At 04:36 PM 6/21/2007, Kelly Johnson wrote:
>So, where can I find a stripper that will correctly strip my coax?
>
>I just switched to crimping about 2 months ago because I've had too
>many problems with poorly soldered PL-259's. It's gonna cost me about
>$200 next week to rent a lift so I can replace a bad feed to my 40m
>yagi. I'm 99% certain it is another bad solder job on the PL-259.
>
>I bought 20 crimp-on PL-259's and a stripper a couple of months ago
>from www.rfparts.com. I'm borrowing a friend's crimper. The problem
>is that I can't seem to adjust the stripper to properly strip the
>coax. I'm using 9913F cable. The stripper is part #RFA-4087. It was
>an expensive stripper and the documentation suggests that it can be
>adjusted and is suitable for 9913. Unfortunately, I can't figure out
>how to adjust it to fit the connectors they sold me. Essentially, I
>need 3 "strips", right? I need it to strip all the way down to the
>center conductor, then nother strip that retains the dialectric, but
>cuts away the braid and finally a third cut that only cuts the outside
>jacket. I see no way to do this with this stripper. I improvised and
>used the stripper for 2 of the 3 cuts, but then I had to do the rest
>by hand. Certainly not worth the money I paid for it. Is there a
>better one?
I have an old Paladin adjustable stripper. It has a cassette that
holds the blades in little plastic holders in slots on (as I recall)
2mm spacings. The holders are asymmetric, so you can actually place
the blade with a precision of 1mm. You use a tiny allen wrench to
adjust the blade height. Mine has three blade holders, but I seem to
recall seeing that they had both dual and triple blade
versions. They definitely sell both the blade holders and the
cassettes separately. The idea is that if you have several different
coaxes you need to strip, you can preload a cassette for each kind,
and just swap them in. Of course, since the cassettes cost almost as
much as a whole stripper, it would probably be better if you just
bought several purpose specific strippers.
I also recall that it took a dozen or so tries to get the stripper
fully dialed in, and probably half that many connectors. But once it
was done, it was a breeze to do a connector. I could probably strip
and crimp a connector in a minute or so.
In your case, I'd call the mfr of the stripper and ask for advice.
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