Aqua Vu Cable Cut- Need Help

[anyfishaldo]

I had a Rabbit eating my wife's Christmas cookies in the garage, must have been bad cookies because he also chewed through my cable on the camera. Anyone have any tips for splicing with success. I am less than handy but for $$$ I will save it is worth a try before buying a new cable and camera. It also got my Vex sonar but i replaced that already. I now hate cookies!!!!!

[cold one sd]

Wow, I hope ya didn't tell your wife that the rabbit preferred the cable to her cookies. The fix shouldn't be too hard. In order to keep the cable waterproof you should cut the cable in half, solder the connections, wrap each connection in electrical tape and use a heat shrink over where the splices are. I have used a fairly long heat shrink and squeezed silicone into the ends of the shrink to seal the ends. I then shrunk it down while the silicone was still soft and wiped off the excess. I gave this sonar to my son years ago and it is still working well.

[leech~~]

I've done about 3 ducer cables, but a vid cable maybe a little tricker? coldone, seems to have the process to try, good luck!

[Ed Carlson]

A Rabbit...that's a new one? You sure it was a rabbit?

I would try to see if it can chew it's way out of a Crock Pot next.

[anyfishaldo]

Story gets better. We caught it red handed eating cookies as the door opened one night. I spazzed and had it trapped in a box and it jumped out as I went in for the kill. I chased it out the garage door and slipped on the ice from the eaves and went #$@$ over tea kettle. My wife just laughed about it last night after I told her I was going to try to fix the aqua vu. Hindsight says it would have made me thousands on Funniest Home Videos. Thank God I didn't separate a shoulder.

[broken_line]

hahahahaha rabbit getting your arse and your camera sorry but that made me smile. i would think if you hooked the colors tohether and siliconed and electrical taped it good you would be fine..

[leech~~]

Well if it was your wifes cookies to blame, I guess she should owe you some new equipment! Now see if she laughs about that!