On 2007-12-12, Jim Wilkins wrote:
On Dec 11, 10:44 pm, "DoN. Nichols" wrote:
On 2007-12-11, Jim Wilkins wrote:
http://www.molex.com/tnotes/crimp.html
O.K. These are for a bench-mounted tool ...
DoN.
Some of the advice applies to hand crimps.
Yes -- and some of it involves things which can be *changed*
only on a powered bench tool. Those things are pre-set in the
manufacture of a proper hand tool, assuming that you use the right one
for the terminals and wire size in question. The hand tools (at least
by AMP) are marked by dipping the ends of the handles in paint of a
color to match the insulation on the crimp terminal -- red for 22-16 ga,
blue for 16-14 ga, and yellow for 12-10 ga. (Of course the same colors
repeat as you go both up and down in the range of sizes -- but if you
get the right color but the wrong size, it will be different enough to
be quite obvious that what you have is wrong. Interestingly enough the
16-14 ga ones have one handle dipped in blue, and one in green, though I
have never seen a green-insulated terminal.
When these have been bashing around in someone's toolbox for
long enough, you will see the colors only on the inside of the handles,
which are formed from fairly thick sheet steel, with the part where you
hand applies the pressure rounded, and the open edges facing inside the
handles.
For the interchangeable dies in the hydraulic heads, the dies
themselves are marked by dots of paint of the appropriate color in
shallow holes -- in addition to being marked in text engraved in the
dies, and embossing the size in the plastic of the terminal. (The
smaller ones -- 10 Ga and smaller alternate between one dot and two dots
for inspection purposes, and if the size is off enough to repeat the dot
pattern, again it is quite obvious that you have the wrong one. :-)
Here's another one, if the
html version of the PDF link works:
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache...&cd=13&gl =us
A *very* good collection of information for hand crimping
tools, and the proper terminals for them.
Enjoy,
DoN.
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