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Wire keeps coming out of crimp connectors.
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--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on February 28, 2008, 11:13:57 am ---Nope. Any wire larger than #4 gets a compression lug with a screw around here. I had to sub out some 0000 jumpers that had crimp lugs.
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The device I have will crimp up to 4/0 (0000) AWG lugs. It has markings on the side of the anvil to show how far to pound the the anvil down for each gauge, from 4 to 4/0. It is pretty heavily built. The body is made from 1/8" steel and the anvil is made from 3/4" square solid steel. If you had a lot of 4/0 lugs to crimp and/or you had to conform to a particular specification, you wouldn't want to use something like this though.
--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on February 28, 2008, 11:15:36 am ---Its some mil-spec. Price goes way up. No digicam here at the office with me, but I'll try to remember to take one home to take a pic of. It makes the insulation sleeve square, with indents for the wire. Looks slick. Not sure if its worth the cash tho. One customer demanded that particular tool, so they paid for it.
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That would be cool. The crimps I've seen in Level42's (still not sure if it was him or someone else) pictures of his wiring were square or rectangular like that I believe. They looked like some of the factory crimps I've seen here and there; for example, this factory crimp:
That one is rectangular for the crimp on the copper and has two indentations on either side for the insulation crimp.