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| rvalente:
Hello Mates, i'm looking finding the correct crimping tool at and affordable price. I need do crimp: Tyco CPC - Circular Plastic Connectors Amp Timer Power and Junior Molex KK I prefer something from iwiss or icrimp, as I can easily source from aliexpress. Greetings, Renan |
| tooki:
“Correct” and “affordable” are mutually exclusive if you want to buy new. The more I’ve used cheap Chinese crimpers, the less respect I have for them. I instead recommend buying original (name-brand) tools used. You can get them for a fraction of the cost of buying new. You can even often find new original tools on auction and classified ad sites for massive discounts if you have patience. I’ve bought several brand-new Molex and TE crimpers for $60-120 each instead of $350-500 normal price. Also FYI even for advice on cheap crimpers you’ll need to be far more specific about what exact contacts you want to crimp, and to what wire. Molex KK, for example, covers two completely different sizes of connector, and in the larger size, some contact models are “friendlier” to non-official tools than others… TE CPC is a blanket name covering a wide array of disparate connector families that use radically different contact types, in a wide array of sizes. It is categorically impossible to recommend a tool for CPC, because no such tool exists. If you don’t want to buy the real tooling, then I suggest buying pre-crimped leads to assemble your cables with. Cheap crimpers are a deep, deep rabbit hole to fall into, with very little to show for it in the end. Also, because cheap crimpers never have locators (positioners to hold the contact in place), even if you manage to find a cheap crimper that is actually capable of properly crimping your contacts, using them is generally significantly slower and more error-prone than the original tools. |
| nctnico:
For Molex KK get the Molex hand tool: 64016-0201 It is too affordable to mess around. I second Tooki's suggestion to go for the original tools if possible. Especially for very small pitch contacts, the official tool is the only one that will work well. Having said that, I do have a few cheap ratchet (*) crimpers around that work reasonably well but only for prototyping purposes. * Never ever consider a crimper without a ratchet mechanism! |
| jonpaul:
For serious tools: 1/ Avoid Chinese junk 2/ Look for vintage US brands or EU like Molex, Philips, Besr, AMP 3/ Get exact tool and dies for required crimp connectors. Not cheap but last a lifetime j |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: nctnico on January 26, 2024, 12:07:15 am ---For Molex KK get the Molex hand tool: 64016-0201 It is too affordable to mess around. --- End quote --- Strong disagree there: that’s a garbage tool. We got one of those at work and it was so bad we returned it. Literally useless. Moles should be ashamed to even sell such a thing. I have a picture of it here: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/affordable-crimp-tools-for-small-connectors-(dupont-etc-)/msg5154528/#msg5154528 Plus, within the KK family, it’s only for KK254; OP hasn’t told us whether they are using KK254 or KK396. The real tools for all the connectors that tool is for cost a lot more, and have proper locators. |
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