I actually got that from the group I talk to on 10 meters most nights,
they've been doing that since before I got in the hobby, it's really a lot
easier, I've done it both ways as well as a few others.
John Miller N1UMJ
Owner of J. E. M. Racing http://home.comcast.net/~jemracing5/wsb/index.html
AIM screen name: JEMracing3
MSN messenger: [log in to unmask]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clarence Williamson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: help with soldering iron selection


| Hey John,
| I had nevere heard of using a tubing cutter.  That's really a good idea.
|  I can't wait to try that.  I always have used a pocket knife.
| Thanks for the idea.
|
| Clarence
| On Fri, 20
| Feb 2004, John miller wrote:
|
| > I do it all the time with no problems, coax is something totally
different
| > from anything else I've done, but I do it no problem, stripping it is no
| > problem,  what I use as do most sighted people believe it or not, with
the
| > thicker coax anyway RG8 and stuff like that, is they use a pipe cutter,
you
| > just run it around and around, and if you're in all the way through the
| > jacket, like just touching the braid, you feel the difference and know,
1
| > more time around is it, I usually just tighten down the pipe cutter very
| > slightly as I go, I know I can go a little more, but I'd rather it take
a
| > little longer and be right then go fast and hurt the braid.
| > John Miller N1UMJ
| > Owner of J. E. M. Racing
http://home.comcast.net/~jemracing5/wsb/index.html
| > AIM screen name: JEMracing3
| > MSN messenger: [log in to unmask]
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > From: "Jody W Ianuzzi" <[log in to unmask]>
| > To: <[log in to unmask]>
| > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 10:29 PM
| > Subject: Re: help with soldering iron selection
| >
| >
| > | I am also interested in soldering information.  I have been told that
I
| > | can't strip a coax and solder a connecter because I can't see the
layers.
| > I
| > | never accept this excuse and I wonder what other people have done to
adapt
| > | to this problem.
| > |
| > | 73s
| > | JODY
| > | KB1DCS
| > |
| > |
| > | "WE MUST BE THE CHANGE WE WISH
| > | TO SEE IN THE WORLD"  ~ Gandhi
| >
|
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| Clarence Williamson (Telecommunications and Networking Specialist)