Old timer told me I was crimping coax wrong for years

I was working on a King Air avionics bay last spring, and this retired FAA guy walks by and says 'you're gonna have a bad time with those crimps.' He showed me I was stripping way too much jacket off, like 3/8 of an inch when it should have been 1/4. After I fixed my technique, my SWR readings dropped by almost 0.2 across the board. It made me wonder what other bad habits I picked up, you know? Has anyone else had a random stranger totally change their wiring game?

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the_oscar4d ago

Man, that's the kind of thing that sticks with you... how'd you even end up talking to a retired FAA guy in the first place? Was he just lurking around the hangar?

hayden1444d ago

@the_oscar pretty much, yeah. Old guy wandered in looking at a Cessna, next thing I know I'm getting a 45-minute lecture on why the FAA hates skywriting.