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
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----- 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
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