[TowerTalk] Coax stripping tool for crimp connectors

[Gary Johnson]

> Does anyone offer a coax stripping tool to prepare Buryflex for PL-259 crimp
> connectors? The DX Engineering coaxial cable stripping tool does a nice job
> for solder connectors. Looking for something like that for crimp connectors.
>
>
As a total coincidence, I spent a couple hours yesterday looking into 
this very subject. Looking VERY carefully at the recommended stripping 
dimensions of two crimp-type PL-259 connectors (Amphenol 182130-10 and 
RF Industries RFU507-SI), and similarly looking VERY carefully at the 
dimensions of all the stripping tools I could find, none of the tools 
matched the requirements. The error was always in the amount of exposed 
dielectric: They never left enough, and came up short by 3 to 5 mm, 
depending upon the connector/stripper combo. Whether that's a disaster 
or not, I'll leave open to opinion. Maybe just jamming the whole 
business together a few mm tighter before crimping is "good enough."

Required bare dielectric
182130-10   8.8 mm
RFU507-SI  6.8 mm

Stripper's dielectric:
RFA-4400-02  5.2 mm
DXE (Platinum Tools) 15035  4.0 mm
RFA-4087  4.0 mm
Terrawave HT-32253   4.0 mm
... and several others were also 4 mm.

  Note: N connector require totally different dimensions and in fact 
there are strippers that match them perfectly.
Looking forward to either an announcement by DXE, or other options from 
this group.

Gary NA6O