Where to order custom COAX cables?

[jawilson20]

Pretty simple question... I need a 4.5 ft run of siamese coax cable with male fittings on the ends. Where can I order this?

[cashoe]

I've always had good luck asking my installer for an extra cable, they are usually happy to make you one for a few bucks.
If not, Just buy 2 standard coax cables, and if you want them run together some cable wrap or tubing works nicely.

[bonscott87]

If you can't do it yourself (you can get most supplies at a Home Depot or Lowes) check your local home theater shop. I've had mine make custom length cables for me in the past.

[jawilson20]

Installer has come and gone. I would like to avoid buying the supplies myself because it would like cost more in the long run.

There has got to be someone that will do it for me?

[tcusta00]

Installer has come and gone. I would like to avoid buying the supplies myself because it would like cost more in the long run.

There has got to be someone that will do it for me?

For free? Not likely. Like the guys above said, go to a local home theater store and they ought to be able to make them for you.

[jawilson20]

Dont think I said I wanted the cables for free.

[tcusta00]

Dont think I said I wanted the cables for free.

Which is why I put that squiggly little line at the end of my sentence - the question mark. I asked because you posted your question again after you had a few suggestions.

oh, and you said "I would like to avoid buying the supplies myself" which I took to mean "free."

[ZBM2 ZAR3]

Pretty simple question... I need a 4.5 ft run of siamese coax cable with male fittings on the ends. Where can I order this?

Go to Solid Signal and enter this into their search...

Perfect Vision Custom Cable Lengths RG6 with High Quality Digicon Connectors

[jawilson20]

The supplies required to make the cable (ie bulk siamese cable, connectors, tools)

Thanks for explaining what a question mark means. Still I dont think I said that above.

[Ken S]

monoprice.com or cablewholesale.com may have what you need. Both offer great quality products at very low prices.

[armophob]

I would just get the compression kit at lowes or Homedepot. I love having the ability to make my own.

[bhelton71]

I would just get the compression kit at lowes or Homedepot. I love having the ability to make my own.

Yep - because 4.5 has a nasty habit of becoming 2.5 or 15.75 depending on how the missus and kids want to re-arrange rooms :).

[beavis]

Yep - because 4.5 has a nasty habit of becoming 2.5 or 15.75 depending on how the missus and kids want to re-arrange rooms :).

This man speaks the truth.

[Mertzen]

PM me. we can work something out.

[JeffBowser]

Seems to me, it would be far cheaper to pop into the local whatever-mart, and buy a 6 foot pre-made length. Cheap, easy, convenient, and it could have been done in a shorter time than it took this thread to populate with answers and insults.

[jawilson20]

Seems to me, it would be far cheaper to pop into the local whatever-mart, and buy a 6 foot pre-made length. Cheap, easy, convenient, and it could have been done in a shorter time than it took this thread to populate with answers and insults.

What I am having trouble finding is the siamese or dual line.

[JLucPicard]

Pretty simple question... I need a 4.5 ft run of siamese coax cable with male fittings on the ends. Where can I order this?
To me, male fittings (in the coax cable sense) means the threaded end with the pinhole in the middle. Female end would be the regular compression-type fitting hardware.

Are you actually looking for cables with male ends? I don't think I've heard of such things. If it's a matter of length extension, you would still use female fittings and get barrell connectors to join the cables.

I hope I'm mis-intepretting what you were asking for! ;)

[Ken S]

To me, male fittings (in the coax cable sense) means the threaded end with the pinhole in the middle. Female end would be the regular compression-type fitting hardware.

Are you actually looking for cables with male ends? I don't think I've heard of such things. If it's a matter of length extension, you would still use female fittings and get barrell connectors to join the cables.

I hope I'm mis-intepretting what you were asking for! ;)

This is what a male F connector looks like. I'd say it's pretty much the standard for this type of cable. I think what you're describing is the female side.

http://images.monoprice.com/productimages/2969s.jpg

[Neural762]

To me, male fittings (in the coax cable sense) means the threaded end with the pinhole in the middle. Female end would be the regular compression-type fitting hardware.

Are you actually looking for cables with male ends? I don't think I've heard of such things. If it's a matter of length extension, you would still use female fittings and get barrell connectors to join the cables.

