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CWorley:

You guys are the best.  Thanks!

ahofle:


--- Quote from: Nephasth on April 11, 2012, 04:45:29 pm ---Any more, I find myself crimping terminal pins 95% of the time and use ratcheting crimpers:


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I have that same crimper from Harbor Freight and hate it.  There are two separate thin pieces of metal for the jaws and it didn't crimp tight enough (the red/yellow/blue spacing seemed too big).  I ended up borrowing a ratcheting crimper like this from a friend.  The jaws are a solid hunk of metal and the crimps are much tighter -- it worked 1000 times better for me:


http://www.amazon.com/Klein-T1715-Full-Cycle-Ratcheting-Crimper-Insulated/dp/B0002RIA4E

There are cheaper versions too (not sure how good they would be, but I imagine they would be very similar):

http://www.amazon.com/Master-Appliance-35084-Ratcheting-Crimper/dp/B001W2285K

Nephasth:


--- Quote from: ahofle on April 12, 2012, 11:22:04 am ---
--- Quote from: Nephasth on April 11, 2012, 04:45:29 pm ---Any more, I find myself crimping terminal pins 95% of the time and use ratcheting crimpers:


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I have that same crimper from Harbor Freight and hate it.  There are two separate thin pieces of metal for the jaws and it didn't crimp tight enough (the red/yellow/blue spacing seemed too big).  I ended up borrowing a ratcheting crimper like this from a friend.  The jaws are a solid hunk of metal and the crimps are much tighter -- it worked 1000 times better for me...

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The jaws are designed to swap out die sets (which are solid metal). It sounds like you may have been misusing them. Trying to crimp connectors on too small of wire gauge maybe (the red connectors are only designed for 18-22 gauge wire and don't really crimp properly on smaller gauge wire). Once one die meets up to the other die, it can't go any further/tighter. The dies are designed to provide x amount of crimping force on the connector/pin. I don't use the dies pictured, but I've never experienced an improper crimp when using the dies I do have.

ahofle:

They were used on 22 gauge wire and non-insulated .187 quick disconnects. I guess they don't work well with non-insulated?  The 18-22 gauge 'red' setting on the harbor freight crimper had visibly more space when closed than the same 'red' setting on the other crimper I used.   :dunno

EDIT:
Here's the one I used.
http://www.harborfreight.com/ratcheting-crimping-tool-97420.html
According to the description it should have worked on both insulated and non-insulated terminals.  So, if I was 'misusing' them then I'm sure others around here would be too, since .187 are pretty standard for arcade use.

Mysterioii:


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--- Quote from: Franco B on April 12, 2012, 04:00:08 am ---

I use this type of stripper for 98% of the wires I strip. You can get cheap variants of these but the decent ones wrk really well. There is an adjustable depth stop and they are auto adjusting from 0.2-6mm^2





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  Once you use one, you will toss everything else out.

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Agreed.  I have one just like it, works fantastic.

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