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| Chris Mr:
Well, I too had to try a few things before finding a good compromise, which was mentioned earlier. The Engineer ones are really hard to do. They mostly make a good job, but are a pain to use. You have to leave the crimp on the backing metal strip to even stand a chance of stopping the crimp rotating due to the insulation grabbing lugs never being 100% straight. Then you have to crimp it again in the next size up jaws - and you have to make sure that the wire size is correct so it doesn't get crimped too far. Even then, I had some where the insulation lugs were incorrectly bent so the crimp wouldn't go in the plastic. The final tool arrived today, the TU-190-08, which is the ratcheting type. Still not perfect but does a good job and is simple to use. What is needs is a small amount of thickness removing from the front or back face of the dies so it has a bit of wriggle room; without it you have to press the metal backing right up tight to the jaws so the part which grabs the pin in the header doesn't get mangled. I'm going to try a few more before removing material though! Compared to the Engineer ones, this wins for me |
| thm_w:
I have TU-190-08, don't recall any issues with mangling the pins unless I was way off. Could be a defect, jaw width on mine is 3.97-4.00mm. The really nice crimpers will have a spring loaded holder to locate the crimp, but then we are talking 10x the price. No reason to get the Engineer pliers when these exist. |
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