Jusr received the last bits of my Farnell order : the General Lee BNC adpater for my vintage Metrix RF generator.
So excited... and quickly disappointed as well ! Adpaters do NOT fit... at all.
Looks like the problem, I think, comes from the fact that these Belling-Lee /. TV connectors, from pictures I usually see... have either the plug or socket that has 2 or 4 slits in the outer conductor, so one deforms to mate the other and make a good contact. Trouble is that in my case neither socket on the generator, nor the adapters.. have slits in them. So it's just two similarly sized solid metal cylinders... bzanging against one another. It just can't work....
If I had a Dremel (I don't just yet), I guess I could try to cut a couple slits in the adapter, see if that helps... but not even sure that would fix it, as the metal is probably too hard/stiff and it would not deform enough when trying to shove it into the socket on the generator.
Oh well, I tried...
Guess I can buy one that's slit, made for a TV cable, and try to cobble together an adapter from that,; with some soldering and chainsawing... where there is a will, there is a way, as they say !?!!
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