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Can also just buy a bag of 'em: https://www.techtoolsupply.com/RJ-45-Quick-Plug-Easy-Repair-Clear-50-pieces-p/sky-con9024.htm https://www.techtoolsupply.com/RJ-

Can also just buy a bag of 'em: https://www.techtoolsupply.com/RJ-45-Quick-Plug-Easy-Repair-Clear-50-pieces-p/sky-con9024.htm https://www.techtoolsupply.com/RJ-45-Quick-Plug-Easy-Repair-... I'm still working my way through the 50-count bag I bought in 2018; evidently I don't actually encounter that many broken cables, they just exert an outsized effect on my psyche when I do.

blackoil 4y ago
Don't you know of the woodworking wisdom. "Why buy, When you can build at 3x price in just 100 hours time?"
- wartijn_ 4y ago
  I like that attitude, it’s the hardware version of “why spend 5 minutes to do something manually, when you can spend 30 minutes to write a script that does the task?”
  - ilyt 4y ago
    The answer is scale! For home stuff it has been 50/50 on time investment (including one of "the hardware I automated went up in smoke"), but for work stuff not putting that bit extra work almost always turned out to be wrong call.
bradknowles 4y ago
You can also get them on Amazon: Construct Pro RJ-45 Easy Plug Repair for Cat5e & Cat6 (Clear | Bag of 50) https://a.co/d/1BsSIIn https://a.co/d/1BsSIIn
btbuildem 4y ago
So, you can buy a bag of fifty and have it sitting around for four years because you'll never use fifty of those things? Sounds like an excellent argument for just printing one when you need it.
mmastrac 4y ago
I had no idea this existed and I think I need to buy a bag.
- marcosdumay 4y ago
  And to carry a few around at my pockets everywhere.
  - actionfromafar 4y ago
    I just had the (to others obvious I'm sure) ultimate idea endgame - we will all have a mini 3D printer in our pockets, with a library of handy things.
Damogran6 4y ago
But then how do you justify your 3d printer? (Kidding, I already know you justify them by printing bottlecap openers.)
- rainbowzootsuit 4y ago
  I've been enjoying gridfinity to keep the print head warm on long cold nights. https://old.reddit.com/r/gridfinity https://old.reddit.com/r/gridfinity
  - blamazon 4y ago
    For the unfamiliar, gridfinity is a project kicked off by Zack Freedman, who makes awesome YouTube videos with his life partner: https://youtu.be/ra_9zU-mnl8 https://youtu.be/ra_9zU-mnl8 (Yes, that is a monocular HUD on his face, it's his teleprompter. There are a bunch of videos on the channel chronicling the various iterations of it)
- GuB-42 4y ago
  I sometimes use my 3D printer just so I can get the thing right now. For example, I once printed a small electrical box, the kind you can find for $2 in any hardware store. Totally not worth it in normal circumstances, but it was Sunday, shops were closed, and I needed one, so I just printed it, and finished the job, didn't have to wait the next day. And you got things wrong, 3D printers don't print bottlecap openers, they print little boats ;)
  - alias_neo 4y ago
    I had to print some little "brackets" for the blinds in my daughter's room after she broke some (she's a toddler) and we needed to close them for bed time; Half an hour in CAD and another half an hour of printing a dozen of them, and now I can replace them any time they break. I also printed some curtain clips for my wife rather than drive to the DIY shop or wait for Amazon to post me some; Perhaps not cost effective, but better than driving a couple of miles for £1 of plastic clips? I have young children so I occasionally print aesthetic things, but as a rule, I reserve 3D-printing (or "printing" as my daughter knows it because she's never known printing to have fewer than 3 dimensions) for practical things. It's funny, my wife has never been on board with my hobbies so much as she is with 3D Printing.
