Hi, All: The ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) group of AMSAT is in process of building new power supplies for the ARISS project. This long-running STEM project facilitates contacts between astronauts on board the ISS and students around the world. The first of these new power supplies was launched to ISS on March 6. Only 9 more to go! Part of the project involves RF hookups to diplexers to several antennas currently on ISS. For these, we have to supply NASA-speced cable assemblies. We have cable and Huber+Suhner N connectors, but do not have the crimping tools required to mate the cables and connectors. These tools are available new from either Huber+Suhner or Daniels Manufacturing but are extremely expensive. So I am fishing... does anyone have or know where we might find one of the following connector crimping sets that we could either borrow, rent or buy? The connectors (special N crimp) are Huber Suhner 11_N-50-4-63/133_NE, item # 22652069, for cable S16 (SX_04172_B-60). We can buy these connectors from Mouser, no problem. The crimping tool is the problem: H+S kit 76Z-0-0-51 insert set for small tool 76_Z-0-4-51 and small installation tool 75_Z-0-0-50. The alternative (but not interchangeable) tool kit is Daniels Manufacturing DMC1525 (in this kit, we only need the Y1682 die set and HX4 crimp tool). Does anyone know where we might be able to get the use of one of these sets? Thanks! Ed Krome K9EK ARISS Mechanical Engineering
I have a lot of crimping tools, but, not these. Have you tried to get a donation or loan of a tool from Daniels?
73 Glenn
On 6/4/2020 4:41 PM, EDWARD KROME via AMSAT-BB wrote:
Hi, All: The ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) group of AMSAT is in process of building new power supplies for the ARISS project. This long-running STEM project facilitates contacts between astronauts on board the ISS and students around the world. The first of these new power supplies was launched to ISS on March 6. Only 9 more to go! The connectors (special N crimp) are Huber Suhner 11_N-50-4-63/133_NE, item # 22652069, for cable S16 (SX_04172_B-60). We can buy these connectors from Mouser, no problem. The crimping tool is the problem: H+S kit 76Z-0-0-51 insert set for small tool 76_Z-0-4-51 and small installation tool 75_Z-0-0-50. The alternative (but not interchangeable) tool kit is Daniels Manufacturing DMC1525 (in this kit, we only need the Y1682 die set and HX4 crimp tool). Does anyone know where we might be able to get the use of one of these sets? Thanks! Ed Krome K9EK ARISS Mechanical Engineering
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