Buying/evaluating a used Harbor Freight hydraulic crimper?

For what it's worth, I have a HF, 16 ton HYD. crimper and it works great.Sometimes I also solder after crimping.
BTW, you can use the crimper for other things also.

Ever see a generator?

yadda-yadda-yadda-yadda-yadda vibration

24 hours a day 7 days a week except for shutdown maintenance.

Ever see a Lycoming small aircraft engine? Pilot and passengers are a mile in the air.

Ever see the inside of a Presolite or Ford FAA alternator? SOLID meaning NOT STRANDED stator wires inches long SOLDERED to rectifier plates.

OEM and FAA avoids the issue. Because an otherwise talented assembler may not have a talent to solder. With crimped connections rigid rote insures a termination is crimped correctly. Ever see those Vise Grip like pliers that have to be squeezed shut 100% before they will release?

People make up their own fallacies as to why rules are rules. For instance there are COMMON SENSE practices that say to STRAIN RELIEVE connectors or terminations.

This is a stud rectifier used in most large AC generators. See the hole in the stem? It's not for a nut and bolt. It's there to solder and guess what? Not only is it subject to generator vibration, the part is spinning 1,200 or 1,800 RPM. All SIX of them

Fallacies die

HARD

Terminate a 10 gauge wire with solder.

Then run the wire out a yard or two, coil it, with no support

Adhesive heat shrink is forbidden

yadda-yadda-yadda-yadda

for however long.

SNAP!

YIPEE! RUMOR PROVEN!

"lower the roof of the car.. think "rebel without a cause" , fill everything in with lead solder, sand and paint"

Yeah BABY!

CHOPPED and CHANNELED. 51 Mercuries were awesome for this. Went to school with ART HIMSL