Crimping tool test that I screwed up. (Read description.)

I featured crimping tools in the past I'm pretty sure but certainly I use a lot of these of what I refer to as the more lacks style crimps now it's kind of wrong to refer to them as molex style crimps I'll show you why here is the official molex crimp from one of my preferred suppliers rapid electronics in the UK and they have an option you can buy them all ex ones note incidentally it says due to recent global events the Yukimi experienced distribution and disruption at coming weeks that's the coronavirus thing that was happening in China at the time of making this video but the official molex connector there about if you buy five they're about 13 pence each and the crimps you get the connector but you don't get the actual little crimps with it they have to be bought separately it's quite common in this this of connector market so the crimps are about four pounds per 100 so that would cost our eight pence plus V 84 the two terminals that went into that so I tend to use at gyk versions from Radford and in this case well let's go up to the quantity of 100 there are two pounds each in quantity of 100 what was the molex costing cords 110 pence each versus two pence each so a significant saving but they also sell and it's worth mentioning here G Mikey h2 five zero zero two five zero zero seems to be the name of these connectors I've seen them on eBay the ones andyb were somewhat different I think I preferred the rapid electronic ones this is swamping I'm just because of the light dark background with there all the crimping tools and bright even that's even with a set of off white paper here but they're gy cube air terminals should get them in a real of a thousand and it's about safe 17 pounds plus 40 for a thousand your real of a thousand looks like this it's cardboard real with the crimps wound on alternately with a paper tape and then that just gets fed into the crimping machine or in the case of our use of it we could just fold the crimps off the carrier metal strip that come on I get through a lot of these I've got through several of those rolls which is unbelievable given they all had to be hand crimped and the crimping tool I used it's the one that rapid are selling now is different it came in at 28 pounds 45 plus vit it's a ratchet crimping tool but you'll see me using this green one this is the one I use for those it's a rock solid tool it is crimped ah thousands of those connectors they're very good if never had a problem with it I've been looking at other tools though and some of them are crap and some of them are very good now what's the best way to proceed with this video the best way to proceed to this video is to show you a little doodle of what happens when you crimp a connector so let's bring this new pattern I'm just going to team it down just a tad because it is quite ferocious these connectors typically have in the case of the molex egy key type connector they've got the spring contact that looks like this it comes along and it folds up and then underneath just to give extra springiness and there's also a little tag that sticks a little tang that sticks at the bottom and that's what latches it into the connector housing you have the wing that will fold around the actual wire and then you have a slightly bigger ring that will foreground the insulation so an installation is put in it gets put into about here and then the strands get printed out there and when you crimp this the crimping tool has something that looks a bit like the McDonald's golden arch at the top it's you may be getting deja vu by the way because I did feature something similar to this in a recent video and this is quite precise that has to be made to good quality it's not something you can just bang out with a standard milling machine as such it it tends to be done by fairly specialist processes like a spark erosion and stuff like that but you also have the other side of that that meets into that is the little serve cup very slight curve and when you set the crimp on this it pushes it up against those arches and as it pushes them up against the arches safer and sisters this is the crimp being pushed up it curls the those wings owned onto the wire or onto the insulation and if you over crush those it will potentially damage the wire if you under crush them it will grip the water properly and the first the first craf crimping tools that are worth featuring the ones getting out the way are the SN - 2 8 B which are sold widely on ebay from different sellers different manufacturers and they're sold for use with the dupont style connectors you know the DuPont little tiny set of Arduino ish style connectors as best way to describe them and you can put a pin or a socket into the same set of housing and the tongs and these things is absolutely terrible these ones I'll squeeze them both I don't know if you can see the tolerance can you see that let's zoom down and you might see this bear let's see I can actually just grab the zoom here can you see the tips there that I've got them squeezed fully shut and there's a massive torrance particularly the one at the front which is supposed to be the one for these sized connectors and likewise in the back that aspect and just angle this the one that crimps the actual there the wire itself the tolerance between those is different too and crimping the diff'ent crimps and other crimps are thieves I found that one tool would crimp it so tightly that when you pulled them did the pill test to see if it came out connector the wire physically snapped the other one the wire just came out