I've been having issues with my digital television tuner where one channel (and one channel only) will pixelate so much that it is not watchable. This issue has been there for over a year and I just never had the desire to fix it. The channel that was not watchable was ESPN2 and when college football is not on, there's really not much that I want to watch on that channel. Besides, the standard definition channel for ESPN2 worked just fine but was obviously just not crisp.
This issue became much more apparently to me during this year's college football season where I was forced to watch one of my football games on a different TV in the house. I had my cable provider come out to my house for a different issue but I mentioned this problem to them. They wanted to charge me $60 to run a new cable. I decided that it was something that I could do myself.
So, I purchased this cable crimper.
http://www.harborfreight.com/coaxial-cable-compression-tool-95862.html
And, this cable stripper.
http://www.harborfreight.com/rotary-coaxial-cable-stripper-98953.html
Luckily, the stripper was already configured for RG6 cable and my first compression crimp was perfect. These are great tech tools to have and I spent less money on these than I would have paid to my cable provider.
I now have the capability to crimp RG6 and RG59 with these. This adds to my collection of tech tools. I already have the capability to crimp my own 8p8c and 6p6c connectors for making network and phone cables. I love learning new skills.
