Golay
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Someone gave me a spool of RG-11 CATV direct burial coax. CommScope F1177TSEF from what the jacket says. So I was going to use this for a couple of scanners, maybe a sw receiver, whatever. Although I'm not ready to run it, I cut off a couple of feet, and started to strip it back just to see how a connector would go on there. Just putzing around. Anyway, there is some sort of gel between the shield and the aluminum wrap. Quite the resilient type of stuff. Even with Dawn dish soap and hot water, don't really want to come off my hands.
So to all you cable tv installers out there, how do you put connectors on this sort of cable, without getting the sticky stuff all over you and the connector?
My first thought was some sort of cable wash. Would it do any harm if, after I had the jacket off, I washed it off with something like CRC's Cable Clean?
Would the CRC wash it off? I'm pondering if the wash may wick up the shield under the jacket.
If it did that, would the cable wash just dry up, not to be worried about?
If this isn't the way you do it, what do you do?
Thanks.
So to all you cable tv installers out there, how do you put connectors on this sort of cable, without getting the sticky stuff all over you and the connector?
My first thought was some sort of cable wash. Would it do any harm if, after I had the jacket off, I washed it off with something like CRC's Cable Clean?
Would the CRC wash it off? I'm pondering if the wash may wick up the shield under the jacket.
If it did that, would the cable wash just dry up, not to be worried about?
If this isn't the way you do it, what do you do?
Thanks.