Sooooo, who’s the cable tv cable expert?
Remembering I do commercial real estate for a living, a few years ago in my injury/illness delirium, I represented an owner who leased a space to a Comcast installation contractor, a big franchise guy. Long story short, I picked up two full-size pickup truck fancy A,R.E. camper tops for $150. They are the heavy duty ones that sell for $3-$4000 new. I didn’t want them, but the price dropped $1000 each when they had to be out on the last day.
One was filthy, no keys, but otherwise in good shape. I bathed it in bleach and washed it, put three locks in it (a two hour effort max) and sold it for $500 in a week.
The second one physically was in good shape, but it’s missing the back door, and not only did it not have any keys, the toolbox side would not open. The T-handle would just spin and spin without activating the mechanism. That one has been sitting out back for two or three years now.
Well, with getting the tree guys out here and other things I’m trying to do to clean this place up now that my health is coming back, I decided to clean this thing up and make a door for the back and sell it. I started by drilling out the lock on the broken side and figuring out how to get that side open. Then it was like a mini Christmas.
That side was full of hardware. It had about 30 brand new ground clamps for pipes, and the kind of clamps you use join two battery-cables size cables together, all kinds of hooks and hangers to string the cables in the air, all kinds of coax cable, fittings and tie downs, etc., etc. Perfect for stocking up the shed of miracles.
There were two things that I’ve never seen before. Who is the expert? What are these things:
There’s a bag of about 30 or 40 of these. They look like they’re stainless steel, the three screws have the cup washers with a slot and an insulator, which makes no sense to me, because the screw obviously grounds everything together. They are rolled over on one side, which looks to be about the diameter of a coax cable that feeds the house or the TV. I can’t find them online to figure out what they are.
Then there was this thing:
My research online tells me it’s an AC to DC adapter converter, but I’m wondering what it’s used for. It plugs into the wall, 110 V, but then it has a coax cable outlet only. Why on earth would you convert a AC to DC and then plug it into the coax that feeds your TV?
Inquiring minds want to know…