Patent ID: 7874871

Claim:
A connecting assembly for an end of a coaxial cable, the connecting assembly comprising: a first element that is turned around a first axis in a first rotational direction to progressively tighten the first element to a connector; a housing having an exposed surface that can be engaged by a user and turned around the first axis; and the connecting assembly further comprising: a) an axially elongated first groove in one component; and b) an axially elongated first finger on a second component that resides within the first groove with the connecting assembly in a first state, with the connecting assembly in the first state, turning of the housing in the first rotational direction causes the first finger to cause driving of the first element in the first rotational direction with a torque up to a predetermined torque, whereupon continued turning of the housing in the first rotational direction with a torque exceeding the predetermined torque causes reconfiguration of the connecting assembly in a manner whereby: i) the first finger moves circumferentially out of the first groove; and ii) the housing moves in the first rotational direction a first circumferential distance without causing movement of the first element a corresponding first circumferential distance, wherein the first finger is reconfigured by being deformed primarily by radial material compression to allow the first finger to move circumferentially out of the first groove with the connecting assembly in the first state and a torque applied to the housing that exceeds the predetermined torque.