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Shoutout to the tech who showed me a better way to strip coax in a crawlspace
I was out on a job in Springfield last Tuesday, working on a new build where the builder had buried the lines under like 3 inches of spray foam. Total nightmare. I was fighting with my regular stripper, cussing up a storm, and this older tech who was running fiber in the same basement just shook his head. He came over, handed me this little Klein tool I had never seen before, and showed me how to cut the jacket without nicking the braid. First try came out perfect, no stray strands. It took me maybe 30 seconds total instead of the 5 minutes of frustration I had before. Why do the newer training videos skip over these little tricks? Has anyone else found a tool or trick that totally changed how you handle a common job?
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murphy.tessa1mo ago
And YES @hayden_craig95 you are so right about having a spare in the truck because I learned that the hard way too. I was up on a ladder running a line for a security camera and my stripper just fell right out of my hand, bounced off the gutter, and landed in a bush. Took me 20 minutes to find it and another 10 just to get the jacket off without mangling the whole cable. The Klein is the only thing that works for me now, I even use it on RG6 and it just slices through clean every time. It is wild how the training vids act like everyone already knows these basics but then you are stuck in an attic picking braid out of your teeth.
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the_susan1mo ago
The Klein part number on that tool is 11055. I bought three of them after I saw one. You can get them at any supply house for like 12 bucks. It is a total game changer. Why the training videos skip this stuff I have no idea. Maybe they just assume everyone already knows. But then you end up with guys like me slicing braid for 20 minutes in an attic. Classic.
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hayden_craig951mo ago
Grabbed one after a buddy let me try his and it saved me so much headache on a rough splice job. Seriously cut my time in half on a hot roof that day. Now I keep one in my pouch and a spare in the truck just in case.
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