[TowerTalk] pull lubricant -- follow-up (installing Heliax connector

[Dick Green WC1M]

Thanks. I went back and read the registration categories more carefully.
They include "individual". So I setup and account and ordered an LDF4-50
prep tool. It was about $19, quite a bit cheaper than TheRFC. They don't
have a prep tool for LDF5-50, but in the past I've found that it's not all
that hard to manually prep.

73, Dick WC1M

-----Original Message-----
From: john at kk9a.com [mailto:john at kk9a.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 10:35 PM
To: TOWERTALK at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] pull lubricant -- follow-up (installing Heliax
connector

It is pretty easy to set up an account at Tessco


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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] pull lubricant -- follow-up (installing Heliax 
connectors)
From: Steve Maki <lists at oakcom.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:31:50 -0400
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Yes, I see what you mean. The Andrew Easiax MCPT-L4 is easily available
from Tessco, Hutton, Pace, etc, but not many consumer oriented dealers
advertize it. RF Parts has it for 34.50.

I've heard that Tessco will sell to anyone, but if not, drop me a direct
email with your details and I'll have them drop ship you one.

-Steve K8LX

On 7/26/2011 3:57 PM, Dick Green WC1M wrote:

>> If you ever anticipate installing L4 (1/2") connectors again, do
>> yourself a favor and buy an Andrew Easiax tool. It's just a clamp type
>> manual prep tool with internal razor blades that cuts the shield right
>> on top of a peak and cuts the jacket at the same time. We install
>> thousands of these connectors (usually over 100 on one cell site as we
>> build it) and once you get rolling it takes 4 or 5 minutes per connector
>> max.

> Thanks. I knew about the tool, but for two reasons I didn't buy one:
>
> First, it wasn't clear to me that there were two blades that cut both the
> jacket and the shield. Some of the descriptions implied only one blade,
> which would just cut the jacket.
>
> But more important, when I looked on the Internet to find one, they were
> only available from distributors who sell only to businesses (or, at least
> it looks that way.) Can anyone direct me to a place where I can buy one of
> these tools for a reasonable price?