Hardline Jacket Stripping Tool for .500" COAX Cable (HS-50)

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The jacket on .500 hardline is thick, tough, and bonded to the aluminum outer conductor, and taking it off with a knife means either a scored outer conductor or a jacket that peels in strips. The Jonard Tools HS-50 is a jacket stripper sized for 1/2 in (.500 in, 12.7 mm) coax such as Times Fiber T10 (T10500) and CommScope P3: a heavy-duty aluminum body that fits the cable, with a heat-treated high carbon steel blade set to cut the jacket and stop at the outer conductor, so the strip comes off clean and the aluminum underneath is untouched. The blade is replaceable, so the tool outlives its edge, and at 2 in and a third of a pound it's the smallest tool in the hardline kit. It pairs with the HC-50 coring tool, which does the inside of the cable while this does the outside; the HSC-50 combines both jobs in one tool.

Features

• Strips .500 hardline jacket. 1/2 in coax, including Times Fiber T10 (T10500), CommScope P3, and similar .500 cables.
• Heavy-duty aluminum body, hardened steel blade. Heat-treated high carbon steel stripping blade for long life.
• Replaceable blade. Sold separately, so there's never a reason to replace the whole tool.
• Aerial and underground. For hardline in residential, commercial, and industrial plant.

Where It Fits

It suits CATV and broadband line technicians stripping .500 jacket at every connector on an aerial or underground plant, construction crews terminating hardline at taps, splices, and amplifiers on a build, maintenance techs who already have an HC-50 coring tool and want the matching stripper rather than the combined HSC-50, anyone who has nicked the outer conductor with a knife and seen the corrosion start there a year later, and a pouch where a two-inch stripper and a coring tool together weigh less than a combined tool. The JIC-750 banana cutter makes the square cut the prep starts from, and the CC-120 cleans the center conductor after the core.

Good to Know

The blade depth is set for .500 jacket over an aluminum outer conductor, and it cuts to the conductor and no further; a cable with a jacket outside that size either won't seat or won't strip through. Set the tool on the cable at the strip length the connector calls for, rotate it around the cable with steady pressure to score the jacket, then pull the slug off the end; on jacket that's bonded hard to the aluminum, a second rotation is better than a harder first one. Keep the tool square to the cable, since a tilted body cuts deeper on one side, and that's where the outer conductor gets scored. Inspect the stripped section for a clean shoulder and a bright, unmarked outer conductor before coring; a scratch in the aluminum under a connector is a corrosion site in a wet plant. Change the blade when the cut starts to tear rather than slice, which is a hex-key job and the blade is sold separately. On flooded cable, wipe the gel off the stripped section before the coring tool goes on. Hardline on a CATV plant carries AC power to amplifiers; confirm the line is dead before stripping.

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