I hope I'm mis-intepretting what you were asking for! ;)

Without getting too far into explaining, umm, anatomy, the F connector with the hole in the center is the female connector. The one that is on the end of the cable with the protruding center conductor that mates with the hole is the male connector.

[JeffTex42]

Buy 2 of these (http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10216&cs_id=1021603&p_id=3031&seq=1&format=2), and a roll of electrical tape! $6 invested!

[Thaedron]

www.bluejeanscable.com

They will make most anything you could possibly need and custom cut to any length. They also have a wide array of color choices for most cable.

I absolutely love their speaker cable and their bannana plugs.

Edit: most of their ordering measurements are in whole foot increments, but if you call or add notes to your order, I'm sure they would make a 4.5 foot cable for you. Only thing I'm not sure on is the siamese coax. They might make to singles and wrap them together. You will have the option of several types of coax. Assume you need/want RG6 for dual SAT inputs?

http://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/shopbycable/1694A.htm

[David MacLeod]

for siamese cable you can use the underground rg-11 made to length. just peel off the ground runner. would probably need to go to a local installer to ahve this made though.

[JeffBowser]

I still submit that two commonly available, and cheap, pre-packaged 6 foot cables, and some black electrical tape will be the simplest solution. However, mertzen may have already cooked something up via PM, and all is well.

[JLucPicard]

This is what a male F connector looks like. I'd say it's pretty much the standard for this type of cable. I think what you're describing is the female side.

http://images.monoprice.com/productimages/2969s.jpg
Without getting too far into explaining, umm, anatomy, the F connector with the hole in the center is the female connector. The one that is on the end of the cable with the protruding center conductor that mates with the hole is the male connector.
LOL - what a maroon!!! !rolling

I've always thought of the fitting in the image as being the female (receptor) and the other the male (the intruder) and didn't think of it in terms of the center wire determining it's "gender".

And I'm not even from Canada! :D

[Thaedron]

LOL - what a maroon!!! !rolling


Not to kick you while you're down, but ahem... "maroon" :D

[JLucPicard]

Not to kick you while you're down, but ahem... "maroon" :D
I don't know if it's a local thing or not, but in my neck of the woods, "maroon" is a somewhat more endearing (or maybe LESS endearing?) version of the word "moron".

[longrider]

Not to kick you while you're down, but ahem... "maroon" :D

Doesn't anybody remember Bugs Bunny?? - " What a maroon!" :) :)

[jawilson20]

Well no luck so far. There has got to be a way to get this made.

[raoul5788]

Doesn't anybody remember Bugs Bunny?? - " What a maroon!" :) :)

What a ta ra ra goon de ay! :lol: :lol:

[ThomasM]

Doesn't anybody remember Bugs Bunny?? - " What a maroon!" :) :)

I liked Moe better (Three Stooges). He came right out and said "moron".

Then again, what on earth is a "siamese" cable? Maybe I'm a moron...and I'm an RF engineer! :confused:

[JLucPicard]

I'm guessing by "siamese cable" he is referring to the dual cables where the two leads are connected along their length.

[jodyguercio]

I'm guessing by "siamese cable" he is referring to the dual cables where the two leads are connected along their length.

Youre right thats what it is (I had to google it). What I want to know is what the heck are you going to do with it?

[jlagesse]

Pretty simple question... I need a 4.5 ft run of siamese coax cable with male fittings on the ends. Where can I order this?


Try Altex Electronics 1.800.531.5369. They carry the cable and have a custom cable department that can put it together for you. You can check them out at altex.com.

[mrg]

I don't know if it's a local thing or not, but in my neck of the woods, "maroon" is a somewhat more endearing (or maybe LESS endearing?) version of the word "moron".

Not to get off the topic too far, and I am sure you did not know the source of this word, but: a lot of old cartoons with Bugs, Popeye, even Disney, had a lot of racist content,

It is a word used in the former French Colonies for
> mixed blood slaves... The prevailing attitude was >
that they were generally less intelligent [etc.], >
thus "What a Maroon!" is a racist slam.

