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

Steve Maki lists at oakcom.org
Wed Jul 27 15:40:52 PDT 2011


On 7/27/2011 3:49 PM, Dick Green WC1M wrote:

> 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.

Actually they do, the Andrew MCPT-78.

We find it to work very well, and prefer it over both the drill mounted 
prep tools AND a hacksaw. On 1-1/4" and 1-5/8" though you can't beat the 
drill mounted prep tools, but they run a couple hundred bucks.

-Steve K8LX


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