dheera 4y ago
But do you want it delivered in 2 days or 30 minutes?
- opan 4y ago
  I actually thought the 2 days was for the 3d printer on first read. Are they not incredibly slow these days?
  - Mogzol 4y ago
    They're slow, but this part is also very small. 30 minutes is a pretty good estimate.
- kotaKat 4y ago
  The 2 days of waiting beats the 6 hours I'll spend cursing why the 3d printer isn't printing "just right" later today to be able to wait 30 minutes for it to finally print out a handful of them.
  - fnordpiglet 4y ago
    Clearly not written by an engineer.
    - bombcar 4y ago
      A true engineer orders the part and then immediately starts trying to build it.
      - fnordpiglet 4y ago
        Fair point.
      - myself248 4y ago
        Well, well, well, if it isn't my unauthorized biography!
    - 4y ago
windexh8er 4y ago
I'm legit confused as to why this is a thing. Crimping ends is dead simple with pass-thru style RJ-45 tools. I don't think I'd trust these "repair" connectors for anything important. For price comparison a pack of EZ RJ-45 (Cat6 rated) is around $20 and a pass thru crimper is about the same. Even cheaper if you go old school.
- ilyt 4y ago
  Well, (proper) cable testers are expensive and I'd imagine carrying that in "just in case" pocket is easier than whole gear to crimp and test the cable. ....you do test the cables you've crimped right ?
- eurasiantiger 4y ago
  The connector stays the same, only the latch clip is replaced. Add a drop of elastic superglue if in doubt.
- jibe 4y ago
  Is there a specific crimper you recommend?
  - roperj 4y ago
    The Klein VDV226-110
  - subhro 4y ago
    I prefer https://www.truecable.com/products/all-in-one-crimp-and-termination-tool https://www.truecable.com/products/all-in-one-crimp-and-term... and pretty much every single one of their tools.
    - myself248 4y ago
      Oh niiiiiiiiice. That looks like it fixes every single complaint I've had about similar tools. I hope the ratchet is good; I just had the ratchet blow out on that Klein that everyone recommends, and I went back to my trusty Ideal Telemaster.
mcbits 4y ago
It's a 1 cent item being sold for 22 cents, probably at least 30 cents with shipping. The 3D printer can't compete with the 1 cent but can compete with the 30 cents and definitely with the $15 if you really only need one clip and the "spare parts I may never use" drawer/closet/room is full.
- Turing_Machine 4y ago
  I made some replacement wheel caps for my FIL's car. Nothing structural, just simple plastic press-fit caps that keep gunk from getting in. They're about 4 cm in diameter and just cover the center of the wheel. They're not full hub caps. The dealer wants $20 for one cap. Yow! I printed a couple of sets for probably less than $1.00 in filament.
capableweb 4y ago
I like the design in the submission more, as it doesn't seem like it'll break as easy as the one you linked. Those you linked have that "open backside flap" that breaks so easily when you're pulling cables around and it gets stuck on something, quickly breaking off. While the submission one has both sides closed, so pulling a cable means it won't get stuck anywhere, much preferred.
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blackoil 4y ago

