Recommendations for Wire Crimpers

[Stroppymonkey]

Have a little project on the go where I need to make up some 16mm2 cable ends. Lots of cheap crimpers about , but wondered if anyone had tried anything like these ?

 

[Lancs Lad]

Have a little project on the go where I need to make up some 16mm2 cable ends. Lots of cheap crimpers about , but wondered if anyone had tried anything like these ?

Still on manual here
Lmk.how you get on tho

eBay sellers never disappoint do they..."wedding decor"

 

[V8Druid]

Still on manual here
Lmk.how you get on tho

eBay sellers never disappoint do they..."wedding decor"

ditto .... way quicker and easier than pumping the tish out of one of them and trying to keep everything where it should be
50mm2 is still a blunt-ish chisel in a V block

 

[Stroppymonkey]

These look like they might be semi sensible compromise?

 

[Lancs Lad]

These look like they might be semi sensible compromise?
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0.5 to 16 ? I'd suggest they trying to much . Be damn un wieldy on 1mm

 

[Stroppymonkey]

0.5 to 16 ? I'd suggest they trying to much . Be damn un wieldy on 1mm

Yeah my little ones go up to 6mm2

Which ones do you use for 16mm2? Friend of mine has a cordless set

Annoyingly I carry a £1500 set of press kit in the van, but you can’t get awg adaptors for the plumbing press guns

 

[Lancs Lad]

Yeah my little ones go up to 6mm2

Which ones do you use for 16mm2? Friend of mine has a cordless set

Annoyingly I carry a £1500 set of press kit in the van, but you can’t get awg adaptors for the plumbing press guns

Mines old version of this iirc

Hex.Crimp Tool 6-50mm - SWA 2020

Hex.Crimp Tool 6-50mm - SWA is one of the UK's leading suppliers of cable terminations, fastenings, fixings and tools for the electrical and construction industries.

www.swaonline.co.uk

I'm away ATM so can't check but never let me down. I'm sure mine goes up to 75 though as I've deffo done some 75s on a Genny
For bootlace small stuff get the knipex if you feeling flush but recently bought another set of copy off Amazon and it's fine ..

https://amzn.eu/d/04hYYr5E

 

[V8Druid]

Mines old version of this iirc

Hex.Crimp Tool 6-50mm - SWA 2020

Hex.Crimp Tool 6-50mm - SWA is one of the UK's leading suppliers of cable terminations, fastenings, fixings and tools for the electrical and construction industries.

www.swaonline.co.uk

I'm away ATM so can't check but never let me down. I'm sure mine goes up to 75 though as I've deffo done some 75s on a Genny
For bootlace small stuff get the knipex if you feeling flush but recently bought another set of copy off Amazon and it's fine ..

https://amzn.eu/d/04hYYr5E

looks much like what I have, on both counts