[RE-wrenches] Cable crimper question

[Dan Fink]

I have the $50 harbor freight one, and it works fine once you do the metric
conversion and then ignore the die size and do your own testing. For the
big stuff of #2 and above, I use my hammer crimper. But this cheap tool
will certainly crimp the s**t out of smaller sizes. Lots of us older folk
have wrist issues, and applying enough pressure with the usual Klein tool
is painful, and you never know how much pressure is really applied. All I
can say is that my wrists are happy.$50 plus $50 = no pain.

Dan Fink
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On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Chris Mason <cometenergysystems at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have a couple of those cheap chinese metric hydraulic crimpers. They
> crimp fine, there is a conversion table in the box for AWG sizes. It's a
> lot cheaper to give each crew a $40 crimper than sharing a $2,000 Greenlee,
> and when the seals go you buy another one.
>
> On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 11:29 AM, <penobscotsolar at midmaine.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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