Ernie,

There is no need for a pre trim or pullback if you use EZ’s and their tool. That’s the point some of us are trying to make. If I wasn’t using the tool and I couldn’t achieve a truly flush final trim, then I’d worry about shorts, poor fits in the jacks, and botched strain relief if I resorted to a pullback.

One might want to practice inserting the wires a couple times with a scrap piece of cable, but you won’t need to waste any connectors.

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Those RevConnects look very interesting. They will yield very consistent results and excellent strain relief. I do need to give them one slight “ding”, however, because they introduce an extra contact point in the signal path. I hope that the price would come down if I bought a zillion.