[RE-wrenches] Cable crimper question

penobscotsolar at midmaine.com penobscotsolar at midmaine.com
Sat Feb 7 07:29:59 PST 2015


I'm with Ray on this, Allan. 27 years of using Burndy and Greenlee
crimpers with tinned copper lugs on battery and inverter cables without a
failure says a lot. Like Ray, we do set it a little "tighter" than the
scale indicates.

Daryl


> If there actually is a small hydraulic pump connected between those
> handles?
> I have had previous experience a lot Chinese hydraulics, engines,
> generators
>
> Chinese hydraulics and engines have bad habits of seeping oil if not
> downright leaking!
> Their certainly looks like there's no room there for a reasonably sized
> reservoir to store the hydraulic oil.
>
> If it's being sold for 50 bucks it's probably coming out of China for 10 !
>
> Then you still have to consider the fact that if, unless it has changed I
> believe the crimpers still need to be UL listed
>
> No way they're going to spend the money for that!
>
> Interesting toy to play with but I don't think it would hold up, do good
> cramps or be legal
>
>
> Bob Ellison
>
>> On Feb 6, 2015, at 6:35 PM, Allan Sindelar <allan at sindelarsolar.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Wrenches,
>> Has anyone used the cheap Chinese hydraulic cable crimpers? Any field
>> reports? Dies appear to be metric; do they correspond to AWG?     All of
>> these kits run about $45, which is absurd, as a Klein manual crimper for
>> up to 4/0 runs $200+, and that's what I expected to buy before I came
>> across lots of these on Ebay.
>>
>> An example:
>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/16-Ton-Hydraulic-Wire-Crimper-Crimping-Tool-11-Dies-Battery-Cable-Lug-Terminal-/310896486645?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4862dfe8f5
>>
>> I'm hesitant without good reviews, but it's tempting. No lectures,
>> please.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Allan
>>
>> --
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