Flare Two Kinds Of Cable With One Tool: Paladin’s 1917
By Nate Bezanson
Terminating coaxial cable just got a little bit easier: the double-ended Paladin 1917 flares the brad of both both common co-ax cable types — RG59 and RG6 — so you don’t have to carry a second tool. Plus, its ten-dollar price tag pales in comparison to high-buck strippers and crimpers, so there’s no reason not to grab one if you’re doing a lot of coaxial work.
Paladin 1917 Coax Braid Flaring Tool [Paladin Tools]
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July 12th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Are you saying this replaces stripping and or crimping tools or this just a $10 tool to push the braid up a bit before I slip the connector on?
July 12th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
I’m not following what this tool is supposed to do. I install hundreds of BNC connectors a month and have used most of the tools available at one time or another and I keep going back to a razor-blade or simple non-specialized wire strippers to cut the outer jacket and the foam insulation and my ratcheting crimps to secure the connector. If all this does is flare the braid which I assume means that it pushes the shield up and away from the foam I don’t see what the big deal is. I don’t see how fumbling for yet another tool will save me any time in this case over just doing it with my fingers.
July 13th, 2007 at 12:36 am
All it does is flare the braid, so you’re not scuffing up your thumb with the fresh-cut copper ends of the braid wires. It’s no big deal if you’re only doing a handful of connectors here and there, but when you’re topping 500 per day (not an unreasonable number for a comm tech doing DS3 terminations), your thumb needs all the help it can get. Luckily, RG-59 has essentially the same dimensions as 734 coax.