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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alan22" data-source="post: 1130107" data-attributes="member: 417507">Well it's been a hell of a fun time doing this, taken a few days so far, part through getting nowhere fast the first few days multiple attempts, I asked the seller about any tricks I may be missing, and they sent me their instruction video, which looked a lot easier to do, but the difference was subtle, took me a few watches, checking previous research, and stumbling on a comment by one guide, saying they do sell cable 'stretchers(?)' to stretch the sleeve and make it easier to go in, but then said they are too expensive for the average Joe to by for a one off job, so they carried on with brute force, I say brute force because it's a strength I don't have as all my muscles are dying (including those you don't think of), but with that in mind I started to have a thought.I tried to stretch the sleeve a bit manually, but it failed every time, then I watched the sellers video making it look so easy again a few times, and I caught sight of the cable in prepared state being put in the connector, took a few goes at pausing it at the millisecond that was clear, and they had removed the foil from the inner core, so I removed the foil and also stretched the sleeve lifting the edge with my Stanley Knife, and talk about a difference, I have no idea what the difference is between videos leaving the foil on and using some force to push it on (something I can't do), and removing the exposed foil, obviously I didn't touch anything under the sleeve, and as such I have no idea which side of the foil the plug went on as it was pushed on, and I have no idea if there may be a technical reason for what side of the plug the foil is on, e.g. either inside the foil with the strands next to it, or outside the foil separating the strands from the foil, if that makes sense?Got some strength back in my hands again now, so weather and body permitting I will do the dish tomorrow, but it will be a serious strain off a ladder and working the way I could indoors while sat, but I have another question re Silicone Grease, I've used it indoors, but the article I saw about it was saying to pack the plug full of it, sounding like they meant the central core that connects as well, but somewhere else said leave the inside as it's no good there (something along those lines, memory is not great anymore), and to apply it outside the connectors after connecting them, and renew it every year (he lives by the sea apparently and found it keeps his cables protected from the sea air, which is the total opposite of the research I found by a guy who started out as testing the connectivity of cables indoors and out professionally for a company prior to moving over to satellites, and said it makes a massive boost to the loss of signal making it much stronger, and as many video's I've found putting on the connectors, I have not seen a single one with the grease being applied, the odd mention maybe, but not displayed, as I say the article suggests just packing the entire plug from what I can figure, anyone have suggestions about where\how to add the grease?I've done the indoor cables already, and only placed it on the sleeve area as an aid to pushing it on as well as I needed to get them done, but given the condition of the old connections on the dish it makes perfect sense to protect the connection as best possible, as the centre core was in a right state on 3 of the leads, which makes perfect sense why I had the progressive fault the way it did, but not having money to waste I didn't want to get an LNB (which was high on my suspect list) if it turned out to just be failed cable on the box connections, because the quandary was on my first cable connection repair it worked, but a few days later it failed again, and with the constant twisting and straining to put the plugs on, I did have to wonder about a kind of 'spiral fracture' along the cable due to this, but with your great help it gave me the confidence about the LNB, and here we are lol, anyway any advice on the grease would be a great help before doing the dish, and a big Thanks to everyone for getting me this far.</blockquote>

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