I went with a cheap one and regret it.

Half the time the connections fail wasting my time and a connector.


Loren H. Burlingame wrote:

>I just have to chime in with a bump for the Ideal ($40 Home Depot)
>crimper. After using first a cheap plastic pos and then a
>slightly-less-pos generic brand metal crimper, I am convinced that I
>have the best crimper tool money can buy.
>
>It is not that the other tools did not work. It is that they did not
>work well and would often fail to get all of the pins pushed all the
>way down.
>
>
>On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:17:11 -0600, steve ulrich <sulrich at botwerks.org> wrote:
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>
>>when last we saw our hero (Wednesday, Dec 08, 2004),
>> John Meier was madly tapping out:
>>
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>>><snip>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Home Depot has an Ideal brand
>>>>crimper
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>>>>
>>>So if the original poster needs, I have the above mentioned crimper,
>>>wire and the plug ends - and I'm in bloomington - home all day  You
>>>could test it out before you buy and make a cross-over!!
>>>
>>>My crimper is from Home depot, but I upgraded it a bit....  It's far
>>>better than ANYTHING out there... I should really put my Crimper mod
>>>up on the Internet so others can benefit....
>>>      
>>>
>>color me more than a little curious as to your mod.  i've been using
>>what i consider to be the best crimper ever [1] for going on 6 or so
>>years now.  i've crimped probably thousands of cable ends, definitely
>>several hundred, with mine and i've only broken one die.
>>
>>{ snipped - misc .signatures }
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>>references
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>>http://www.milestek.com/shop/product.asp?id=40%2020031&cid=710&kwd=MTTTLCTMOD&l=516&p=Tools+%26+Testers
>>
>>--
>>steve ulrich                       sulrich at botwerks.org
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