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Message: #70503
Subject: Re: Battery cables
Re: Battery cables
From: Robert Reed <robertr237(at)att.net>
Date: Jul 04, 2018


Agreed that the HF dies were not as indicated, especially if using welding c
ables but ignored the indicated numbers and used the die that gave the crimp
ed connection that I needed. 

Bob Reed
Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 4, 2018, at 10:17 AM, Robert L. Nuckolls, III <nuckolls.bob@aeroele
ctric.com> wrote:
> 
> At 05:24 AM 7/4/2018, you wrote:
>> Art,
>> I have a Harbor Freight set of hydraulic squeezers that work great for th
at.  It has a big set of fittings for every size.
>> 
>> Ron Burnett
>> 
> 
>   Take a proposed 4 or 2 awg terminal with
>   you when you go crimp-tool shopping at HF.
>   I purchased one a few years ago where
>   the numbers stamped on the die-sets had
>   no practical relationship to reality.
>   The actual hex-holes were way to small for
>   the numbers in evidence.
> 
>   Don't know if that's changed/improved
>   but it's worth checking.
> 
>   When the HF hydraulic tool proved 
>   inadequate to the job, I soldered the
>   terminals on . . .
> 
>   Works good, lasts a long time  . . .
> 
> 
>   Bob . . .


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