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Been pulling cable since the coax days and the fittings alone tell the story
Back in 2009 at a job site in Bakersfield we were still crimping on those old hex fittings with a cheap tool, and half the callbacks were loose connections from a bad crimp. Now almost everything ships with compression fittings and a decent tool, so my repeat visits for water getting in the line have fallen off a cliff. Feels like the trade got a little easier and nobody talks about it. Anyone else notice the callbacks split between hardware and the signal itself got way better?
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spencer_thomas49d ago
Did you ever read that study the SCTE put out a few years back about ingress and return path noise? They found the switch to compression dropped water related trouble calls by something like 70 percent, mostly because the seal actually sits right on the jacket instead of biting through it. I remember arguing with an old timer around 2011 who swore the crimp was fine and the tool was the problem, but we both knew that was garbage. The fittings got better and the tools got better at the same time, so it's hard to say which one saved us more grief. What the study didn't cover is how much easier it made training new guys, since a proper compression tool is way harder to screw up than a crimper.
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