You can save some bucks by buying a "Little IMP" tubing bender that takes 1/8" OD tubing for about $10 at Home Depot.
1/8" = 0.125" which is very close to 0.141". Two minutes with a rattail file and Voila. -John ============ > On 3/31/12 1:46 PM, J. Forster wrote: >> Remember, there are two varieties of SMA: Those with a gold plated >> center >> pin soldered onto the center conductor and those with a sharpened center >> conductor of 0.141 hard line. >> >> The latter are near junk, IMO. > > > Only if you're planning on multiple mates/demates. The crimp on 0.141 > style works fine for the first couple mates. Good inspection and > gaging is needed to make sure you don't get little shreds of copper from > when you sharpen the point, and that your tooling got the length of the > "pin" correct. > > It's sort of a "works once" scheme (like those head bolts or piston rod > bolts that you can only torque once. Once stretched, they can't be used > again.) > > They're pretty handy when building prototypes. You get your big length > of 141 and your little bending tool, the die set and crimper from Kings, > and you can cable up stuff (once) pretty quickly and neatly. > If you take a cable off, you just throw it away (or cut the connectors > off and use the remaining cable for something new) > > But if you're going to take it apart and reassemble it.. yep.. you want > the real captured gold plated machined center pin. I use a lot of the > semi-flexible or "formable" stuff from Tensolite and RF-Coax these days. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.