[TowerTalk] " Most Connectors sold to Hams " rant

[Tom Osborne]

Hi Jim et al

Your right on there.   I bought some PL259's at a hamfest here last summer. 
They had a nice white dielectric and I thought it was teflon.  When I tried 
to solder the coax to the connector, the dielectric melted!  It was some 
kind of plastic.  73
Tom W7WHY


>
> John, you don't get it. We aren't talking about bakelite, we're talking
> plastic that melts when you try to solder it!  Heck, I'd be THRILLED by
> bakelite! We're talking IMITATIONS of the real thing. They LOOK like real
> connectors, but they DON'T WORK!
>
> 73,
>
> Jim K9YC