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rainmaker said:

forget the super glue use jb weld it will hold anything.

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Great Idea, That sounds a bit more permanent than the superglue would be. I think thats what I am going to use (I have some in the tool box also). I cant believe that I didnt think of that.

c-ya
Chris

Epoxy shoud also do the trick (or is that what JB weld is?)

yeah jb weld is a 2 part epoxy. fixed a boat motor cyl head with it once. this stuff is tough.

partyharty said:

I am considering leaving the nut off of it and putting a bead of solder (on both sides of the backplain) to hold it to the backplain (with the added superglue of course).

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I tried that (without the super glue) and all I managed to do was get the solder all over the place, make the hole smaller and the port wouldn't fit. I spent most of the time trying to get the hole cleaned out. I just found out about these channel 3/4 modulators or I would have gone that route the first time it happened. Much to my surprise the video is just as good or if not better going through the modulator than it was straight form the port. I am satisfied.

Well I fixed it tonight, I took the backplane off, applied quicksteel (think JB Weld in a putty form) on both sides of the backplane. When that hardened I put 2 part epoxy over the top of it. I dont think I will ever have this problem with any of the coax ports ever again (I went ahead and did this to all 4). Of course by that same token I dont believe I will ever get the backplane off of it again either (unless I get REALLY creative with a dremel).

Diamond Jim I wish I had read where you said the solder didnt work before I tried it. I ended up with solder all over the place. I would get it to stick and then it would come back off with the slightest touch. So I took the route above.

The biggest problem I had was soldering the pin back to the connector. It took a few minutes (and I screwed it up a couple of times and had to unsolder/resolder the connection). I just didnt have much clearance to work the solder and the iron. In the end though it worked out pretty well.

My wife just rolls her eyes when I break out the soldering iron (esp. since many of our friends dont have a clue as to what a soldering iron is). Tonight was no exception to this.

And for the results, it added 4-10 points (depending on the TP) to the signal quality. I am guessing it has been ready to go (or pretty close) for quite a while now.

So I guess no new receiver for me (unless I win the contest) :>

c-ya
Chris