I recently got a fixer upper boat that will require me building a lot of cables and crimping a lot of battery ends. The finished product will have 4 batteries and lots of thick wire running everywhere. I will need to do quite a bit of crimping. I have been looking at hydraulic crimpers and came up with three finalists. The crimper has to be strong in order to crimp tinned wire on to thick lugs, and have proper sizes. I might in the future use it for other things such as high amp electric service for welders or farm use.
If anyone has other suggestions than what I came up with, I am open to suggestions.
One thing I have noticed is the two bottom ones are not sized to AWG. They are to mm2. When I look at the conversion chart, the dies could be too loose or too tight. Under the reviews for the Harbor Freight crimper, some say the dies are too tight which makes me wonder if they did not simply re label the dies to AWG when they are really metric.
I already have professional wire crimpers that will go all the way to 6AWG insulated or non insulated and can handle multiple styles of connectors, so the smaller dies are not necessary.
These are the finalists:
Harbor Freight Hydraulic Wire Crimping Tool
16 Ton Hydraulic Wire Terminal Crimper
10-Ton Hydraulic Crimping Battery Cable Wire Crimper
If anyone has other suggestions than what I came up with, I am open to suggestions.
One thing I have noticed is the two bottom ones are not sized to AWG. They are to mm2. When I look at the conversion chart, the dies could be too loose or too tight. Under the reviews for the Harbor Freight crimper, some say the dies are too tight which makes me wonder if they did not simply re label the dies to AWG when they are really metric.
I already have professional wire crimpers that will go all the way to 6AWG insulated or non insulated and can handle multiple styles of connectors, so the smaller dies are not necessary.
These are the finalists:
Harbor Freight Hydraulic Wire Crimping Tool
16 Ton Hydraulic Wire Terminal Crimper
10-Ton Hydraulic Crimping Battery Cable Wire Crimper