On 03/05/2013 22:34, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Fri, 03 May 2013 17:25:42 +0100, Clive George wrote:

Doesn't sound as if the work could be taken to a friendly spark to be
done where they happen to be working. Trying to borrow a suitable
crimp tool would be my approach to start with.

TBH 21 quid isn't that much for the tool.

True but it's 1/3 of the weeks supermarket bill...

Yes, it's a bit painful in comparison to the cost of the crimps, but
I'd justify it as 11 quid a joint and you end up with a potentially
useful tool.

How often are you likely to do 16mm crimps? I'm with the OP it'll be
these two and that's it. I guess one could buy a tool that does more than
16mm but again these are big not the red/yellow/blue that one would find
in domestic wiring. Buying and flogging on eBay to recoup some of the
cost might be a possibilty.

The link he gave originally led to two tools, one 1.5-16mm, one 6mm-25mm
I think. I'd probably buy one, partly because it's always good getting
another tool :-)