the crimp it didn't crimp it properly very very tricky I'm sure that SN 20 B is designed for something but I don't think it's really designed for the DuPont crimps let's get these out the way no crap they're not the ones I recommend where's the box where's the box we'll just it on the floor I lost pick this one other way because it is my noon good one I'll just stuff it over there because these ones were really interested in there the next stop for scrutiny is the SN - or 1 BM it is not too bad and let me demonstrate what I mean by not too bad I shall use this particular set wash too first that came with this crimping tool as a set of like by the crimping tool get the strippers interesting now just rip that just a tiny bit more and I shall do want to do next connectors because they're all very similar so other things worthy of note here and I shall doodle that down afterwards when you first get one of these you're gonna have to experiment you're gonna have to get a feel for using this it's not just a case of get it and start banging Mars and crimps you're gonna have to get a feel for inserting the crimp into it and the positioning particularly in these graduate ones that do both air crimps at once so that's that wire and that there crimp and started and I shall slide this wire into the end of that push it forward if I can get it to go in it me not going easily because there I may have just squeezed that just a bit too tight so far well that is not going in I've split the wires a bit this is first things will go wrong this is what happens we're using a crimping tool you're not really used to using there goes there goes and you crimp it and it produces a fairly decent crimp now that we were going to test this is I'm going to stuff it into here and two things can happen when I pull this crimp back out so it goes in and clicks either the wire is going to come over the crimp or the crimp is going to the little Tang is going to distort and pull the crimp out the Tang distorted and killed the crimp out so that's actually a very good crimp I don't know how the quality is going to vary between these and also it's worth noting that one crimp does one crimping tool does not do all and that is especially relevant to the DuPont style connectors which have a really unusually large a cable crimping section which air if you put it into this crimping tool let me get it right way around here if you put into this crimping tool and you have the strain reliefs actually crimp then it's only going to crimp about half of the actual the wire retaining crimp I mean it will still crimper let me just demonstrate that let's get their stripping tool and strip some wire and I shall shove that in there and crimp it if we can get in if I just pushed out even further so that looks alright crimp it has literally I mean it's worked but it's only crimped half that crimp how is that going to go over 30 housing or am I gonna have to re crimp it to get the other half let's slide it in it kind of clicked it pulled oh I'm not going to blame it in this instance because it's actually you know what because it's not crimp that down and that is actually possibly having effect on the little latch drifting down in that but that's okay because there is something that's going to save the day here and it's a fairly affordable crimper which is good next up is well the engineer PE all name is quite famous it's used a lot by the sort of like their drone lovers and the modelers who are connecting with the small connectors for their reader control stuff this tool will cost this very simple manual crimper costs 32 pounds it comes from Japan I have to say I was not enamored by it it's not the best tool for the job I have tried lots of tools I was not impressed by that one for a couple of reasons it comes very driest for a lubricant would help there for because one of the things I've discovered is that the crimps actually physically stick into it so let's go for let's go for one of these connectors then so I shall go into the it's got multiple physicians you're gonna have to crimp the strain relief in a wider position so I'm going to put it into I find one of the most universally useful positions which is the 1.6 millimeter position and are going to fit the wire into it are now going to crimp that but then I'm going to move along and then we're going to crimp the other half of that because otherwise it's not all crimped no it is and then we're gonna have to move along again and this is where the crimp is now stuck firmly into the the engineer tool and I found this this is annoying maybe this is where oil will help it gee seems to have a very rough surface and the crimp sticking with such force that when I try making my mullennixes style connectors in it they are often distorted and won't go into the housing properly until you've straighten them out again this is a manual tool it's absolutely possible to over crush it to the point you sever the cables or under crush it to the point you don't grip them it's all a matter of getting a few let's try this let's straighten out it's bent that's what I'm talking about it just I'm not impressed in that for some reason it's just got little it just seems that it's very grippy it doesn't want to let go of the connectors this one has gone in this one has been mashed okay I've hopefully self what I don't know you know what I crimp the wrong there I was a dick right anyway now I've screwed up a crimped I crimp the restraint but anyway moving on I found that when I use the engineer Pio name I'm sure it'd be versatile I think it could do the little lick of oil in here other than