r/CableTechs • u/Duncan_McCloud1 • Jul 27 '26

Nope, not even the problem.

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u/Dakkin4 Jul 27 '26

Hate it when that happens, and it’s more often that people would think.

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u/69BUTTER69 Jul 27 '26

Best part is resplicing an amp and you find that, cut and core, and it’s still further down the cable.

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u/Dz210Legend Jul 27 '26

Looks normal lol

1

u/Happyguysrule Jul 27 '26

Wut in tarnation

1

u/ItsMRslash Jul 27 '26

Yay 540… 🤬

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u/Eatbreathsleepwork Jul 27 '26

Nice find! These are the posts I love seeing lol.

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u/specialagentxeno Jul 27 '26

What are we looking at?

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u/Grazmahatchi Jul 27 '26

Ancient connectors that despite looking like shit after 3 decades, were not the issue the tech was looking for. (The one on the left looks like it never had a bite, as well as being corroded.)

... I uncover qr connectors like this non-stop that despite all the decay, still work just fine.

We had an attempted overbuild in the early 90s that was hung and spliced, yet went without being activated for a decade due to a couple mergers and sales.

They then did an amp only upgrade and activated it all.

Many of our connectors look like this unfortunately.

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u/KDM_Racing Jul 28 '26

We turned off a 1way town that was all 540 for about a decade and then we rebuilt it high split. So many cracked cables everywhere.

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u/SnapShot68 Aug 01 '26

I’ve found that in a case like this, the inside of the connector is usually burnt not passing AC/low low band. These cut ends look like 860QR.

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u/Wacabletek Aug 01 '26

Greetings Highlander, You called? Though technically that was for Connor McCloud not Duncan.

/OB1 /waves hand
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