Re: (ET) battery cables

[SteveS <Stevesgroups verizon net>]

Amazon too.

On 8/11/2013 6:39 PM, SteveS wrote:
> I think that's when I bought mine. I think they are marked in metric 
> so you do have to play around a bit, but it becomes pretty clear which 
> to use.
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> Mine says 'Best Power' (wonder where it was made??) Model YYQ-120A
> 10-120 mm^2 range
> 8 dies
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> Forget where I got it, and how much I paid, but I'm pretty sure I'm 
> too cheap to have paid over $100. It was new.
>
> Looks a lot like his:
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> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hydraulic-Crimping-Tool-Kit-16-Ton-Wire-Cable-Crimper-/330554371671 
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> but mine has fewer dies.
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> And here's a bunch of other ones:
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> http://www.ebay.com/bhp/hydraulic-cable-crimper
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> It is nice to use an appropriate (or nearly appropriate) tool for a job!
>
> -SteveS
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> On 8/11/2013 5:34 PM, David Roden (Akron OH USA) wrote:
> > 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?
> >
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