Some months ago I enquired here as to the best strategy for recovering
a used PL259, but things being what they are / were, I was unable to get
around
to that particular project until this evening, and so I'd like to thank the
person
who suggested the idea of drilling through the solder holes so that the old
braid
could be pulled out but without the need for a soldering iron (which by
redistributing
the solder might have redistributed the problem to more inaccessible
places!)

"gareth" wrote in message
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Some months ago I enquired here as to the best strategy for recovering
a used PL259, but things being what they are / were, I was unable to get
around
to that particular project until this evening, and so I'd like to thank
the person
who suggested the idea of drilling through the solder holes so that the
old braid
could be pulled out but without the need for a soldering iron (which by
redistributing
the solder might have redistributed the problem to more inaccessible
places!)


I think I did, anyway glad it worked out for you.

"Ralph Mowery" wrote in message
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"gareth" wrote in message
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Some months ago I enquired here as to the best strategy for recovering
a used PL259, but things being what they are / were, I was unable to get
around
to that particular project until this evening, and so I'd like to thank
the person
who suggested the idea of drilling through the solder holes so that the
old braid
could be pulled out but without the need for a soldering iron (which by
redistributing
the solder might have redistributed the problem to more inaccessible
places!)


I think I did, anyway glad it worked out for you.


Well, thanks agian.

But with one caveat, and that is, don't drill right through lest you
sever the central conductor making it difficult to get hold of when
desoldering it.

And thereby hangs a tale!

"gareth" wrote in message
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But with one caveat, and that is, don't drill right through lest you
sever the central conductor making it difficult to get hold of when
desoldering it.

And thereby hangs a tale!

Cut the braid outer jacket away about an inch or two behind the connector
leaving the center conductor sticking out. Put the conector in a vise, heat
the center pin and pull the conductor out with some pliers.
Then drill the holes.

Or you can do the drilling first, then heat the center while holding the
connector with the pliers and give it a quick hit near the edge of a table
and the center conductor should fall out.

"Ralph Mowery" wrote in message
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"gareth" wrote in message
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But with one caveat, and that is, don't drill right through lest you
sever the central conductor making it difficult to get hold of when
desoldering it.

And thereby hangs a tale!

Cut the braid outer jacket away about an inch or two behind the connector
leaving the center conductor sticking out. Put the conector in a vise,
heat the center pin and pull the conductor out with some pliers.
Then drill the holes.

Or you can do the drilling first, then heat the center while holding the
connector with the pliers and give it a quick hit near the edge of a table
and the center conductor should fall out.

Yes, indeed.

In the end I heated the end and used a jeweller's screwdriver to poke it out
when hot.

"gareth" wrote:
"Ralph Mowery" wrote in message
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"gareth" wrote in message
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But with one caveat, and that is, don't drill right through lest you
sever the central conductor making it difficult to get hold of when
desoldering it.

And thereby hangs a tale!

Cut the braid outer jacket away about an inch or two behind the connector
leaving the center conductor sticking out. Put the conector in a vise,
heat the center pin and pull the conductor out with some pliers.
Then drill the holes.

Or you can do the drilling first, then heat the center while holding the
connector with the pliers and give it a quick hit near the edge of a table
and the center conductor should fall out.

Yes, indeed.

In the end I heated the end and used a jeweller's screwdriver to poke it out
when hot.

Good to see a Class A(nus) radio amateur at the bleeding edge of technical
pursuit.

--
STC // M0TEY // twitter.com/ukradioamateur

On 01/15/2016 01:51 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
"gareth" wrote in message
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But with one caveat, and that is, don't drill right through lest you
sever the central conductor making it difficult to get hold of when
desoldering it.

And thereby hangs a tale!

Cut the braid outer jacket away about an inch or two behind the connector
leaving the center conductor sticking out. Put the conector in a vise, heat
the center pin and pull the conductor out with some pliers.
Then drill the holes.

Or you can do the drilling first, then heat the center while holding the
connector with the pliers and give it a quick hit near the edge of a table
and the center conductor should fall out.


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Having followed this tread , I feel it is totally unnecessary to use the
described PL259 connector ,but instead use a same function connector
with a cable entry as with an N-connector having a braid flange, rubber
sleeve and a compression fitting ,such that only the centre conductor of
the coax needs to be soldered to the centre pin of the connector.
In the UK these connectors (Taiwan made) with gold plated centre pin are
available from Westlake and others.
I never buy any other type for 10mm OD coax . They are not all that more
expensive than the connector discussed in this NG thread.

Frank , GM0CSZ / KN6WH

"highlandham" wrote in message
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Having followed this tread , I feel it is totally unnecessary to use the
described PL259 connector

Nonsense, it was totally necessary to use the available connector which
had been connected before the cable was chopped by a few feet.

It costs nothing to use something that is already to hand.

gareth wrote:
"highlandham" wrote in message
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Having followed this tread , I feel it is totally unnecessary to use the
described PL259 connector

Nonsense, it was totally necessary to use the available connector which
had been connected before the cable was chopped by a few feet.

It costs nothing to use something that is already to hand.

Penny wise and pound foolish.


--
Jim Pennino

On Sat, 16 Jan 2016, gareth wrote:

"highlandham" wrote in message
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Having followed this tread , I feel it is totally unnecessary to use the
described PL259 connector

Nonsense, it was totally necessary to use the available connector which
had been connected before the cable was chopped by a few feet.

It costs nothing to use something that is already to hand.

If I dug around, I might find some UHF connectors attached to some cable,
but if I "needed" one, I'd probably have to buy one.

On the other hand, some years back I was walking along and came upon a
pile of junk waiting for the garbage truck, and there were an almost
endless supply of BNC connectors, mostly used but some new, and sadly all
but a few were male. I grabbed a bunch on the outward bound trip, and
when I came back there were still there, so I grabbed pretty much all that
was there. That amounted to quite a bit of weight in total.

So there'd have to be some special reason to use UHF connectors for me.
The only bad thing about that find was that there weren't many female
connectors, and while the local surplus store once had some odd bits of
something that included two female BNC connectors, that wsa in the past
when I found this pile of male connectors.

Michael