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Joseph Gwinn

In article ,
(DoN. Nichols) wrote:

According to Ned Simmons :

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I have a several of the AMP crimpers that DoN mentioned, and while
they do an excellent job, I wouldn't want to make too many
terminations in 10-12 wire with one. The design seems perfect for
causing a repetitive stress injury.

There are electric, pneumatic, or hydraulic ones using the same
crimp head if you are doing a lot of terminals at one sitting -- e.g.
production line work.

I even saw one which was battery powered hydraulic on eBay
recently -- Bundy, but with the AMP crimp head for the 10-12 ga
terminals.

I use the smaller ones for D-sub
pins and CPC connectors quite a lot, and even they are a bit awkward.

I've had no problems with any of the smaller ones -- but then I
don't sit all day crimping terminals.

And for the larger terminals -- 8 through 2 Ga, and 1/0 through
4/0 -- I have an electrically powered hydraulic system.

I had to attach two terminals to #6 stranded wire many years ago, in the
late 1960s. There wasn't space for a mechanical (sidebolt) terminal,
and I didn't have a crimper, so I bought the crimp terminals (which were
made of copper) and simply soldered them to the wire with a torch and
plumbers solder and flux, wiped the flux off with a paper towel, and
insulated the barrel with heavy heat-shrink tubing.

The design of the crimp terminals made a dandy solder-pot terminal, so
it was easy. I don't recall the details, but I probably pre-tinned the
wire and the socket, assembled them, and sweated them together.

Code still allowed solder then; don't know if code still allows solder.

Joe Gwinn