Hot take: I was crimping my comms cable splices wrong for a solid year

I was on a bridge inspection job in Mobile, Alabama, and my helmet comms kept cutting out. The lead diver, a guy named Chuck, watched me re-splice a cable during a surface interval. He said, 'You're crushing the whole jacket, not just the pin.' I'd been using my hydraulic crimper on the full wire diameter. He showed me to strip back more sheath and only crimp the bare conductor onto the pin. My comms were crystal clear the next dive. Anyone else have a basic tool technique they were messing up?

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jakem981d ago

Man, that hits close to home. I spent a whole season thinking my pole saw was bogging down because the chain was dull. Turns out I was putting the bar oil in the fuel tank. The motor was basically choking on it. Felt like a total genius when the shop guy asked to smell my gas can.

nina_butler1d ago

My buddy did something like the bar oil thing. He kept filling his chainsaw's chain lube reservoir with mixed gas. Couldn't figure out why it was smoking so bad.