Re: [TowerTalk] Two tools to tighten PL-259 connector shells

["Rick Karlquist" <richard@karlquist.com>]

They make a special tool for tightening F connectors
in tight spaces (remember the fun we used to have
putting them on VCR's :-).  It is a box wrench with a gap
in it to let the cable through.  Unlike ordinary box
wrenches, the handle exits axially, not radially.
If you soldered a nut to a PL259, then you could make a
tool like this to tighten it.  A half inch or 15/32 inch
panel nut might work.  (The nut has to be large enough
to slip over the cable.)  Unfortunately, you can't
retrofit a nut on an existing cable without redoing one end.

Rick N6RK

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