1. Maroon
A fugitive Black slave in the West Indies in the 17th and 18th centuries.
A descendant of such a slave.
A person who is marooned, as on an island.


[From French marron, fugitive slave, from American Spanish cimarrón, wild, runaway, perhaps from cima, summit (from runaways' fleeing to the mountains), from Latin cȳma, sprout; see cyma.]

[JLucPicard]

I don't know if it's a local thing or not, but in my neck of the woods, "maroon" is a somewhat more endearing (or maybe LESS endearing?) version of the word "moron".
Not to get off the topic too far, and I am sure you did not know the source of this word, but: a lot of old cartoons with Bugs, Popeye, even Disney, had a lot of racist content,

It is a word used in the former French Colonies for
> mixed blood slaves... The prevailing attitude was >
that they were generally less intelligent [etc.], >
thus "What a Maroon!" is a racist slam.

1. Maroon
A fugitive Black slave in the West Indies in the 17th and 18th centuries.
A descendant of such a slave.
A person who is marooned, as on an island.


[From French marron, fugitive slave, from American Spanish cimarrón, wild, runaway, perhaps from cima, summit (from runaways' fleeing to the mountains), from Latin cȳma, sprout; see cyma.]
I was not at all aware of that.

Just to be clear, no offense meant to anybody - when I posted that it was completely meant in a self-depricating way!

And by self-depricating I don't mean - as my very young nephew asked me when someone mentioned that they loved my self-depricating humor - "Uncle Mike, what does self-deficating mean?" :eek: Poor kid literally got a face full of freshly swigged Pepsi! !rolling

[longrider]

That is interesting info. I had always thought the word was just a funny mispronunciation used by the cartoon writers.

NOW, :backtotop :)

[David MacLeod]

jeez, now that I'm thinking of it I think I'd like some siamese cable too. used the last of my roll last year and never replaced it. I'll probably do the electrical tape way though, only need it for 2 hr20 units.

[Thaedron]

I don't know if it's a local thing or not, but in my neck of the woods, "maroon" is a somewhat more endearing (or maybe LESS endearing?) version of the word "moron".

Weird thing is our necks of the woods are pretty much the same and I can't say I've ever heard maroon used like that.

[crashHD]

I've heard it used in that context. That is to say, "maroon" used as an intentional mispronunciation of "moron" as a way of exaggerating the unintelligent context of the word.

[mrg]

People argue about this, with many arguing that Bugs is just misprononouncing the word moron, like when he says nin-cow-poop. He also calls people an ultra-maroon.

[Kil4Thril]

People argue about this, with many arguing that Bugs is just misprononouncing the word moron, like when he says nin-cow-poop. He also calls people an ultra-maroon.

Oooh, don't forget "nimrod".

Looney Tunes >>>all other animated anythings.

[ThomasM]

Not to get off the topic too far, and I am sure you did not know the source of this word, but: a lot of old cartoons with Bugs, Popeye, even Disney, had a lot of racist content,

It is a word used in the former French Colonies for
> mixed blood slaves... The prevailing attitude was >
that they were generally less intelligent [etc.], >
thus "What a Maroon!" is a racist slam.

1. Maroon
A fugitive Black slave in the West Indies in the 17th and 18th centuries.
A descendant of such a slave.
A person who is marooned, as on an island.


[From French marron, fugitive slave, from American Spanish cimarrón, wild, runaway, perhaps from cima, summit (from runaways' fleeing to the mountains), from Latin cȳma, sprout; see cyma.]


I'll be darned!! And all this time I thought it was a type of cookie. :rolleyes:

[crashHD]

i think that's a macaroon.

[JLucPicard]

Weird thing is our necks of the woods are pretty much the same and I can't say I've ever heard maroon used like that.
My wodds may not stretch to far beyond my neighborhood! ;)

[JLucPicard]

<head droops, shakes slowly from side to side>

Man, I am so sorry I derailed this thread!!!

What a maroon nimrod... nevermind, I'm not going there again! :D

[jwd45244]

Well no luck so far. There has got to be a way to get this made.

Go to your local Home Depot or Lowes and have them cut you the lengths you need. Then right there you should fine a stripper / crimper tool along with a small supply of connectors. you can do it yourself it is very easy.