Re: Connecting 16th century antenna wire to 21st century coax

["B Fuhrmann" <b-fuhrmann-usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> bruno.lerer@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Thanks everyone for the info.  One piece is still missing (at least for
>> me) - how do you actually strip a clean cut twin-lead wire?


"Ken Weitzel"  wrote ...
> Back in the good old days (around the time sunshine was
> invented) I would have done it in your house by putting
> the lead flat on top of something hard and not important...
> the top of my caddy, perhaps).  Then with a knife I'd cut
> a slit clean through it alongside each of the wires for an
> inch or so.  Next fold back the resulting center piece and
> cut it off.  Now you're left with what for all practical
> purposes is just two separate wires, easily strippable with
> side cutters or your knife.

BINGO

Other than dedicated strippers (they used to make them), that is the easiest
method.