Cable guy help

[Little6pack]

Guys I have a long cable run in my basement to my family room.
The wire is exposed for me to access along the sill.

I want to cut it & place a drop to a TV in the basement.

I have seen splitter (3way) which is fine. BUT how do I make
the end connectors for the main line when I cut the wire?

Do they make possibly a screw in tap/connector that would pinch the copper inside the cable coax so I won't need to cut the coax?

Or is that my only option cutting it & placing connectors, Any special tools needed, can stuff be bought at R Shack?

 

[salvageV6]

You have to cut it and put on some new connectors.

If you have wire strippers, yellow handled cheap ones will work, or if you are good you can cut the insulations and wire with diagonal cutters about 4-6" size ones.

Radio Shack has screw on F connectors that may work out for you and don't require crimping.

They are acceptable for installations where the wiring will never be touched, moved, jiggled, etc.

I think they kinda suck acutally but I have hex crimpers.

They should be able to hook you up at the store.

 

[tta1401]

This is kinda up my alley. I had to install a cable sytem for a air base over in the desert. You know those guys w/ the brass have to have their CNN! They do have screw-on type connectors. Really easy to put together. There are 3 layers to most rg6 coax cable wire that goes around the inner conductor (copper wire). Outer rubber black part, ground wire (mesh type stuff), and the plastic guy that goes around the conductor. Just strip about 1" or maybe a little less of the outer sheathing (black part). After that, measure about half way up that cut and cut the rest of it off (ground mesh and plastic dude) around the conductor. Now you should have about 1/2" of bare conductor and then 1/2" of plastic dude and ground mesh below the bare conductor. Now you fold the ground mesh down over the cable. This is what the connector is going to screw on to. Make sure you get EVERY piece of ground wire away from the conductor or this will degrade your picture! Lots of people who do this for themselves and just slop it together and wonder why their picture sucks. I hope all that made sense. Also, if you just want to drop one TV, then all you need is a 2 way splitter. 1 input and 2 outputs. Just remember this, if you used a 3-way splitter, one of those outputs is only 1/3 of the input to that splitter. 4 way splitter= 1/4 of the input and so on and so forth. The splitter splits it regardless if you are not using one of the outputs unless you had a terminator. There are differsent types of splitters that allow you to change that but that is something along a different line.

HTH

 

[Little6pack]

All good advice

THX You