that ax is a fairly useful unit can do a wide range of connectors but it is very much you have to do one bit at a time but there's nothing wrong with that next to the iOS 3 to 2 0 M and this one does both at once know this is where should bring the notepad in because it is really important to note things like this the iris tool came with an amazing set of instructions you would think it's just a crimping tool what seven instructions would it need but it goes into detail Korea has other crimping tools like even my good ones here just give you wire sizes it's very vague it just says it's for this particular wire range and it's obviously just just aimed at one style of crimp because these are aimed a set of universal crimps a multiple types it's very adamant about seeing that your crimp when you look at the end of the crimp this bit here look at the end of it as it comes out your packet of crimps they will be split out what sideways lately they say fold it up until it's vertical and there is a wee bits and most of these tools for just squeezing it but you can get pair of pliers and squeeze and they say measure the distance from side to side and choose the correct one it's because it's kind of a universal crimping tool instead of going by wire size you're going back crimp width and they do this show the parallel wings and they show the things that are good and the things that are bad the crimps too narrow it's going to funnel it in like a horseshoe when it goes into there if you know if that's the crimping section if you have crimp is too wide and you try and funnel it in it will end up bellowing out like that so it has to be parallel going into that and also the other thing that could go wrong there with there the golden arch is that if the crimp is too narrow it can be sloppy it can actually tip in its side so it has to be parallel to the side of that all useful stuff it gives lots of really useful air information about the crimping and also the warnings about not over crimping it too much when you're initially gripping it so you don't fold it in too much to push the wire in the other thing is worth mentioning here with tools like this one that does both sides at once I did the iOS is that inside that crimp tool you'll have the section that crimps the wire of it and then there'll be another section it's slightly wider that crimps the stream relief onto the insulation so you have to when you get your tool and before you each year so you have to really get a feel for this you have to open up and look for the narrower section and the wider section so you can know which we round that crimp Gore's and also you have to get a fuel for the position of the crimp within that sorta is each corresponding bit is in the correct position in my case with this tool it's fairly easy because you close it down in that and you slide it up until the little locking tang touches the metal and then you've just one more click to grip it and then you can put the wire in and crimp it let me just crimp that wire mate as well I've got it all the way so far I've mentioned before the I when I got the first version of this crimping tool because this is the I've got over here got one in Glasgow as well and when I first got it I hated it because I was expecting something that was idiot proof that you just shoved a crimp int and then just shut the warrant and squeeze the handle and it goes and you can get those the molex crimps you can actually get a special tool that the crimp will only go in for X distance and then you put the wire in it's got a little stop and say that will stop the wire at the right distance and stuff like that but those tools cost hundreds of pounds for one tool this one is just a it's you just have to get the feel for it or for the crimp was in this is why when you first get your crimping tool you have to just play with it and you have to check the crimps and you have to do things like this you know stick it into one of the housings and then just pull it and see did you damage the wire or is the reason that came out there is because it locked in so tightly that little old Tang is folded oh I used quite a lot of pressure I did actually give that a real good pull if the wire pops out it's bad if the the wire snaps it's kind of bad as well because it looked like a good crimp but the wire was physically damaged by being over crimped and so the this tool yeah okay let's say a crimp something in this and again none of these are suitable for there for doing a single crimping action on the the DuPont type connectors I don't think so absurd just double-check that so I've marked we Green Dot here at one point six is the winner again the one point six relates to the front section the back section is just slightly wider for allowing for this string relief if I put this in here and it's not that easy no it's not going to go all the way this is such a huge bit on it another hand when I put this crimp in it seems to be absolutely perfect you'll see oil on the finger no V these things came absolutely swimming with all but that's not a bad thing obviously you don't want oil everywhere while you're working but it certainly versus the PE or name Japanese one let me get this in yeah that's a this ones jaws are now enough that you can actually see it better the both sides of that you can actually see it's dead center let's head crimp a wire in there with these three wash surfers that came with their this tool here so let's see if I can just stick that wire in there have I squeezed out too much no no that's fine and it releases things also worthy of mention with any crimping tool say for