Gaobige Coaxial Compression Tool Coax Cable Crimper Kit Adjustable RG6 RG59 RG11 75-5 75-7 Coaxial Cable Stripper with 10 Pieces F Compression Connectors - Blue

This is great for the at-home DIYer. Cutter worked well to strip the coaxial, gotta spin the fittings on quite a bit to get the coaxial seated correctly, then the compression tool works real nicely. not difficult at all to use and doesn't require much hand strength.

Works as well as what cable techs use

I am new at this, so I had no idea how to correctly fasten a connector on the end of coax with a crimping tool. I had done it before with screw on connectors from this hardware, but this time I needed a strong permanent connection that wouldn't pull out. I chose this set because I liked the video clarity and the kit at a good price. I started in on attaching a connector to the cable from Xfinity that came into my house. Since I was shortening it, I used the cutoff piece to practice. It doesn't say what size the cable is on the outside of the cable, so I did a lot of searching for how to tell. Most of the charts for coax cable dimensions are for all the thousands of uses of different kinds of coax, not the one I had in my hands. Finally I found that rg6 was close to 7mm and my Xfinity cable was that size. OK. It took me several tries to get the feel of the stripper. I had to make lots of mistakes, turning it too many times, or too few times, and learning to attend to the vibration when the cutters hit the strands of the wire braid. I found that it was true that about 4 turns cut the dielectric cover nicely without a nick; it came off easily. Sometimes the scoring for the cover didn't come off. I found it was easy to insert the cable back in the cutter and line the cutter up with the dielectric cut and turn a bit more. That seemed to be the best strategy for not cutting the braided wires. Then I could gently push all those little wires back over the cable covering and separate the individual strands with the tip of a knife to get those wires bent back without overlapping each other and making it too thick. The videos I watched showed people discarding the aluminum wrapper around the dielectric, but that aluminum was glued down on my cable. I could only get it off by cutting it off, which was very difficult to do with my Exacto knife. (Later I discovered you can leave it on. No place on the internet ever said such a simple thing like that.) I went through four of the included connectors trying to get them on. The lesson was that these connectors did not fit my wire, even though it measured 7mm. I couldn't push it in all way so the tip of the white dielectric was flush with end of the tube, no matter how hard I tried. My hands were so tired they cramped. I quit and decided I was missing key information. After several hours of searching I learned that there were different types of Rg6, quad and dual. Mine wasn't quad because the braid wasn't gathered in fours. It was dual, so slightly larger than the connectors in this kit. Maybe many of you out there don't have Xfinity provided exterior cable, but I am sure I am not alone. Why is there NO information about this? I ordered the 18mm PPC Belden connectors which were just a tiny bit larger. I could push them in fully if I worked hard enough. The other piece of information this novice needed was the setting of the compression tool. It's easy, but not clear in the directions. Set a connector in that saddle and adjust the bolt and stop close enough into the end of the connector so you can still get it easily in and out. There is more travel in the clamping lever than is needed to drive the crimping ring home. (Look at how easy it is to write that single sentence.) I still don't know why it was so hard to learn when the process is actually very simple, when it works.

Worked well. Found that spinning the stripping tool more then a couple times cut some of the ground wires off. Too much force on the crimping tool will jamb the nut. Can usually be freed by rotating the tightening nut with a 7/16" wrench.

This is a decent little product. It'll do what you need to do. Being in this profession from years back I was skeptical. If it didn't say Klein tools I was not inclined to buy it. I misplaced my personal crimper and had to get a remodel done on a house so I ordered this gadget. It worked better than expected and would buy it again. Be mindful the fittings are a little tricky and temperamental. I ended up using some old fittings that I had before which went on perfectly as I always had. Pay close attention how they want you to do that fitting and it should work for you. Always cut extra length as you may need it for a service loop. A service loop is just an extra length of cable that's left inside the wall to be used in case of fitting ever has to be cut off. Don't cut it too close so you'll kick yourself in the teeth, wishing you had that extra room. I would recommend the product and I hope it works well for you Blessings to you all.