Eric Lemmon wrote: > Lee, > > I appreciate your comments, but I can rebut them easily. I have seen too > many clamp-type connectors pull apart, usually because they were > over-tightened during assembly. Take a close look at a MIL-spec clamp-type > N connector, and you can see that the knife-edge component can slice right > through the braid if the nut is over-tightened, allowing the cable and the > center conductor to pull right out of the connector. <snip>
Every Mil-spec clamp type N connector I have ever made put the knife edge towards the red gasket material, not the braid. See the scan of an original instruction sheet: <http://testeqdocs.w4zt.com/nconnector/> 73, Tony W4ZT Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
