I have never had a clamp up style connector cut the braid. All the connectors I use on pro installs are clamp up style and never a joiner, adapter in sight. I was taught that if you don't the correct connector GET ONE no adaptors ever. This maybe is an old idea but for 30 years has worked for me. P.S. justhad a look at the duplexer pics on W4ZT and spied a Eastpenn gel battery these I use for back up power. Cheers from down under Brett
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony King, W4ZT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 10:46 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Crimp versus Clamp Connectors > 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 > > > > > > 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/
