Appreciation post: I was crimping those tiny coax connectors wrong for a solid year until a guy at the hangar in Mobile pointed out my tool was set for the wrong gauge.

I was getting a lot of signal loss on my tests and just blamed the cable, but he asked to see my crimper and showed me the tiny mark for the RG-400 setting I'd completely missed, so has anyone else had a simple tool setting mess up a bunch of work before you caught it?

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anthony_sullivan687d ago

Tell me about it. @hernandez.gavin is right, you start to trust the tool too much. I must have made two dozen bad coax ends before I realized my crimper had a loose die that was shifting on me. Felt like a total idiot. Now I check and re-check that thing like it's going to bite me.

hernandez.gavin21d ago

Man, how many times have we all been there? I used to think crimpers were basically foolproof, just squeeze and you're good. But after I messed up a whole batch of network cables at my old job because the die was for the wrong type of connector, I learned to triple-check those little markings every single time. It's crazy how such a tiny detail can ruin so much work.

elliot_lee21d ago

Ugh, that exact thing wasted my whole afternoon once.