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If you need to do any large cable/terminal crimping you need to look into this dude.
I was holding off crimping all of the big stuff on the van (4ga to 1/0) until I ordered one of these hydraulic terminal crimpers off eBay last week.
Harbor Freight sells this for 70 bucks. I got it for <55 dollars and free shipping from eBay...
I got it yesterday and tried it out on a 1/0 cable terminal. I can say it worked very well and I am glad I waited to do these crimps until I got this tool...
Here is the lug I am going to crimp. As you can see this is pretty big. The tool comes with dies to do up to 2/0.
Excellent investment and it makes some nice looking crimps. I am going to look into hard mounting it to the bench. It gets kind of busy trying to hold the cable in place while trying to actuate the hand pump on the crimper.
I clamped the lug in the vise and tested the crimp. It will take a lot of force to pull the lug off...
I finished up the crimp with some heat shrink and called it good...
Of course I have at least a half dozen of these to do on the big cables and as many or more on the 4 ga. stuff. Should be fun now.
Mark
I was holding off crimping all of the big stuff on the van (4ga to 1/0) until I ordered one of these hydraulic terminal crimpers off eBay last week.
Harbor Freight sells this for 70 bucks. I got it for <55 dollars and free shipping from eBay...
I got it yesterday and tried it out on a 1/0 cable terminal. I can say it worked very well and I am glad I waited to do these crimps until I got this tool...
Here is the lug I am going to crimp. As you can see this is pretty big. The tool comes with dies to do up to 2/0.
Excellent investment and it makes some nice looking crimps. I am going to look into hard mounting it to the bench. It gets kind of busy trying to hold the cable in place while trying to actuate the hand pump on the crimper.
I clamped the lug in the vise and tested the crimp. It will take a lot of force to pull the lug off...
I finished up the crimp with some heat shrink and called it good...
Of course I have at least a half dozen of these to do on the big cables and as many or more on the 4 ga. stuff. Should be fun now.
Mark
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