instance you're halfway through a crimp and you realize it's not in the right position or it slips out of position there's a little trigger under here just squeeze the handle slightly lift that up that's the ratchet and it will open the tool again it's worth mentioning that which of these did I just do what kind of em português i just did with this tool ah hold on I should just give them a pill test yeah that's good pill test yeah that's good it does a good job right onto this one no and I have to say that this isn't one I recommend this is the iowa's and that's an iris - iris seems to be a prominent Chinese brand that they make sensible tools so this came from an eBay listing let's see price-wise the complex one that actually has a parallel jaws that go up the way quite a professional arrangement it cost about just over 20 pounds here in the UK that was unusual that the price range of all these crimping tools is massive you know you can get one for 20 pounds the same tool be sold for 50 pounds it's just all over the place on eBay so it's worth checking you know lowest cost price and shipping first and seeing if you get well how'd you know it's the original thing but the target price for this one here if it suits you is 25 pounds the target price for the one we're about to take a look at is 15 pounds which makes it one of the most affordable crimping tools this one actually cost me 20 pounds because it came with the FSA or six to six have wire strippers which are the typical wire strippers that have just the multiple size holes that you put the Byrant and then strip it it also comes the cutting bleed but there's a slight it looks it almost looks like they've had a slight glitch at the factory or someone's tried to use one of these to cut a big wire it's just get that slate damaged to bleed in the middle it was kind of part of our package and not too bothered by it it doesn't really matter but yeah they are it's also got a little plug rip sedative these are both economically shaped as well they've got that slight angle to them that means that when you you know your your hand can be a more comfortable angle for when you're actually working with it but this one has let's compare it to the extremely expensive the most expensive PE or name Japanese unit this one has four positions 1 millimeter 1.4 1.6 and 1.9 this one is 6.71 1.3 1.6 1.9 at 2.2 in most instances I've found that the connectors that I use one point six is ideal for most them ultimately try whichever connector you're going to use just measure which one is going to in turn and one point line for the restraining connection well that's crimper wire let's get the other end of this wire the one that I completely mashed that crimp by doing it wrong excellent so I shall strip that wire this also instantly works with the not just the DuPont and the Gy keemal actually tech connectors it works with the GST and what they call GST XH connector 2.5 millimeter pitch to 5 5 millimeter pitch being roughly point one pitch point 1 inch pitch err shouldn't twist those wires that's a bit of a taboo thing let's get this and I shall put it initially into the point one point six position just to grip that wire in the where it's been crimped gurus and easily as I say these are swimming with oil when you get them I think that's actually an advantage because it does lubricate the contact surface between the crimp and they're under tool so crimp it down once and then because this is much longer rivets are long and crimp it down the second time and then the string relief that goes around the wire the insulation it goes in to the one point name position you can squeeze them together with the tip of this tool if you want just to nudge their wings together a bit if they're not going and easily because they are usually supplied splayed then that goes in crypts down and that looks relatively good to me let's try it into the air let's try it into one of the connectors other way around that would help actually that has actually bent no that's not actually going to enough just screwed up again as I say every crimping tool is different and you'll have to get used to it the DuPont connector has this really annoying thing that the back crimps are the wings aren't parallel they're actually ones up centered back the way on one slight afford the wind they're designed crisscross as they set up baton so I kind of screwed that up there I'm just going to use a pair of pliers to mush that that is so unprofessional or can I use the little thing in the tip to squeeze that no I can't I had a feeling that was all gonna go wrong this is me recommend this tool but I have to say the PA or nein does exactly the same thing the only difference is that we're at that as that crimp now easily air with a P or known it doesn't right anyway I'm going to try one more crimp and it's going to be the X age the GST connector one having screwed up the other one so royally and interesting about these and it's quite an interesting thing the crimps that go in here it's quite a clever design it's designed to save space and make the crimp very short so it goes into that housing out I'm looking for my pen where is my pen i've lost my pen have I lost my cam could it be because it's buried under loads of crimping tools I haven't meeting such a mess of this video this accusing happens I've thrown it into my toolbox that's why okay hey the GST terminals are very interesting because to save space they've got a box section at the front and the Box section has a little it's got a tan coming down but it's also got a spring going up like that and that's a bit that the pin