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Swapped from bending coax by eye to using a $20 manual bender from Amazon last month
Used to get kinks and bad 90s all the time guessing the radius on RG6, but now I crank those bends out clean and fast with zero scrap, anyone else make the switch from freehand to a tool?
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aaronroberts3mo ago
The "guessing the radius" part hits home man, its like when I stopped eyeballing how much to tighten a screw and just started using a torque wrench. Some things you just gotta let the tool tell you when its right.
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aaronroberts3mo ago
Wait, are you actually using a torque wrench on screws? That seems like overkill for most stuff, but I get what you mean about the coax bender.
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brian_hart3mo ago
Is it really that serious for most home stuff?
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troyc173mo ago
The one time I tried to guess the radius on a coax cable, I ended up with a connection that looked like a sad spaghetti noodle. My wife still brings it up when we watch TV.
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