[mythtv-users] OT: RG-6 crimping question

[David]

A buddy got his compression tool from eBay for about $20 or so, and 
re-crimped his whole house after the cable company came out and upgraded 
a couple of his cables to compression fittings.  He said his cables work 
as well as the cable co's.

Just a quick search on eBay yielded several in the $13 to $30 price 
range, plus shipping:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=39803&item=5774875710&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11726&item=5775291909&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11726&item=5761849446&rd=1&ssPageName=WD1V
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=39803&item=5767036167&rd=1&ssPageName=WD1V

FWIW I wired my entire house with hex crimped RG-6 over 6 years ago and 
to be honest it looks fine to me.  However I don't have cable internet, 
but I do have DirecTV with 4 receivers and they all look perfect (no HD 
though, that might make a difference).

gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) wrote:

> just bought a house and needed some info on running my own rg-6 cable 
> for my myth setup (and cable internet) ... i've had experience running 
> rg-6 (i used to do sprint broadband installs w/ getronics), but 
> unfortunately i didn't swipe one of the nice T&B snap-n-seal 
> crimper/stripper tools we used before i was laid off ;) ...
>
> anyway, i have a tool similar to this: 
> http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&product%5Fid=64-2984 
> at home that has a crimper for f-type crimp-on ends and can easily 
> find the crimp on ends that will work with it, but i wanted to know if 
> this tool will be "good enough" or if i should get something better 
> ... i'd *LOVE* to have this one: 
> http://www.hometech.com/tools/coax.html#TH-IT1000 but just can't 
> justify it for the few amount of times i'll be running RG-6 cable :(
>
> any suggestions?  will that crimper work?  any tips on using a crimper 
> like that?  i've also seen hex crimpers for fairly cheap, would they 
> be any better?  i'd love a snap-n-seal, but i do'nt know anyone who 
> has one and it's just out of my price range for now :(
>
> thanks!
> -g-
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