I tried using a cheap crimper on a D-sub connector job and it was a total mess compared to my good one.

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Come on, it's just a crimper. How bad could it really be? I've used the bargain bin ones before and they get the job done (mostly). Seems like maybe you just had a bad day with it.

david5621d ago

My last cheap crimper broke after 50 connectors. The dies were so soft they got notches in them.

the_brian1d ago

What's the actual failure rate on those cheap ones though? A few bad crimps out of a hundred is still way cheaper than buying the expensive tool for a one-off job. Sometimes good enough is actually good enough.

alice2691d ago

My buddy tried that "good enough" logic, the_brian. He had to redo every single connector on a small panel. The cheap crimper was crushing the insulation instead of crimping the metal part right. Took him three times as long to fix it all, and he still had a couple of intermittent faults later. That job killed any cost savings pretty fast.