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withinboredom on Sept 21, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

We had the same problem at an old house. There was a cable splitter in the attic that was expanding in the heat and losing connection to the cable. We bought a heftier one and moved it under the insulation in the attic.

creeble on Sept 21, 2023 [–]

Interesting, I removed a splitter from the attic many years ago and replaced it with an F-F coupler.

I wonder if the coupler’s center conductor contacts could be expanding just enough to break the connection?

withinboredom on Sept 21, 2023 | [–]

I wouldn’t be surprised if that was happening.

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