Preciva Coaxial Cable Compression Toolkit, Coax Wire Crimper with Stripper

The crimper tool very easy to use. Not only it does the job to a high standard but also saves time. Very happy with the product

Excellent product

Easy to use and gave a professional result

So I received this kit to attach an F connector that I had cut off in order to move the Virgin Media entry point into my house. As per some other reviews, it just wouldn’t work at all and the connector wouldn’t stay on after using to tool. The supplier has tried to explain how to avoid this in the pictures but it isn’t immediate obvious. So my advice is as follows: 1) There is an inner metal ring in the F connector. You are NOT aiming to push the cable through this tiny ring. That’s the first thing I struggled with. 2) The aim is that when you push the cable in to the connector. The cable jacket (the black covering in my case) needs to be pushed so it goes around the inner metal ring, not through it. The metal ring will effectively separate the cable jacket and the sheathing/dielectric once you push the cable in correctly. 3) the fun doesn’t stop here. It’s almost impossible to push the cable in, in the way that’s required. I ruined several connectors trying to do this. I then came across a you tube video where someone had posted in the comments that everyone is doing it wrong, including the chap in the video. Most of the videos online show you how to use the tools but every one I watched tells you to expose the dielectric by cutting off the outer cable jacket which exposes the shielding/strands. They then tell you to move these strands out of the way by pushing them down and around the cable jacket, so they are out of the way. If you do this it becomes near impossible to push the cable in so the inner ring can separate the outer jacket and the shielding. 4) the way to do it is simple. Once you have cut off the outer cable jacket and exposed the shielding and dielectric just go ahead and push the cable into the connector. Don’t mess with the shielding. You will need to use some twisting and some force but it will definitely through. I wore some gloves when doing this as pushing the cable in creates quite a lot of friction. It’s easy when you know how.

I’ve always hated fitting co-ax and f type connectors to cables. I’ve tried screw-on and crimped f connectors before but never Ed tried compression ones. I bought a new aerial distribution amp for my loft and decided to go for one with screw on connectors rather than push fit co-ax. This tool from Percival is absolutely brilliant, so easy to use and the compression connectors are so much better than the screw-on and crimped type. They really grip the cable well and also noticed than the screw nut fitting on these plugs are much better quality than previous plugs I’ve tried. The supplied cable stripper is also a cut above the rest (excuse the pun) of the one supplied by some other sellers of similar tools. It has a twin blade arrangement which prepares the co-ax cable perfectly in one simple action, just clamp the cable and turn the stripper tool 3 or 4 complete rotations and the jobs done. The connectors push on easily, an inner metal sleeve pushes itself between the inner and outer insulation of the cable to make a perfect connection with the shielding braid and the inner core protrudes just the right length. The plug just slips into the crimper tool and I was very surprised that so little squeeze pressure is required to close the compression ring, so light even a child could do it. In conclusion, this tool is great! Wish I’d found it years ago, it would have saved so much time and effort.

Tool and connectors feel very robust and works well if you can de-cipher the instructions. The connectors are really only for cable sizes with a diameter of 6mm and above. They will not work as well on the smaller 5mm twin cable (shotgun cable) frequently used for Freesat / Sky installations. The instruction are on a small scrap of paper and read like a very bad translation from another language. It was not clear from the instructions how to change the cable size insert (the orange block with 4 cut outs shown on the picture). In the end I found out it was just very stiff to initially slide out, and needed the help of a hammer. The instructions imply there is something marked with an arrow that needs to be pressed with the enclosed Allen key - this is not the case. The instructions also claim the position of the stripping blades can be changed but again the instructions have no clear instructions for doing this, and it looks to me as if the stripping tool may need to be dismantled to achieve this. So if you need to use this kit using the default setup as it arrives then it is very good. However, if you need to change anything then prepare for spending some time to work out how to configure the stripping tool to meet your needs.

Can't believe I didn't buy one of these sooner! Great bit of kit. Just had an extension built onto the back of my house and needed to split my TV aerial feed into 2 separate locations. Came across an F type splitter in weatherproof housing, but I didn't have any F type connections.... came across this crimping set which ended up making the job 10 times easier than the old screw on TV coax type connectors. HD freeview pictures are spot on. Detailed instructions were included. Inside the connectors is a sort of metal sheath that you need to ensure is pressed down inside the coax braided/screening layer to get a decent contact before you actually crimp it . Looking at some reviews this was probably not done... I also did a practice crimp on a piece of scrap prior to my main connection, as I didn't have much leeway if I made a mistake. There was no need though as all have worked bang on so far. The stripping tool also has an orange insert that slides out and rotates to allow for different cable sizes. This was useful for me as my main aerial coax was thicker than my separate drum of cable being used for splitting.

Having read customer revues I purchased a Preciva a coax cable compression kit but I found that the instructions enclosed were a little misleading in whhat you have to do to ensure a proper connection . I then proceded to read the enclosed instructions before even attempting to use the stripping tool understandin how to use the stripping tool I proceeded to make my first attempt. The stripping tool is excellent and and strips off the correct amount of sleeving needed with out the need of a stanley knife or cutting tools or damaging the copper core. After reading the instructions once more before making my first attempt at fitting an F coax, but it didn't work I re-read the intructions again and made several more attempts to fit an F connector but it still wouldn't crimm the cable onto the connector, until I found that you need to force the plastic sleeving around the inner wire into the plastic sleeve on the inside of the connector, you should just be able to see the end of the cable sleeve, it took 12 attempts to get the cable to fit correctly and secured. Once I found the correct way I couldn't fault either of the tools an excellent purchase.

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Great price for quality tools and cable ends. Everything in the kit worked great. Made 14 ends quickly and high quality weather proof connections. Highly recommend this kit for making RG6 cable ends.

It's very very good

Very fast shipping! Tool to put connector on very well built! The tool to strip back the coax cable had a little trouble cutting the coax cable tip off but the coax stripper part worked very well... the tip was a little hard to push on to the coax cable and I waisted the tip as it fell off the first attempt but second was successful... overall very happy with it

Questo non è certo un attrezzo che uno ha in un normale laboratori, e solo uno psicopatico come me può averlo, ma certi lavori senza sono impossibili. Crimpare questi spinotti senza un oggetto del genere, è davvero difficile con una normale crimpatrice, e mi sono stufato alla seconda volta che ci ho provato, e me la sono comprata. Ovviamente su di lei c'è poco da dire, ma sul kit è ottimo dire che c'è uno spellafili di qualità incluso nel prezzo, e tanti spinottini, che non fanno mai male. Ovviamente non funziona solo con i suoi, ma anche con altri modelli...tipo i centinaia che avevo già io da parte. I cavi crimpati, sono tutt'altra cose rispetto quelli avvitati, ricordatevelo.