What should I do? Rather urgent!

Green Gooner

We are getting our Living Room kind of done up which meant I had to disconnect the Sky HD box. I did so no problem.

As I said in another thread, I am hoping to get rid of Sky and I already have a Freesat box which I will get set up soon.

However, someone in the house insisted I reconnected the Sky for one more night as I didnt have the Freesat box set up.

But, as I was reconnecting the two cable's that come from the actual satellite dish into the back of the box, one of the little pins bent! It's that long since I reconnected the Sky box I forget you had to line them up them put them in the space. The pin in the other cable also appears to be bent although I didnt try to force that pin in so it appears it was like that.

So what do I do now? Should I ring an engineer to come out? I do remember the Sky helpdesk telling me the were delicate but my mate who knows a bit about that king of thing reckons I should straighten them. So all I want of you guys is a second opinion.

For the record, I'll only need one for the Freesat HD box. I will connect it later all going well.

gtg60

Just straighten it and be more careful putting it back in.

fergal.b

Hi, if this is the part you are talking about just straighten it or if it is to bad or broken you will have to cut it off and buy a new one as they are clamped on.
http://www.schwebbie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/coax-w-f-connector.jpg

If it is like this one you can just unscrew it from the cable and cut the cable back to make a new conection
http://www.aceonline.co.uk/items/FC-antiference-screw-on-f-type-connector.jpg

Best of luck

fat-tony

Here's a link to a video on how to wire an F-connector:
http://www.satellite.ie/acatalog/F_coaxial_connector_Screw_on___4_pack_.html