[TowerTalk] Tool to tighten PL-259 connectors

[Jim Hargrave]

Tim,

I use an old Tube puller. Remember when TV's had tubes?
The puller is for hot tubes and the business end is rubber dipped. It works
great on close coax connectors and removing light bulbs from open bottom
outdoor fixtures.

If you can get to the sides of each connector, an automotive Valve retaining
long nose pliers works also. It is a duck billed long nose with cupped ends
and works on PL-239's pretty well.

    73s de Jim
       W5IFP


  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
  > [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Tim Duffy K3LR
  > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 12:41 PM
  > To: TowerTalk at contesting.com
  > Cc: 'Don Daso'
  > Subject: [TowerTalk] Tool to tighten PL-259 connectors
  >
  >
  > I have several coax switches that have the female UHF
  > connectors (SO-239)
  > mounted right next to each other - in a cluster of 10 or 12
  > connectors/cables.
  >
  >
  >
  > This makes it hard to insure each coax cable with a male UHF connector
  > (PL-259) is properly tight.
  >
  >
  >
  > Do you know of a tool that is made (maybe a Craftsmen
  > automotive tool?) that
  > would allow an extended grab of the shell of a PL-259 that would insure
  > proper tight torque in a "tight" cluster of connectors?
  >
  >
  >
  > Thanks and 73,
  >
  > Tim K3LR
  >
  >
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