mm wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

They are shipped from the factory that way. It doesn't take much to
damage the pot metal most splitters are cast from. Drop one and let it
land on one of the ports. There is a good chance that you will bugger
the threads, or crack the casting. Anything bulk shipped without either
cardboard dividers in the tray and soft layers of single corrugated
cardboard or the plastic caps was automatically rejected by the CATV MSO
I worked for. If you toss them into the bins in a installer's truck
without protection, a lot get damaged.

That makes me feel better. Thanks.


You're welcome. It was part of my job to test samples from multiple
vendors. The lower quality stuff was usually obvious, before it ever
hit the test equipment.


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