Doug Kanter wrote:

"Tom" wrote in message
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3. This is what I DO, I butt splice on longer free conductors, with
insulated butt terminals. I find them very clean, secure (if done
correctly), and take up minimal room in the box, verses a wirenut.
Plus the price is what most customers can afford.


I've got a crimp tool that's damned near perfect, but the ones I see
available now are all wrong - they have flat jaws, which don't really shape
crimps correctly. Have you found a source for a proper tool?




Go to this page:

http://www.aiyamicro.com//legacy-pro...ping-tools.htm

http://tinyurl.com/jlh6p

And scroll down to the HT336A crimping tool with exchangeable crimping dies.

Then scroll further to HT-336HDIE, HT-336RDIE or HT336WDIE, depending on
the design of the crimp connector you'll be using.

I've used one of these at someone else's plant, but the only crimping
tool I own is one of the kind you described with almost flat jaws. If
I'm really concerned about the reliability of an inline connection I
usually make a twisted splice, solder it and put a double layer of
shrink tubing over it.

Jeff

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