Pros & Cons
Pros
The pins are crimped beautifully. Even though crimping a terminal is 3 steps, it actually saves you time because with a bit of care, every crimp is good.
Used these crimpers on kk and jst series terminals. I assemble jst-zh connectors with it and it is agile enough to crimp these extremely small connectors solidly. If you crimp any jst sm or molex, then this is the tool for you.
Cons
It does a fairly poor poor job at the latter, on jst pins. Too much time and poorly crimped pins wasted to get a few cables built. Then they tell you there may be a restocking charge.
Highlights
Quality
They seem like they may be expensive, but if you're looking for crimpers that do that many sizes for the quality, you can't beat the value.
True, it's more expensive but the quality of this tool pays for itself as the japanese engineering and manufacturing involved i... Read More
Lesser quality crimpers were hit and miss, regarding crimping success.
) and the quality of this tool means it could very well be the last *small* hand crimper that i will need to buy.
Price
I liked the price, the precision and the ease of use.
But the price is a bit crazy, it can be found for much, much less.
Shipping
This ended up as the most expensive hand tool i've bought in years -- as i had to pay for express shipping to get these in a co... Read More
Packaging/appearance
Not to mention you cannot replace the jaw(or the tip).
One thing i did not like at first is the crimper lock.
Competitiveness
Well made and versatile if you don't need a crimper optimized for speed and a single type of crimp.
I've had a few pairs of crimpers, and this by far exceeds all of them.
I know it sounds silly to rave about a crimper but i would dread wiring because of crimping.
I have to admit, i questioned buying a $64 pair of crimpers, especially after they arrived.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Expensive handle instantly slipped off but makes damn good crimps
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It took some time to break in the jaws and at first i had difficulty extracting a crimped connector from the tool
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I am inexperienced when it comes for crimping
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The way i understood is that these crimpers are not a single shot version
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
So you have to crimp twice for a single connector
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The second thing is to remember is that these is only useful for a small set of connectors and the variation of the size for is also not too much
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Not to mention you cannot replace the jawor the tip
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I have 4 other ratchet style crimping tools including the sn28b and i wasted about 100 crimps in trying to get it right and never could