What to do with old cable-TV coax?

[Blast it Tom!]

When we cut the cable, we were left with quite a bit of coax, basically shielded 2 conductor wire that doesn't coil well.

Scrap it, or is there any possible rocketry application? Or possibly, home security application (i.e to connect cameras to a base station, or...)?

Thanks all!

 

[Steven]

Make a cat o nine tails and scare the hell out of the noisy neighbors with it. Midnight is the best time.

 

[Pem Tech]

Make a cat o nine tails and scare the hell out of the noisy neighbors with it. Midnight is the best time.

Or just put it to good use.

 

[Blast it Tom!]

Or just put it to good use.

Alright, I'm getting a  charge out of you two, but what's the current thinking on what a good use would be? I need some well grounded answers! Is there any potential here?

 

[SDramstad]

Turn it into a solar powered clothes dryer

 

[John Kemker]

If you're a ham radio operator, it makes great tuning stubs for homebrew antennae. Heck, it even makes decent feedline for ham radio antennae, even though it's nominally 75-ohm instead for 50-ohm. Lower loss, compared to most 50-ohm cables.

 

[jsdemar]

Donate it to Trump. I hear he's collecting scrap metal.....

 

[Blast it Tom!]

If you're a ham radio operator, it makes great tuning stubs for homebrew antennae. Heck, it even makes decent feedline for ham radio antennae, even though it's nominally 75-ohm instead for 50-ohm. Lower loss, compared to most 50-ohm cables.

Unfortunately I am not a ham radio operator. My wife, though, will roll her eyes as she describes what a ham I am otherwise!

 

[speed]

Donate it to Trump. I hear he's collecting scrap metal.....

Truth social will make him billions.

 

[bobby_hamill]

you can use the solid copper conductor for coil making ?

 

[Art Upton]

you can use the solid copper conductor for coil making ?

I would have to ask what kind of coils ?

Inductors for Electronics, yes but it is work to get the stiff wire out of the coax

Coils for suspension - no
Coils for refrigerators - no

 

[cwbullet]

Sell it or goodwill?

 

[tsmith1315]

Inductors for Electronics, yes but it is work to get the stiff wire out of the coax

And it would need a coat of insulation.

 

[Art Upton]

And it would need a coat of insulation.

Depends on the type of coil. Lots of RF coils in the past were naked copper that does not touch. The kind you squeezed or pulled on to adjust. Not all but many CBs had those kind in the Final Output Tanks.