well with brand X connectors.

And, of course, looking for the best bank for the buck.

Thanks,

Danny



wait till hf is filled with marqueer extras

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Slow Code wrote:
Dave wrote in
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Solder??


I know how you feel. I felt the same way after hearing there would be
5wpm Extras.



Danny Richardson wrote:

Looking for suggestions for a good crimp tool for installing coax
connectors. It will primarily for BNC connectors on RG-174, 58 and
59 cables. Although the RG-8 cable family capability would be nice
too.

I do wish to avoid being a captive customer in that brand X crimp
tool only works well with brand X connectors.

And, of course, looking for the best bank for the buck.

Thanks,

Danny



wait till hf is filled with marqueer extras


****. You just made halloween scary.

SC

AMP makes such, but be forwarned that their
connectors, and tool aint cheap! But, they work
great . They also make them for Pl259's . They
quite proud of their products.
http://www.amp.com/ Jim NN7K



Jimmie D wrote:
"Dave" wrote in message
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Solder??

Danny Richardson wrote:

Looking for suggestions for a good crimp tool for installing coax
connectors. It will primarily for BNC connectors on RG-174, 58 and 59
cables. Although the RG-8 cable family capability would be nice too. I do
wish to avoid being a captive customer in that brand X crimp tool
only works well with brand X connectors.

And, of course, looking for the best bank for the buck.

Thanks,

Danny