Battery Cable Crimpers

shooted wrote:

Bob Landry wrote:

OldF**t wrote:

Tom_M wrote:
There are also crimpers that you strike with a hammer or ones that mount in a vice.

X2. The hammer type such as this one work ok for occasional use. Doesn't make sense to spend big $$ just to crimp a couple of terminals.

In the case of only needing a couple of them done, why not go to a battery or alternator shop and get made to fit cables with quality crimps instead of spending any money at all on an inferior tool that is going to give a less than satisfactory result. The only one who wins there is the guy who made the tool and distributed it, certainly not the end user. I'm wondering how many people who are advocating using these things have actually done so. They make a marginally OK crimp up to about size 6 wire, but when you get into the big cables, that's another issue all together. But, as the old saying goes, you pays your money and takes your chances.

Please include me in your tally on the number of people who own and use a hammer crimper to their satisfaction.

Don't know, don't care. I do not speak for others as they often have different levels of expectations If you have one and like it, or have had crimps done for you using them and are satisfied, that's all that matters and I'm pleased for you. I personally have used them and did not care for the results, and neither would have my customers that I have built cables for.