<div dir="ltr">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. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 11:29 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:penobscotsolar@midmaine.com" target="_blank">penobscotsolar@midmaine.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm with Ray on this, Allan. 27 years of using Burndy and Greenlee<br>
crimpers with tinned copper lugs on battery and inverter cables without a<br>
failure says a lot. Like Ray, we do set it a little "tighter" than the<br>
scale indicates.<br>
<br>
Daryl<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
> If there actually is a small hydraulic pump connected between those<br>
> handles?<br>
> I have had previous experience a lot Chinese hydraulics, engines,<br>
> generators<br>
><br>
> Chinese hydraulics and engines have bad habits of seeping oil if not<br>
> downright leaking!<br>
> Their certainly looks like there's no room there for a reasonably sized<br>
> reservoir to store the hydraulic oil.<br>
><br>
> If it's being sold for 50 bucks it's probably coming out of China for 10 !<br>
><br>
> Then you still have to consider the fact that if, unless it has changed I<br>
> believe the crimpers still need to be UL listed<br>
><br>
> No way they're going to spend the money for that!<br>
><br>
> Interesting toy to play with but I don't think it would hold up, do good<br>
> cramps or be legal<br>
><br>
><br>
> Bob Ellison<br>
><br>
>> On Feb 6, 2015, at 6:35 PM, Allan Sindelar <<a href="mailto:allan@sindelarsolar.com">allan@sindelarsolar.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Wrenches,<br>
>> Has anyone used the cheap Chinese hydraulic cable crimpers? Any field<br>
>> reports? Dies appear to be metric; do they correspond to AWG? All of<br>
>> these kits run about $45, which is absurd, as a Klein manual crimper for<br>
>> up to 4/0 runs $200+, and that's what I expected to buy before I came<br>
>> across lots of these on Ebay.<br>
>><br>
>> An example:<br>
>> <a href="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" target="_blank">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</a><br>
>><br>
>> I'm hesitant without good reviews, but it's tempting. No lectures,<br>
>> please.<br>
>><br>
>> Thank you,<br>
>> Allan<br>
>><br>
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