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Fergus Kyle

Joined: 03 Jun 2007
Posts: 291
Location: Burlington ON Canada

Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:11 am Post subject: More sought advice... electrics

Hello again,

	Once more I seek advice - mainly from hams or electronic experience

regarding BNC connectors:

	I have opted to connect RG400 coax to BNC male crimp connectors,

mainly for what I thought to be ease of installation....! BUTR where do I

find the correct coax cuttings for the ordinary male crimp BNCs for RG400

(presume also for RG58)? The dimensions seem to escape my

Googlating........or is it Googlizing?.

Thanks, Ferg 

Europa A064

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rshannon

Joined: 05 Sep 2007
Posts: 62

Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:16 am Post subject: More sought advice... electrics

Ferg,



You can get these via B&C (http://bandc.biz) or Steinair

(http://steinair.com) among other sources. At least B&C (maybe Stein)

also offers the proper hex crimp tool.



Ron

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Fergus Kyle <VE3LVO(at)rac.ca> wrote:

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		   BUTR where do I

 find the correct coax cuttings for the ordinary male crimp BNCs for RG400

 (presume also for RG58)? The dimensions seem to escape my

 Googlating........or is it Googlizing?.

 Thanks, Ferg

 Europa A064

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Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:51 am Post subject: More sought advice... electrics

At 10:07 AM 7/19/2008 -0400, you wrote:

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Hello again,

         Once more I seek advice - mainly from hams or electronic experience

regarding BNC connectors:

         I have opted to connect RG400 coax to BNC male crimp connectors,

mainly for what I thought to be ease of installation....! BUTR where do I

find the correct coax cuttings for the ordinary male crimp BNCs for RG400

(presume also for RG58)? The dimensions seem to escape my

Googlating........or is it Googlizing?.


	


   Anything that fits RG-58 fits 142 or 400. The connectors

   are available from a host of sources not the least of

   which are B&C. You can get them from these folks as well:



http://www.mpja.com/prodinfo.asp?number=5401+RC



http://tinyurl.com/5n25gv



   the tool that installs these needs to have two dies,

   .068" for the pin, .213" for the ferule. If you

   can find a tool with AMP or MOLEX dies in it, you're

   off and running. El-cheeso tools tend to be undersized

   on the .213 die. So if a tad (and I'm talking .0005")

   the ferule flashes out a tad into the gap between

   the dies.



   The safest approach for el-cheeso tools is the

   Radio Shack 278-238



http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId 62636



   This tool doesn't have ratchet handles. If the crimps

   tend to be too tight, you can manually relax the grip

   before the tool bottoms out and you'll get a nice, smooth

   hex on the ferule.



http://www.aeroelectric.com/articles/bnccrimp.pdf



   You'll also find a three-blade stripper to be really

   handy.  This tool . . .



http://aeroelectric.com/Pictures/Tools/Wire_Strippers/Three-Blade_Stripper.jpg



   . . . can be had off Ebay for really cheap.



http://tinyurl.com/6g444g



   Bob . . .



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