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Originally Posted by Slippery
Wow, good stuff! Very informative thread for me.
For me the compressing is easy. For the stripping, well wejones is right when he said it takes a lot of experimentation with the adjustments. Adjusting it so it just takes the outer black off is very tricky.
One last (maybe stupid) question. As far as the "chrome hair goes"..... is the connection still good if the chrome hairs are cut off too (cut off with the outer black) ? Does the compression tool make up for the hairs being cut off?
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I'm sure other people do it different, and different brands of RG6 are different, however I cut them off completely. When I slip the connector up so that the inside tube slips between the outer black layer and the inside insulator, it will make good contact with the shield even though you've cut it all off. Some people leave the shield wires exposed and curl them back over the black outside, so they make contact both on the outside tube and inside tube of the connector, but I don't bother doing that usually. With some coax and connectors, I do do this though. It depends on what you have there.