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Muddydogs
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Jul 04, 2015

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 marked in MM but from what I gather MM translates to AWG as follows. #4mm=12AWG, #6=10AWG, #8=8AWG, 10=6AWG, 16=4AWG, 25=2AWG, 35=1AWG, 50=1/0AWG, 70=2/0AWG though I used a 25 die on the 4 guage wire and lug and it crimped the heck out of it. Anyway its a good crimper for the money.

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  • Muddydogs's avatar
    Muddydogs
    Explorer
    Jul 04, 2015
    I found another chart that is more to what I figured out with the 4ga lugs.
    2/0 70
    1/0 70
    1 50
    2 35
    3 25
    4 25
    5 16
    6 16
  • Golden_HVAC's avatar
    Golden_HVAC
    Explorer
    Jul 04, 2015
    I had to crimp some really large 000 wire for my 1500 watt inverter.

    I used my 6" table vice. It worked really well, and the crimps did not release in the past 20 years. So good so far.

    Good luck on your project!

    Fred.

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