[mythtv-users] Off topic - can someone identify this connector please, I think it's US standard.

[Andre]

On 18 Mar 2011, at 12:08, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> 
> What?  I had a cheap little $5 stripper from radio shack that worked 
> absolute wonders.

Argghh, go wash your mouth out ;-)
> 
> work so well after being resharpened.  I got maybe 50 crimps out of it 
> before it stopped being functional.

Exactly, when you have tens of thousands to do those things are a joke, once you have learned to do it "properly" it's easier anyway!

>  If I had to make many coaxial 
> cables, I'd go back and buy a box of those things.

You can get professional versions that will be ok for a few hundred between sharpening and adjustment but no real professional would use one, especially as they adjusting for every different connector/ cable combination.

I tend to make up any cables I need at a wireman friend's place or at a customer's site, otherwise buy ready made.

Those circular strippers are a reasonable solution I concede if you are not used to such things and need 4 or 5 cables ending but for me they go in the same category as Leatherman or similar multitools, they are collectively the spaghetti visual basic of the electronics world. :-P

Andre