Pete, No, not wrong, and the same as most RG8 and RG213! I have several cutters/strippers-- including, as it happens, that DataShark model. Because the cutter head said "11" and not "8", I had not tried it on RG8 and just threw it in with the cheap Radio Shack cutter. I just did try it with a piece of CommScope RG8-type cable with a solid #10 center conductor--and it did a very nice job!
I am kicking myself for doing a recent cable replacement using a sheetrock knife (ugly), while that cutter sat on the workbench, But I intend to test the unit on a variety of cables, since --according to what I see on the web--the center conductor is typically 14AWG for RG11, 11AWG for RG213 (stranded) and 10AWG for solid RG8 type cables. I am curious to see whether the cutter, in RG11 position, may score the center conductor a tad on RG8 or 213. Thanks for inducing me to pursue this. (I had never heard of RG7, which appears to be a smaller CATV cable--about .32" O.D.--75 ohm Zo and has a messenger wire.) As for compression F connectors, I fully agree that this is the only way to go with RG6 cables. One caveat--match the cable diameter to the connector or it won't stay together any better than the cheap crappy crimp connectors. 73 Garry, NI6T On 1/31/2011 2:17 PM, Pete Smith wrote: > I just did, and according to www.therfc.com, they are both .405. Is > that wrong? > > 73, Pete N4ZR > > > On 1/31/2011 4:11 PM, Garry Shapiro wrote: >> You might check the O.D. of RG11 vs .RG213 before making that statement. >> >> On 1/30/2011 9:04 AM, Pete Smith wrote: >>> I may be the last person on this reflector to catch on to compression F >>> connectors, but just in case - these things are so much better than the >>> classical crimp as to defy comparison. I have never been able to >>> make a >>> good connector installation on quad shield RG-6, but with the Ideal >>> 33-633 crimper and their connectors, it yields high-confidence >>> installations with minimum effort. On the same shelf at Home Depot, I >>> discovered the DataShark 70029 cutter and stripper - for $9.95 it >>> strips >>> phone cable, Cat5-5e-6, RG6Quad, RG6, RG59, RG7 and RG11 (if the >>> latter, >>> then I suspect RG-213 as well). It is the perfect complement to the >>> Ideal compression connectors because it automatically and precisely >>> trims RG-6 family cables to fit perfectly. >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
