I need to repair a wire on my car. I have decided to go down the crimping route and use a butt splice.. I have 2 crimp tools a cheap Draper one with oval closure and a slightly more expensive ratchet crimper with an oval closure on one jaw and a raised square 'tooth' on the other jaw.. My question is which tool should I use for an insulated round butt splice crimp? A clean compression with the cheap tool or a the one leaving an imprint on the crimp?
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Crimpng for idiots
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Get some scrap wire and see which works best.
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Aircraft inline splices are uninsulated and are covered with a heatshrink boot. Go see the fairies, get a selection from them, use the more expensive crimp tool and then use a heat gun to insulate the crimp.
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Well, that's not strictly true is it! ;-)
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In what way?
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You are referring to the Raychem range of splices, there are also plenty of PIDG types knocking about in both the mil and civil aviation world.
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I think my old Ford Cortina weighed an extra 2Lb, with all the extra 'Spade Connectors' that I bought and used from Halfords every Sunday morning.
Gosh, anything new, flash looking and electrical got hot wired in; bugger to start sometimes....
Gosh, anything new, flash looking and electrical got hot wired in; bugger to start sometimes....