hello so this is a really quite heavy coax called ecoflex 15.
i need to salvage off the end of this one of these connectors
apart from the all the other paraphernalia effectively this little piece here has to go over
and it's a just a push fit right and i remember when you cut this it's got to be pretty accurate
to get that into there because if you just take the snips to it you
end up with edges and stuff so nice thing to remember i used to file here
obviously this is part of the ground screen and
i think i was doing it wrong as i was just pushing it in but
if we open this up i'll show you what the coax looks like obviously that screws the body together
so we can see how bad i fitted this because i pushed up the foil so my guess is
to prepare this and i haven't been on the internet to check
which i will do i'll go and have a look this should probably slide
over the top or under it
i really don't know
right well i've been on the internet and apparently i've been doing it all wrong so
let's do with this scrap one let's fit it see what happens
so we need to cut it first i don't really have anything that can cut 15 millimeters of this
how about we use we start off with a knife
see that's my worry i end up
making the core you know funny shape but anyway that's why we're doing a test we know that one
goes on first then we have a metal and be plated brass properly and this rubber thing right
so when you screw up that starts to act like a bearing and this gives you the waterproof seal
now i've got a ruler around here because it says you want nine millimeters
which is there it's not nine is it because that's a bit squashy okay that'll do
okay now we
fold the braid over by the way this is a mark one pl259 there is a
bit on the internet i think my other ones are slightly different we'll work that out
when we come to do them i'm not buying the later versions you know i'll just do what
i've got now the video i just watched he opened this out a tiny bit hang on so we'll open it out
take pressure off it you know
because we've got to slip that
oh i see we're now between the braid
and the screen yeah that's going in then what i've always normally done is used
i'll do that's a 14 mil boxy spannery thing
nice
then or maybe with scissors but these are barcode cutters so i know they're very accurate which is
regular channel now i absolutely love my barco side cutters
good enough for a demo good enough for government work is that right on there
yeah so then we need to cut the dielectric off and to me it's what normally goes wrong because
this core here is not going to be a perfect shape and i've literally had to get my file out
i wonder if that will fit
oh yeah got it on okay so in other words if i did this in the field is it going to be good
enough you know okay now the metal work bit so that one goes on there over the top of all this
well i mean that's a bit of a this is because this is old
take that out i'm sure oh no mark one's never had a little rubber grommet there today
i noticed on a video i've just watched there's a little rubber grommet here
right so now
we can
hold that and do this up with a 19 millimeter spanner
then we've got to check for
shorts and stuff and we
i do remember the original mark ones it actually said don't worry there is a tiny gap when you
finish screwing up so what we're doing right now is we're compressing that rubber grommety thing
all right it's friday today we're gonna do
this i'm planning on doing this on sunday all right so wish me luck
i should have three of these i think i know i'm doing that so let's go into the field
and fit them some people wanted to know what happened to the berry flex from messi and
paloni down at upland's farm well i went down to recover it and they'd put these electric gates in
with a massive concrete foundation and rather than bearing in mind i am five minutes away from
uplands farm and they've all got my number rather than saying hey do you want to rip your cables out
because we're about to put these foundations in no they just cut them so what i recovered
well it's just a load of bloody patch label uh just earlier patch cables to
be honest and i'm i was i was really quite disturbed about the whole thing
so
django off you go go
uh
i've got a question for you i've seen that um i think schneider electric do really lovely panels
for putting for cable entry i'll find a picture and put it on screen so what i'm thinking of doing
is literally cutting the side of the cabinet away from my outs into the field i can't do the bottom
because i really want to seal the bottom up i think the side might be you know a good idea
i'll bring it out this side here because i want it to go along there and somewhere into the field
who knows and then how do i put the coax across the field i've got to dig another blooming trench
or do i come in overhead too many i got
i've got a lot of questions and i haven't quite got the answers yet it's not that i want your
advice because i'll come up with my solution because that's the way i like it but anyway
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