Cable crimping tool. Everything You Need to Know in 5 Minutes

[Music] this is a cable lock and this for example is a crimping tool for a cable lock and this is a crimping tool for a cable lock this is not a crimping tool and this is not a crimping tool sorry just mentioning this because on YouTube you find some quite interesting ideas on how to connect this to this for example I watched this video it's called how to make battery cables the right way and the easy way so don't get me wrong this might not be a bad connection and if you don't have a crimping tool this might be the only solution for you so just check out the link in the description in the meantime you can buy crimping tools for a very good price so just have a look at a few of them well let's start with the hammer luck crimper tool just put in the cable lock and then give it a good smack with the hammer well a little bit more too much I will put another video in the description of the channel cut Weld and grind they show you how to do it right let's move on with the hydraulic hand crimping tool and why I don't like [Music] them well I'm sure you understand what I mean they can make very good crims but they are very slow we are looking for something faster for example this year is a very popular cable crimping tool and you can make good crimps with it but there is a warning as well you absolutely need the right cable lock for the correctly sized cable and as you can see the dice of this crimper are in millimeter if you're working with American wire gauge you have this little table here the problem is it's not quite right let's have a quick look under Wikipedia under wire gauge there we find a very complete table just click on it and scroll over the number you're interested in and here you can see already that 8 a WG only has has 8 mm square and not 10 number six has 13 mm and not 16 and number four has 21 instead of 25 mm square and then instead of this you might get something like this uhoh car audio fabrication has a good theory why this happens and it's because one part of the plier is closing before the other and like this pushing the luck slightly out of the die something like this can't happen with other pliers that work differently this is exactly the kind of plier I to use you can easily adjust it and it doesn't really matter if the luck is a little bit too big for the cable for example I crimped a 95 mm luck on a 50 mm Square cable that's two sizes bigger and I think the result is not bad at all I cut it in half in order to look how it looks from inside what do you think if you want just write something in the [Music] comments the only disadvantage I think is that it's a little bit too heavy for the small cable sizes like 10 mm or 60 mm well sometimes I have to work on a step ladder and to connect these cable locks on a tension so I was looking for a less heavy plier and this is what I found the labeling 8422 38 is a little bit strange it has nothing to do with American wire gauge or the millimet square we are using in Europe but the way the Pliers are built it doesn't matter all common sizes between 10 10 and 15 mm Square [Music] fitting I think the result is pretty [Music] [Applause] [Music] good I cut it apart in order to look inside and I'm pretty happy with the [Music] result okay friends I think that's all you need to know in order to crimp cable Lox If you like the video or if you have a different opinion about something I just said in this video just write it in the comments I really appreciate it and if you like subscribe

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Length: 4min 45sec (285 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 10 2023