[TowerTalk] Nicked with lawn mower

[n8de at thepoint.net]

I really dislike coax-seal ... I prefer to use silicone seal  
(non-acetic acid stuff) and then heat-shrink over it.

73
Don
N8DE


Quoting Steve <steve65 at suddenlink.net>:

> Hi all,
>
> I have some coax laying the grass whose luck ran out. Nicked it with
> the lawn mower. An oblong section of outer jacket about 2 inches in
> length sliced off. A few strands of the braid were cut, not very many
> though.
>
> It is cable TV drop cable, direct burial, 75 ohm, gas injected foamed
> polyethylene dielectric, 0.27in OD, quad shield - aluminum braid -
> 60%/40%. Don't know what the 60%/40% means. I use it to connect a GPS
> antenna to my shop.
>
> My first instinct was to seal the nick and continue to use the cable
> until/unless it proves problematic. So I sealed the damaged area of the
> outer jacket with coax seal -- the black, sticky stuff that comes on a
> roll and everyone says not to use for weatherproofing connectors.
>
> Is coax seal an adequate method of sealing the damaged area?
>
> Would heat shrink be better? One end of the cable has an F-male
> connector over which I might get a piece of appropriately sized heat
> shrink.
>
> Or perhaps there is a better way I have not considered?
>
> Thanks all.
>
> Steve, K8JQ
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