BNC RG58 Plug Crimp Connector and Striping Crimp Tool for RG58/RG59/RG6 10 Pack Red

The crimp tool is easy to use and a reasonable price . As a ham I don't make a lot of cables but it's nice to have the crimp tool when needed. I find that bnc connectors can be difficult to install with any method. It would be nice to have more info. about the dies that come with it and what other dies that might be available to use with it. The knife and connectors that came with work well.

Tools are good, but bnc breaks after a couple projects

For what I needed it to do, it worked. I needed a crimper that would crimp the BNC connector to the cable. It did that. The only thing is that you needed to make sure the crimper was orientated in the correct position. There is a "stepped" position. But, once you have it figured out, it worked great. Very happy with this product.

I rarely write reviews, good or bad. A product has to seriously impress me or seriously disappoint me in order for me to leave feedback. Unfortunately this coax BNC crimper kit turned out to be the latter. If I could leave less than one star (like 0 or -5), I would. Let's start off with the rotary cable stripper. First, after setting the orange block to the RG58 position and doing a test strip, I come to find that both blades are not set to the correct depths and they are too close to each other for RG58. This didn't worry me much since I knew you could adjust the blade depths with the underside allen screws. Through much trial and error, I got the blade depths set correctly - only after wasting a good chunk of cable in the process. Moving on to the crimp tool. At this point, I have a decent (but not great) strip, so I put a center pin on the center conductor and try to crimp it. Guess what happens? The center pin actually gets crushed into the crimp die and when the jaws of the crimp tool open, the center pin is actually stuck in the die groove!. I tried every thing to pry it off, but nothing worked. After close examination I realize this happened because the notch on the die that the pin is supposed to lay in was too small for it to fit snug (causing the pin's metal to get warped and push into the too small of a notch cavity). At this point I check all the other die slot sizes against the RG58 specification to see what slot I need to use for the base crimp. And what do I find? NONE of the die slots are even close to where they need to be in order to complete a RG58 coax cable! In fact, I think the only two that got close was RG174 and RG6.

This is a nice BNC connector kit including a cable stripper/cutter and the crimp tool. I believe the thumbnail showed heat shrink tubing but none came with the kit. Thankfully I have some on hand so made do.

The center pin for RG59 did not crimp correctly. I might have to bite the bullet and get a Saladin or Platinum brand.

I used it on RG-58 standard 50ohm cable. Since there are no directions I had to figure out how to align the two cutting blades for the correct distance (they were too close by default). Took a while to figure out that the two pins have to be removed to reposition the blades. For the RG-58 only the center conductor blade (the one with the notch) needs repositioning (to the outside). After doing that, reassembling the pins and adjusting the blade depths by trial and error, it worked great for my particular job. An interesting puzzle but rewarding for those wanting to simply insert the cable, turn a few times and voila!

So this thing is decent enough. It cuts the jacket well. The second blade that cuts the dielectric, however, needs to be adjusted and usually these tools come with an allen key on the back to do that, but this one does not...so just a heads up about that.