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Remember when coax used to just... work? Ran into a mess yesterday.
Pulled up to a house in Greeley yesterday for a standard install and found a cobweb of old RG59 mixed with some flat cable from the 80s. Signal was a joke, 15% on the meter at best. Spent 2 hours ripping it all out and running fresh RG6 with compression fittings. Night and day difference, hit 98% on the meter after. I miss the days when people didn't try to splice 3 different cables together with electrical tape. Anyone else seeing a lot of this old stuff still hanging around?
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gonzalez.rowan1mo ago
Dude, why do people think electrical tape and rusted staples are acceptable for cable? I pulled a run out of a basement in Loveland that had THREE different splices just patched with masking tape and a random wire nut. Signal was at 8% before I touched it. Took me almost four hours to rip it all out and get fresh RG6 in there with proper connectors. Felt SO good seeing that meter hit 100% after, but man, some of this old stuff is a nightmare.
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fionaa351mo ago
My buddy Mike out in Fort Collins had a similar thing last week. He pulled a 20 foot run of RG59 out of a crawlspace that was literally held together with duct tape and a rusty staple. His meter showed 12% before he touched anything. He spent three hours redoing the whole line and said it was like night and day after he put in compression fittings. I guess some homeowners just don't want to pay for a pro until the signal completely dies.
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