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DoN. Nichols
 
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Default Crimping large cable lugs without a crimper

According to Ignoramus3498 :
Don, thank you, I won that auction.


Congratulations -- that is a nice price.

I will try to look for proper dies
for them, mostly #1, #2, $4 etc.


You won't *find* #1 dies. They are not part of the series. For
that one, the choices are #8, #6, #4 and #2 -- *only*.

You also won't find crimp *terminals* specific for #1.

I think that the #2 will suffice for the #1 as well. In the
smaller sizes, #16 (yellow) will also handle #14, and #10 (blue) will
also handle #12. (And the next smaller size, red, is rated for #22-#16.
The range seems to get smaller as the wire gets bigger.

The bigger crimp heads (separate hydraulic only -- you have to
connect to your own pump if one is not part of the auction) are the #0
(1-0), 2-0, 3-0 and 4-0 -- all with separate dies for the same crimp
head.

I just went down, and while I find the hydraulic heads, and the
pumps easily enough, I don't find the container with the dies and the
matching terminals. I'll have to try another time -- perhaps during the
day instead of after 1:00 am, when I hit the newsgroup and see your
postings, Perhaps a direct e-mail instead of a posting might get to me
in time to go down in the daylight.

Enjoy,
DoN.
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