[Elecraft] APP crimp tool

[Phil Kane]

On 3/31/2008 11:02 PM, Dave G. wrote:

> The more expensive crimp tool, that presumably does a better job is 
> beyond my price range considering the few times I would use it...

I hesitated a while before I bought the "expensive" proper crimp tool,
figuring that I would only use it a few times, and suffered with bad
crimps.

Now that I have used it more times than I had imagined, I sure am happy
that I did buy it.  For some reason I seem to go through bags-full of
those connectors to construct or repair power, adapter, and extension
cables for all the gear here and at several installations that I maintain.

I have subsequently bought the "expensive" proper crimp tool for UHF
("PL-259") connectors for RG-8X coax, and similarly have used it quite a
bit, most recently to make the proper cables to allow switching of two
antennas and a dummy load with my K2/100.

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402

 From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County)  Oregon