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Pros & Cons
Pros
For the money, it's well worth owning your own. Ordered and arrived quickly. Works well for the intended purpose.
This swage tool crimps with ease and the cutters cuts cable quick and easy! Works perfectly for repairing my wire winch cable with 1/4 cable. Compressing the swaging tool to complete the 5/16 crimp took some effort, but wasn't impossible.
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Quality
We received this 2nd item in one day very good quality thank you!
Was able to use this product very easily and it was very satisfied with the instructions.
Wouldn't call this a high quality tool though.
It arrived with the arms together, but i haven't figured out how to get it back to that state yet.
Price
This tool absolutely works and the price is reasonable.
Works exactly as supposed to, best price i found.
Shipping
Shipping was fast, and i have no complaints.
Packaging/appearance
The only reason i didn’t give it five stars for easy to use is that i had to have help holding the cable while i used the crimper.
Competitiveness
Decent price and it crimps like a champ.
Have only tested it on 1/16 aluminum stops and ferrules over stainless wire, but it performs beautifully and far nicer than usi... Read More
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- This product had a total of 390 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 18 2023.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
For me it ended up working best to place one handle on the ground and lean on the other to get it started
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If they could add some different mechanical advantage it would help but if that increased price which i’m sure it would i’ll keep working out
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It is a heavy duty tool but easily crimps 14 wire cable aluminum sleeves
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
However on receipt mine was almost impossible to actuate
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
No amount of oil would free it up
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Turns out the tension was set too tight at the factory
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I removed the small keeper bolt on the head and removed the thin plate that holds the tension bolts in place
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Before i owned it i had to go to the nearest hardware store and borrow and or rent the tools to repair it
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