that's inserted actually rubs against makes a connection but then the actual restraint here has a little being is that grat grab the wire and the wings that grab the installation but when it's crimp down they both get crimped down into this area here and the pin can pass rate through above those in the housing it just means it saves space that the wire that the area the wires crimped is below the point that the pin actually goes into the housing let me see if I can successfully crimp one of these I don't crimp many of these so let me also go wrong thousands of the Malak see tape crimps very few of these I have not really had any cause to crimp these much let us get this tool and I shall attempt to crimp this let's see if I can actually not mess this up or maybe I should mess it up because that provides much more entertainment I screw things up and then because I never ever hide stuff when I finish go wrong they always get you in this channel it's embarrassing but you know what it's real life it's what happens it happens to you it happens to me so one advantage of this there there crimping system of it the wire being under the crimp pin is that you don't have to worry an awful lot about the wires going in too far so that said just gone into the crimping area I have folded that round didn't take a lot of pressure into the one point nine which is the next size up for the insulation bit Allah says squeezes that wings together bit and there shall elect them up before crimping it and quick squeeze in that is crimp that oh god I really have actually screwed up again ah right anyway as I was saying of all the tools I've tested when things have been going well the one that has been the best for just simple use on a wide range of connectors is the iaws - 8 - om it's one of the most affordable it is quite precisely engineered and if you're using it properly it does pretty good crimps a follow-up this one did work on these little X hold on I'm gonna try that again let's see I can screw another one up let's say put this one in here into this posh crimping tool there's nothing quite like the pressure of making a video to make everything go wrong it's a bit like tomorrow's world if you lived in the UK that era there was a sci-fi program must sci-fi program was a sci-fi it was a science program better we've described it and a it was called tomorrow's world and they demonstrated all his technology but it was all done live and so much went wrong it was amazing it was just half the fun of the show was the fact that presenters kept their cool like Judith Hahn and the other presenters would just tie on as if nothing had happened but you could see and their faces I was like oh no it's gone wrong again yeah doing this under the pressure of making a video is absolutely not fun at all I really need to get more practice in Ruthie's although having said that I would tend to use my preferred tool is that producing a good result that has produced a perfect crimp let's put that into one of the housings I think this may actually be the one the tool here that I'd use for the GST type crimp since I've got it anyway let's slide that in and it's clicked let's see what gives Oh my fingers are giving the Tang Gibbs so that's good that's a really good crimp so in short despite the fact I've not done a very good job of actually presenting this and very good light I would say the preferred tool for on a budget is going to be something like this the iaws 282 or M the more high-profile tool you've got a choice for these style of crimps the s no.1 BM did arch they're decent job I don't know what the torrents will be like between different brands and then this one of the more expensive tools but well not the most expensive tool though the one that seems to have the most professionally machined tips here the iaws 3 to 200 m that seems very good it does actually list which connectors it's designed to work with I've just misplaced that let's see what it is it lists it for use with Jam molex click mate take OD 1000 GST s HD molex pickle bleed take OD 1000 and probably others as I've tested it with but there we go there's a huge range of crimping tools whichever one you get you're going to have to get a feel for it there's no way around that you're gonna have to get used to using it because the more versatile ones just have that slight learning curve associated with them and once you've been using it for a while as with this style of crimping 2 when I first got it as I see it until I'd twigged out how to put them in I thought it was going to be fast and the initial that the first crimps took so long and I screwed so many up that was just really agitated at the beginning but once you've sussed it once you get used to using it I can literally just stick a crimp in close it down pop the wire in and crimp and that's it done and when you're meeting the props with like hundreds of these connections so they could be built into the props later on your wiring limbs that kind of you know it took a long time but it made sense to actually use the crimping tool and connectors like that but there we go there's a huge range of available summer and some are pretty good and but the iris definitely impressed me they are definitely seem to be one of the better quality tools

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Keywords: sn-28b, sn01-bm, engineer, pa-09, iwiss, fsa-0626, iws-2820m, iws-3220m, jyk, molex, dupont, jst, connector, crimp, crimping, tool, terminal, test

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Length: 31min 24sec (1884 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 09 2020