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My coworker damaged it and severed some wires. It was an interesting fix. The large wires had a center wire with a shield wire woven around it. Hopefully it correctly fixes the issue with the equipment.

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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

why didn't you stagger the joints, if you make it so that no joint is in the same point in cable then it's slimmer, more elastic and slightly less prone to failure

considering that you have there a bunch of coax cables in single wrap, you might have some problems with rf signal leakage between them if there are gaps in shield of these coax cables that line up

it also looks like there's shield over entire cable, it would be a good thing to keep it continuous

if it's some sensitive rf equipment, especially working at microwave frequencies, then keeping wire diameter and insulator thickness in these coax cables is important, which in practice means you should put there two coaxial plugs and a barrel connector between them. at which point it probably makes more sense to replace cable entirely