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grrr. terrible tv signal led me to get a new, clearly better faceplate t oreplace the existing one. went to connect it a short while ago and the inner core had been overflexed when connected previously, and snapped off. i now have not very much coax sticking out of the wall, not enough to connect it to the face plate. hence, no tv. 🙁
what can i do?! any suggestions willingly received. 🙂
Assuming the cable is clipped to the wall outside, unclip it. This should allow you to feed a little bit more through to fit the plate. Re-clip to wall when done.
cut a slot above the original plate, and then fit a new plate, put a blanking plate on the old one, or another faceplate to look posh.
Also possibly try pulling the coax gently to see if there is any slack in the run of it.
mlc, cheers - done that, pulled as much slack through it as i can, not enough. 🙁
project, cheers but the coax comes straight in directly through the wall of the house so would have to drill another hole straight through to relocate it. possibility but i'd rather not!
just add couple of inches extra cable or however much you need. You can buy inline connectors for co ax but even twisting it together will do temporarily
weatherproof junction box outside and new cable through wall?
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On the upside, you now know why your signal's crap.
Get a male and a female F-connector and a few inches of coax, and splice the cable so it's a bit longer?
If it were me I'd run a new length of co-ax from the aerial to the faceplate. Although if you were doing this because you had a poor signal this could be your opportunity to fit an inline amplifier. To keep it tidy and provide easy access for the future, I'd take the existing cable into the loft add the amplifier into the line there and then come back out with the new cable down to the faceplate.
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Or if you're convinced that the signal will be OK then add the external junction box from a couple of posts up
thanks for suggestions, guys. wwaswas, that seems absolutely ideal for my situation, will get one!
change of plan, i went for the modified project option. just finished drilling new hole through the wall, rewired bt socket through old tv hole - this very post proves that worked ok! - now about to rewire aerial point. will report back!
full success. cheers again for the suggestions, wouldn't have thought to move the socket to get extra length otherwise. nice one. 🙂