Re: (ET) battery cables

["David Roden (Akron OH USA)" <etpost drmm net>]

On 11 Aug 2013 at 13:10, Jeff Antonucci wrote:

> Harbor freight sells a good kit with several size dies for the different
> wire gauges.  I use mine all the time.

There was quite a bit of discussion about this kit a few years ago on the 
(road) EV list.  A lot of folks were interested because it's MUCH cheaper 
than the name brand crimpers and dies.  A top-shelf Thomas and Betts hex 
crimper from Grainger costs over $800 with a set of dies!  They have a 
Burndy for "only" $545.  Either of these is a pro caliber tool, probably 
something you'll pass on to your kid, but that's a heck of a lot of moolah 
for a tool you'll only use a few (or even a few dozen) times.

However, some of the participants in that discussion said that the HF 
crimper's dies were the wrong sizes (or else were marked wrong), and you 
had 
to sort of experiment until you found the right one for the lug you were 
crimping - and that for some lugs there wasn't one that was entirely 
right.  
IIRC, one person suggested that they might really be metric dies that had 
been "re-purposed" for US lugs.

I take it you haven't had any such problems?