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TIL my crimper was dying and I was making bad connections for weeks
Been doing residential installs for about 4 years now. Last Wednesday I was terminating an RG6 at a house on Elm Street and the connector just wouldn't grip right. Kept slipping off after I crimped it. I thought it was bad connectors at first, replaced like 6 of them. Then I borrowed my coworker's crimper and it worked perfect first try. Turns out my old crimper was slowly going bad over time and I didn't notice. Has anyone else had a tool slowly fail on them without realizing it?
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hugo_nelson7d ago
My dad's old drill did the same thing mid-job and we found the chuck was full of sawdust.
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casey3936d ago
@hugo_nelson "full of sawdust" pretty much describes every tool I own at this point lol. My drill actually stopped spinning once and I thought the battery died, nope just a pile of wood chips jammed in there like a little nest. I took the chuck apart with a hex key and found enough sawdust to fill a sandwich bag. Now I just blast everything with compressed air after every trim job, saves me the headache of taking things apart every week.
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