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I used mine to attach the terminals on a split charging system. The crimper comes with very limited instructions, but is easy to use in practice. The only slight difficulty I discovered, was that once the loose wire and terminal were inserted into the crimper it was a little awkward to hold the wire in place while swinging the hammer to make the joint secure. Ideally, using a second person, or a work bench to hold the wire or crimper is better. That said, I did eight terminals and they all came out well. Light weight and small size make it easy to store too.
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I bought this to crimp a few 25mm2 battery cable terminals on my boat. Much cheaper than the plier-type crimping tools, and I only had a few terminals to do. There were others of this design on the market, but I chose Draper because I have found them to be quality tools. Anyway, the little crimper worked fine. The scale on the side does not seem to be relevant. I think it's in AWG for one thing. For another, I just gave the anvil 3 good wallops with a club hammer and was happy. You need somewhere safe to do that of course: probably not on a boat or a paving slab. It took me a couple of shots to get my crimp straight. The trick is this. On the underside of the tool there is a cross (which creates a cross on the crimped terminal). My terminals had a seam. I found that if I carefully lined up the cross with the seam, the result was straight. I'm a happy bunny!Read full review
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I needed a longer length of battery cable and therefore decided to make my own. I had looked at other hand held battery cable crimpers but having used normal crimpers they need a good squeeze and the idea or squeezing a battery cable wasn't ideal. It was a picture of it mounted in a vice that was the clincher and having ordered and made my own cablesusing my vice it couldn't have been simpler to use. Ideal.
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Bought to crimp 6mm (cross section) cables in Anderson connectors. Does a brilliant job at a fraction of the cost of a good hand-held crimper. The main "punch" is spring loaded which holds the job in place while you clout it with a club hammer. I also used for some smaller crimping jobs (2.5mm cable) and it worked well for these too.
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Delighted with this purchase as it has made the important job of crimping connector ends a dawdle. With good preparation of the cable end(s) this tool can help create Very secure crimped unions. Decently weighted hammer needed to hammer down hard 2 - 3 times to complete the union. I would highly recommend.
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