On Mon, 28 May 2007 15:56:10 -0400, Chuck
wrote:

wrote:
Sounds like you have a manly soldering
gun..
MK


Or an underpowered one which produces
too great an area under the temp vs.
time curve.

An old-fashioned iron with a high
thermal mass tip is less likely to
damage the coax.

Chuck

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Inside the coax near the other connector, the wire had broken and one
of the broken ends shorted the coax, the other broken end touched
nothing. I had to look long and hard. It was apparently just a
defect. It also happened to be the only accessible piece of coax
handy at the time. As stated above, I was just thinking I was
shorting out the coax connector, but when I cut it loose and it wasn't
shorted, i knew it had to be at the other end. However, the other end
appeared to be non-shorted. It wasn't till I took time to test the
length of center conductor that I discovered the open.


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