Don't you know of the woodworking wisdom. "Why buy, When you can build at 3x price in just 100 hours time?"

wartijn_ 4y ago
I like that attitude, it’s the hardware version of “why spend 5 minutes to do something manually, when you can spend 30 minutes to write a script that does the task?”
- ilyt 4y ago
  The answer is scale! For home stuff it has been 50/50 on time investment (including one of "the hardware I automated went up in smoke"), but for work stuff not putting that bit extra work almost always turned out to be wrong call.

bradknowles 4y ago

You can also get them on Amazon: Construct Pro RJ-45 Easy Plug Repair for Cat5e & Cat6 (Clear | Bag of 50) https://a.co/d/1BsSIIn https://a.co/d/1BsSIIn

btbuildem 4y ago

So, you can buy a bag of fifty and have it sitting around for four years because you'll never use fifty of those things? Sounds like an excellent argument for just printing one when you need it.

mmastrac 4y ago

I had no idea this existed and I think I need to buy a bag.

marcosdumay 4y ago
And to carry a few around at my pockets everywhere.
- actionfromafar 4y ago
  I just had the (to others obvious I'm sure) ultimate idea endgame - we will all have a mini 3D printer in our pockets, with a library of handy things.

Damogran6 4y ago

But then how do you justify your 3d printer? (Kidding, I already know you justify them by printing bottlecap openers.)

rainbowzootsuit 4y ago
I've been enjoying gridfinity to keep the print head warm on long cold nights. https://old.reddit.com/r/gridfinity https://old.reddit.com/r/gridfinity
- blamazon 4y ago
  For the unfamiliar, gridfinity is a project kicked off by Zack Freedman, who makes awesome YouTube videos with his life partner: https://youtu.be/ra_9zU-mnl8 https://youtu.be/ra_9zU-mnl8 (Yes, that is a monocular HUD on his face, it's his teleprompter. There are a bunch of videos on the channel chronicling the various iterations of it)
GuB-42 4y ago
I sometimes use my 3D printer just so I can get the thing right now. For example, I once printed a small electrical box, the kind you can find for $2 in any hardware store. Totally not worth it in normal circumstances, but it was Sunday, shops were closed, and I needed one, so I just printed it, and finished the job, didn't have to wait the next day. And you got things wrong, 3D printers don't print bottlecap openers, they print little boats ;)
- alias_neo 4y ago
  I had to print some little "brackets" for the blinds in my daughter's room after she broke some (she's a toddler) and we needed to close them for bed time; Half an hour in CAD and another half an hour of printing a dozen of them, and now I can replace them any time they break. I also printed some curtain clips for my wife rather than drive to the DIY shop or wait for Amazon to post me some; Perhaps not cost effective, but better than driving a couple of miles for £1 of plastic clips? I have young children so I occasionally print aesthetic things, but as a rule, I reserve 3D-printing (or "printing" as my daughter knows it because she's never known printing to have fewer than 3 dimensions) for practical things. It's funny, my wife has never been on board with my hobbies so much as she is with 3D Printing.

dheera 4y ago

But do you want it delivered in 2 days or 30 minutes?

opan 4y ago
I actually thought the 2 days was for the 3d printer on first read. Are they not incredibly slow these days?
- Mogzol 4y ago
  They're slow, but this part is also very small. 30 minutes is a pretty good estimate.
kotaKat 4y ago
The 2 days of waiting beats the 6 hours I'll spend cursing why the 3d printer isn't printing "just right" later today to be able to wait 30 minutes for it to finally print out a handful of them.
- fnordpiglet 4y ago
  Clearly not written by an engineer.
  - bombcar 4y ago
    A true engineer orders the part and then immediately starts trying to build it.
    - fnordpiglet 4y ago
      Fair point.
    - myself248 4y ago
      Well, well, well, if it isn't my unauthorized biography!
  - 4y ago

windexh8er 4y ago

I'm legit confused as to why this is a thing. Crimping ends is dead simple with pass-thru style RJ-45 tools. I don't think I'd trust these "repair" connectors for anything important. For price comparison a pack of EZ RJ-45 (Cat6 rated) is around $20 and a pass thru crimper is about the same. Even cheaper if you go old school.

ilyt 4y ago
Well, (proper) cable testers are expensive and I'd imagine carrying that in "just in case" pocket is easier than whole gear to crimp and test the cable. ....you do test the cables you've crimped right ?
eurasiantiger 4y ago
The connector stays the same, only the latch clip is replaced. Add a drop of elastic superglue if in doubt.
jibe 4y ago
Is there a specific crimper you recommend?
- roperj 4y ago
  The Klein VDV226-110
- subhro 4y ago
  I prefer https://www.truecable.com/products/all-in-one-crimp-and-termination-tool https://www.truecable.com/products/all-in-one-crimp-and-term... and pretty much every single one of their tools.
  - myself248 4y ago
    Oh niiiiiiiiice. That looks like it fixes every single complaint I've had about similar tools. I hope the ratchet is good; I just had the ratchet blow out on that Klein that everyone recommends, and I went back to my trusty Ideal Telemaster.

mcbits 4y ago

It's a 1 cent item being sold for 22 cents, probably at least 30 cents with shipping. The 3D printer can't compete with the 1 cent but can compete with the 30 cents and definitely with the $15 if you really only need one clip and the "spare parts I may never use" drawer/closet/room is full.

Turing_Machine 4y ago
I made some replacement wheel caps for my FIL's car. Nothing structural, just simple plastic press-fit caps that keep gunk from getting in. They're about 4 cm in diameter and just cover the center of the wheel. They're not full hub caps. The dealer wants $20 for one cap. Yow! I printed a couple of sets for probably less than $1.00 in filament.

capableweb 4y ago

I like the design in the submission more, as it doesn't seem like it'll break as easy as the one you linked. Those you linked have that "open backside flap" that breaks so easily when you're pulling cables around and it gets stuck on something, quickly breaking off. While the submission one has both sides closed, so pulling a cable means it won't get stuck anywhere, much preferred.

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