somabva

Thanks very much for all the tips guys. Digging through my parts bag, I came upon the idea of using BNC > RCA adapters and soldering some heavy duty male RCA jacks on the ends of the cables. Worked great and provided more strain relief than some of the other options would have.

My friend's business was recently broken into, and the vandals tore out the DVR to smash it and destroy the hard disk on the recorder. In doing so, they ripped off the BNC connectors on the end of the premade cables that came with the cameras. It is one of those system-in-a-box kind you can buy at sams club / harbor freight / etc. I offered to help her fix it, but I don't actually do that much work with CCTV. I do have a compression tool that I use for BNC connectors, but the cable is not RG6 or RG59 coax cable. It is a siamese power/video, and the video half just looks like normal 28AWG stranded copper, stranded copper center wire with insulator under a stranded copper shield, the kind you'd see used on RCA cables and the like. I have a compression tool that I use for BNC, but I've never dealt with this kind of cable before, only RG6. Is there a BNC compression connector or other style that is used for this kind of cable? Alternatively, could I just use those passive BNC to paired barrier-terminal adapters that are sometimes used to run CCTV over normal twisted pair / Cat5 cable? Thanks in advance