There is a silicone type kit that you can buy or homebrew. I got some stuff
from a telephone repairman once and it's a plastic 2 piece rig that snaps
over/around a connection or repair and it flooded with some silicone type
substance. I believe I've seen it at one of the big box stores (??) but I
cut my cable feed when trenching for cables to the tower and I reinstalled
the coax and used a barrel connector but slide a piece of PVC flooded with
silicone caulking, I guess-t-mated 6" on either side and it's been under
ground for 4 years now, so far it's ok!
Goood luck
John
KO4XJ
-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jon
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2014 2:41 PM
To: TowerTalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Nicked with lawn mower
I would have wrapped it in good electrical tape followed by the coax seal,
then another layer of tape.
Possibly then a layer of the self sealing silicone tape followed by another
layer of electrical tape...
Plan B would be to replace the coax run.
73,
Jon
KD5SFA
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:00 PM, <n8de@thepoint.net> wrote:
> I really dislike coax-seal ... I prefer to use silicone seal (non-acetic
> acid stuff) and then heat-shrink over it.
>
> 73
> Don
> N8DE
>
>
> Quoting Steve <steve65@suddenlink.net>:
>
> Hi all,
>>
>> I have some coax laying the grass whose luck ran out. Nicked it with
>> the lawn mower. An oblong section of outer jacket about 2 inches in
>> length sliced off. A few strands of the braid were cut, not very many
>> though.
>>
>> It is cable TV drop cable, direct burial, 75 ohm, gas injected foamed
>> polyethylene dielectric, 0.27in OD, quad shield - aluminum braid -
>> 60%/40%. Don't know what the 60%/40% means. I use it to connect a GPS
>> antenna to my shop.
>>
>> My first instinct was to seal the nick and continue to use the cable
>> until/unless it proves problematic. So I sealed the damaged area of the
>> outer jacket with coax seal -- the black, sticky stuff that comes on a
>> roll and everyone says not to use for weatherproofing connectors.
>>
>> Is coax seal an adequate method of sealing the damaged area?
>>
>> Would heat shrink be better? One end of the cable has an F-male
>> connector over which I might get a piece of appropriately sized heat
>> shrink.
>>
>> Or perhaps there is a better way I have not considered?
>>
>> Thanks all.
>>
>> Steve, K8JQ
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