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lightspeed:
Hi All,

I'm in the process of connecting all my buttons, and am about to place an order for the .187" quick disconnects.  Can someone shed some light as to how hard it is to crimp the wires for these?  

I've seen seperate crimping tools built just for this purpose, but am wondering if I can get by using my standard wire stripping/crimper tool.   Anyone have any suggestions?  Is the special tool worth it? I figured is I was an arcade technician, this might be something that would be helpful, but I'm only building one control panel.

Thanks,

          light

darkmanx:
if you have a crimping tool umm... thats what they are for  ;D i got one combined with a wire stripper cuz i needed one of those anyway, but its not necessary. you could do it with some needle nose pliers or anything small enough.

halfping:
Make sure you get a decent crimper.  I started using a cheap one that came with some kit I had, after two or three I gave up and went out and bought a real one.  It is worth the extra $

1UP:


If you're using this type (fully insulated) the best way I've found is to use the rounded crimpers on the end of the Radio Shack wire-stripper I have.



You can just crimp the insulated neck of the thing without really damaging it, but the metal prongs get crimped right down.  This works great, as it's hard to pop off the insulation to crimp with a regular crimping tool.

JustMichael:
My crimper has a simple name. It is P-L-I-E-R-S.

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