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Don Foreman
 
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Default Crimping large cable lugs without a crimper

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:50:16 GMT, Ignoramus25589
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I will soon need to crimp many terminals on many short, but thick, 1
gauge or 0 gauge cables.

Crimpers are just too expensive.

Is there some way to get acceptable crimps without a crimper.

I guess, also, that I could buy one on ebay and later sell it, but I
would prefer to avoid that.


$15.75 is too expensive? One that will crimp 8 gage to 4/0 using a
hammer is that price from

http://www.sjdiscounttools.com/ezrb790c.html

For a photo of it, download the catalog at
http://www.ezred.com/

and look at page 17.

I have one of these, or one a lot like it. It works fine. Use a
big hammer.


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Don Murray
 
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Default Crimping large cable lugs without a crimper

One on e-bay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1
Don

Ignoramus25589 wrote:
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 13:47:26 -0500, Don Foreman wrote:

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:50:16 GMT, Ignoramus25589
wrote:


I will soon need to crimp many terminals on many short, but thick, 1
gauge or 0 gauge cables.

Crimpers are just too expensive.

Is there some way to get acceptable crimps without a crimper.

I guess, also, that I could buy one on ebay and later sell it, but I
would prefer to avoid that.


$15.75 is too expensive? One that will crimp 8 gage to 4/0 using a
hammer is that price from

http://www.sjdiscounttools.com/ezrb790c.html

For a photo of it, download the catalog at
http://www.ezred.com/

and look at page 17.

I have one of these, or one a lot like it. It works fine. Use a
big hammer.




that would work fine with me. Thanks. I will check it out.

i


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