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Figured out I was stripping coax wrong for 8 years
I was over at a job site in Raleigh last Tuesday helping a new guy terminate some RG6. He watched me strip the jacket and said ‘why are you cutting into the braid like that?’ I had been nicking the shielding with my coring tool the whole time. Took me back to the van and showed me a trick where you twist the coring tool an extra half turn. My signal loss has been better on every refit since. Anyone else discover a basic step they’d been messing up for years?
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harris.emma8d ago
It's funny how you can go years thinking you're doing something right then one tiny tweak changes everything. I feel like that happens in a lot of stuff outside of work too. Like I only recently found out I've been cracking eggs on the flat counter instead of the edge of the bowl. Some random chef on YouTube said it stops shell pieces from falling in and I was like well damn. Makes you wonder how many small habits we're all just doing wrong every day without ever knowing.
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