I went with a cheap one and regret it. Half the time the connections fail wasting my time and a connector. Loren H. Burlingame wrote: >I just have to chime in with a bump for the Ideal ($40 Home Depot) >crimper. After using first a cheap plastic pos and then a >slightly-less-pos generic brand metal crimper, I am convinced that I >have the best crimper tool money can buy. > >It is not that the other tools did not work. It is that they did not >work well and would often fail to get all of the pins pushed all the >way down. > > >On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:17:11 -0600, steve ulrich <sulrich at botwerks.org> wrote: > > >>when last we saw our hero (Wednesday, Dec 08, 2004), >> John Meier was madly tapping out: >> >> >> >> >>><snip> >>> >>> >>>>Home Depot has an Ideal brand >>>>crimper >>>> >>>> >>>So if the original poster needs, I have the above mentioned crimper, >>>wire and the plug ends - and I'm in bloomington - home all day You >>>could test it out before you buy and make a cross-over!! >>> >>>My crimper is from Home depot, but I upgraded it a bit.... It's far >>>better than ANYTHING out there... I should really put my Crimper mod >>>up on the Internet so others can benefit.... >>> >>> >>color me more than a little curious as to your mod. i've been using >>what i consider to be the best crimper ever [1] for going on 6 or so >>years now. i've crimped probably thousands of cable ends, definitely >>several hundred, with mine and i've only broken one die. >> >>{ snipped - misc .signatures } >> >>references >>---------- >>http://www.milestek.com/shop/product.asp?id=40%2020031&cid=710&kwd=MTTTLCTMOD&l=516&p=Tools+%26+Testers >> >>-- >>steve ulrich sulrich at botwerks.org >>PGP: 8D0B 0EE9 E700 A6CF ABA7 AE5F 4FD4 07C9 133B FAFC >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org >>Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery >>tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list