Amazon hydraulic crimper
Wanted to give a report on this hydraulic crimper I picked up off Amazon for $37.30 Used it to crimp 4ga cable lugs today and it works very well, put a nice 4 sided crimp on the lug. The dies are mark...
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landyacht318 wrote:Thats the only reason I ended up with this one was the die set. Which is also likely the reason it's bite is twice as hard.
I wish I could just Buy those silver colored Dies for My HF crimper. Those silver dies are obviously larger than than the black ones which came with my '8 ton' HF crimper.
I've taken the smaller dies and ground/filed them out for 2awg and 6awg thick wall lugs so that they crimp without 'ears'. This is not hard but it is time consuming and there is too much room for error.
BTW- One of the ways to help from making ears on the lugs is to rotate them in the die each crimp. What you see in the pictures are probably 4-6 crimps: 2 with the #95 (notice 2 side by side), and 4 with #70. 2 medium hard, rotate, and finish off with the die totally closed. I'm not fast, but it's done right and pretty.
