How To Make Coax Cable Ends

You can tell when the stripper is finished when you don t feel resistance anymore when spinning.

How to make coax cable ends.

Before you begin read any wiring instructions that come with your connectors. A coaxial cable coax brings tv and internet signals into homes and other buildings. Barrel connectors at the end of these cables make it easy to securely connect them to equipment. Place the end of the coax cable into the stripper so that the end of the cable is flush with the far end of the stripper.

Cutting the coax cable removing the outer casing pushing back the braided wire putting the end on and crimping. When the connector is properly in place squeeze the handle to crimp the connector onto the cable. Coaxial cable has many uses. Strip the wire and expose its inner conductor.

Installing crimped cable connectors on your networking cables is a job you can easily do yourself. If you have a coax cable without a connector installing your own is a simple task. Instead using a 7 16 in. This guide will show you how to crimp the connectors on both types.

These cables need connectors on the end to hook up to appliances like tvs and transmit signal. Donate to my channel thanks. As with end coaxial cable connectors the threaded coaxial cable connectors on wall jacks computers and tvs must provide a solid path for the signal. Wrench turn the nut an extra quarter turn to snug up the connection.

Clamp the stripper down on the cable and spin it around the cable two to three times. This is a common technique for coaxial cables and unshielded twisted pair utp cables often called an ethernet cable. Most people finger tighten these connections but that just isn t good enough. Strip the end of the coax cable.

But they are less common now that high definition and ultra high definition televisions make prevalent use of hdmi fiber optical and ethernet cables for many of their connections. The first slot of the tool is for rg 59 cable and the second slot as shown is for rg 6 coax cable.