Patent ID: 8256102

Claim:
A tool for installing a compression-type coaxial cable connector on an end of a coaxial cable, the connector having a free end and a cable-receiving end, the tool comprising: a base including a compression zone in which a connector and an end portion of a coaxial cable which extends into the cable-receiving end of the connector are removably receivable; an actuator connected to the base for movement between open and closed positions; a plunger having a first end portion connected to the actuator and a second end portion reciprocally moveable in the compression zone to a retracted position when the actuator is open and to an extended position when the actuator is closed; the second end portion of the plunger comprising a first member terminating at a first end face which defines a first major outside dimension and a second member terminating at a second end face which defines a second major outside dimension which is different from the first major outside dimension of the first member, at least one of the first and second end faces being engageable with the free end of a connector upon movement of the plunger to the extended position in the compression zone in which a connector and an end portion of a coaxial cable have been positioned; the first and second end faces being movable relative to one another such that either one of the first and second end faces can be releasably fixed to the plunger in a location farther from the first end of the plunger than the other of the first and second end faces.