[TowerTalk] PL259 Connectors Part 2

[Larry]

A few years ago, Paul, K4AVU, was building and selling crimping tools 
for UHF connectors.  There was a product review in QST about the tool.
Larry W4LK




On 05/10/2016 08:05 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On Tue,5/10/2016 4:48 PM, Kevin Stover wrote:
>> I tried to pull one off a waste piece of coax. Connector clamped in 
>> my bench vise and two guys pulling on the coax.
>> Didn't budge. Try that with the soldered connector. 
>
> A properly installed soldered Amphenol 83-1SP makes a pretty strong 
> connection to the coax. "Properly installed" includes stripping just 
> enough braid so that it shows through the solder holes and so that the 
> coax jacket screws into the connector shell, soldering the braid at 
> each hole so that it flows well, and doing a good soldering job on the 
> center conductor. Many times, I've had to yank pretty hard on the RG11 
> attached to high dipoles to guide them away from tree limbs, etc. So 
> far, I've never had one pull apart.
>
> K3LR has developed a method of soldering the braid to the OUTSIDE of 
> the connector shell and covering it with heat shrink. That's probably 
> even stronger!  I've done that with a few connectors, but wasn't 
> thrilled with the result. QST published it a few years ago, and I 
> think it's somewhere on the internet.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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