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The article said that Engineer PA-24 is good since it has cylindrical dies! I haven't tried it since I wanted to do the full crimp in one motion. Maybe that des
by alright2565 2y ago
The article said that Engineer PA-24 is good since it has cylindrical dies! I haven't tried it since I wanted to do the full crimp in one motion. Maybe that desire was irrational.
- alias_neo 2y agoI'm not entirely sure which one I have, since I seem to have misplaced it, It's a PA-2X, where I'm not sure what the X is. By "cylindrical dies" is it referring to the shape of the inside of one-side of the die? What's the alternative? I do recall that the design of the one I have, has little protrusions on one side of the die to encourage the wings to wrap under, so that they form a sort of m shape, with the ends of the wings "pressing" into the wire's sheathing for a nice grip. They cost somewhere in the region of £40-60 but I don't recall exactly. I need to go and find out why they're not on their hanger on the pegboard I'm looking at, where they should be.
- alright2565 2y agoThis is mini-pv, but dupont is the same concept: https://i.imgur.com/bV1zUkm.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/bV1zUkm.jpeg It's designed for an oval crimp around the insulation & a m-crimp on the wire. The typical cheap crimpers have two sizes of m-crimp, which is fine for a lot of JST connectors for example, but not this.
- alias_neo 2y agoAh, thanks for the explanation, that makes perfect sense. I've not seen an m-crimp on both sides yet, sounds like it wouldn't work very well at all unless you had two wings on the connector itself to m-crimp the ends of, which I've also never seen!