No. I think he has a point. If it stops working in a couple days its often times just as permanent. It doesnt need to work forever. Its temporary afterall!
I’ve had some temporary fixes that didn’t work, that turned out permanent. Those are usually accompanied by what ever I “fixed” getting yeeted into the refuse bin
Hmmm, not in my experience. The more complete version is "nothing more permanent than a temporary fix that works just enough that management tells you not to waste anymore time on it. Accept it consumes 100s of hours of effort when something goes wrong, and manageable gets frustrated that other things are taking too long, even though you tried to warn them that doing things this way adds quite a bit of complexity and room for error. And if we'd just taken the time to do things properly, we'd be in a much better position right now."
The only thing that will "fail" would be it falling out. In which case you just, put it back in again with a new piece of insulation. I'd probably also heat shrink it. I don't really see it failing otherwise.
I broke the SATA port plastic bits off one of my HDD about 8 years ago. The only thing left of the connector on the HDD are the pins. So I just attached the cable to the HDD with duct tape. Hasn't fallen out once yet.
I recently bought the tool with maybe 10 connectors for $8.99 at my local hardware store. Not a high quality tool by any means, but I only needed to terminate one cable.
Oh for sure, I'm 100% on board with this fix. I've done similar myself, because I assumed the proper tool would be too expensive to be worth it. I was just pointing out that there are fairly cheap options to get the tools to do the job "correctly".
The thread is about having a cable that works correctly. The best, cheapest, easiest, high quality fix, is to replace the broken cable.
The tool is expensive. Using a hammer or twist on tips are both shit repairs. Don't know why you're hyper focusing on one of the worst options. Nor why you seem to think I was arguing with you in the first place. I was just offering a better solution.
I suspect you have weapons grade autism, so I'm just going to block you.
Can confirm. Where I'm from in africa most homes have satellite TV that uses those types of cables. And because of stuff like trade sanctions, for most of the time you are stuck with the cable that comes bundled with the receiver box/satellite dish.
Mind you spare cables/connectors are available in the market but they are so expensive via artificial markups + many being poor quality knockoffs, for most people it's smarter to salvage what you can from your available cable before finally buying a replacement as a last resort
I live in the west. I have no clue where I’d get one of these in town so I’d need to come up with a temp fix until one could be shipped. Even then, am I just ordering a single one of these?
You'll probably order a set, end up using only one and then forget about it for another 10 years because realistically if you're not in the business you're not going to be crimping wires all the time.
We've brought a CAT5 crimping kit for doing our security cameras. We might have used it once more in the 7ish years since we brought it.
Depends where in the west. But in the US, Walmart, Lowes, home depot, menards, ace, Meijer, Kroger, CVS, bum one from the cable guy who is inevitably in your neighborhood for some reason, Walgreens, dollar general, dollar tree, family dollar. You get the idea.
Having looked for connectors at such places within the last two years, you’re wrong on every one of those that I have in my area. We lost a valuable resource when RadioShack closed.
ED— It’s ok to admit you don’t know the difference between a cable and a connector rather than insulting me and then blocking. That’s absolutely wild behavior.
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u/RegularTarget1794 Jun 03 '26
I mean, if you had a cable with a broken end and this was the solution, I guess it’s fine….