Cable crimping tools

[GUMPY]

4 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

hair dryer doesn't really cut it for heat shrink on heavy cables and lugs. I have an old electric paint stripper, left over from my house owning days.

I have been known to use the cooker gas flame on heatshrink when I have forgotten my heatshrink gun.😱

 

[Puffling]

The hammer-set die-and-anvil crimpers seem to work better with lugs having a longer sleeve. This allows you to get two crimp spots in along the bared ends of the cable. More contact area, better holding power.

 

When I first did my battery wiring I used lugs from Vehicle Wiring Products, whose 45mm CSA lugs come with generously proportioned sleeves. Sleeves so long you could wipe your nose on them in cold weather should you need to. Since then, I've had to buy other lugs. Neither Midland Chandlers nor Amazon sell lugs with sleeves that amount to more than 2/3 of the VWP ones.

 

Oh, and @Jen-in-Wellies, I'd recommend a tree stump or short log ( used lengthwise) for the base supporting your anvil. I already have a chunky log onboard for log splitting with my axe, and it gives just the right level of firmness and vibration damping. Used off the boat, of course.

11 minutes ago, GUMPY said:

I have been known to use the cooker gas flame on heatshrink when I have forgotten my heatshrink gun.😱

 

Small camping stove. Portable and ideal for use in close proximity to potentially explosive battery gases and diesel fumes.

[GUMPY]

8 minutes ago, Puffling said:

camping stove. Portable and ideal for use in close proximity to potentially explosive battery gases and diesel fumes.

No I use the one in the kitchen.

I never make up cables when they are connected in situ always make them elsewhere.

 

[rusty69]

4 minutes ago, GUMPY said:

14 minutes ago, Puffling said:

 

No I use the one in the kitchen.

Same here. Obviously not your kitchen, I think you would have noticed.

 

Mrs R was particualrily impressed when i applied heatshrink to 60 odd bus bars for the lithiums.

[MtB]

37 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

I have an old electric paint stripper, left over from my house owning days.

 

First time I've ever heard of electric paint. Do you have any further details please? Sounds jolly useful. 

 

 

[rusty69]

6 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

First time I've ever heard of electric paint. Do you have any further details please? Sounds jolly useful. 

 

 

Surely you have heard of electric blue?

[Rincewind]

3 minutes ago, MtB said:

First time I've ever heard of electric paint. Do you have any further details please? Sounds jolly useful.

 

Black, Red, Brown (or Electric Blue) paint is great but that green and yellow striped paint is the devil to apply

[Tonka]

7 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

First time I've ever heard of electric paint. Do you have any further details please? Sounds jolly useful. 

 

 

I have a feeling you use electric paint on wrought iron work. You connect up the fence and I think the brush and the electrical action helps the paint stick

I am going to Google it now

[Jen-in-Wellies]

9 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

First time I've ever heard of electric paint. Do you have any further details please? Sounds jolly useful. 

 

 

Afraid not, I removed it all with the stripper ages ago. Can't even remember what colour it was. Possibly electric blue? Might even have been electric green and yellow stripes!

[Tonka]

2 minutes ago, Tonka said:

I have a feeling you use electric paint on wrought iron work. You connect up the fence and I think the brush and the electrical action helps the paint stick

I am going to Google it now

https://dcs-ind.com/2014/06/19/your-home-the-science-of-electrostatic-painting-on-wrought-iron/

 

Found it electrostatic painting

 

 

Apparently you get electric paint sprayers

[blackrose]

I borrowed a pair of these recently to crimp inverter and some battery terminals. It does a great job and it's easy to use. You don't necessarily need hydraulic crimpers but these are no cheaper.

 

https://gtse.co.uk/copper-tube-terminal-crimping-tool-range-10-0mm2-95-0mm2

Edited July 15, 2023 by blackrose

[Batavia]

On 14/07/2023 at 09:31, MtB said:

 

First time I've ever heard of electric paint. Do you have any further details please? Sounds jolly useful. 

 

 

Try Aquadag!

[MtB]

20 minutes ago, Batavia said:

Try Aquadag!

 

Sounds like a new type of weed....

 

[David Schweizer]

On 14/07/2023 at 09:45, Tonka said:

https://dcs-ind.com/2014/06/19/your-home-the-science-of-electrostatic-painting-on-wrought-iron/

 

Found it electrostatic painting

 

 

Apparently you get electric paint sprayers

 

More than fifty years ago, when I worked in the furniture industry, we used electrostatic paint to enamel metal chair frames. Basicly the frames were suspended on an overhead gantry, and a current run through them, the paint, which is in powder form was then sprayed onto the frames. They were then carried on the gantry into a heated booth, "melting" the powder into paint which adhered to the frames. Any paint powder which fell to the floor of the spraying booth was collected and re-cycled back into the powder tank.

 

 

Edited July 15, 2023 by David Schweizer

[Alan de Enfield]

On 14/07/2023 at 09:39, Rincewind said:

 

Black, Red, Brown (or Electric Blue) paint is great but that green and yellow striped paint is the devil to apply

 

I wonder how you'd apply the paint on this Scottish camper van we parked next to ............

 

 

 

Edited July 15, 2023 by Alan de Enfield

[Hudds Lad]

46 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

I wonder how you'd apply the paint on this Scottish camper van we parked next to ............

 

 

 

How could you tell it was Scottish?  

[ditchcrawler]

22 hours ago, Hudds Lad said:

How could you tell it was Scottish?  

More likely American

[Tracy D'arth]

23 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

I wonder how you'd apply the paint on this Scottish camper van we parked next to ............

 

 

 

Tartan paint comes from the same place as striped and spotted paint.

[Hudds Lad]

41 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:

Tartan paint comes from the same place as striped and spotted paint.

The aisle next to the skyhooks, long stands, glass hammers & spirit level bubbles?

[Bod]

Sprit level bubbles?

 

Bod.

[ditchcrawler]

Just now, Bod said:

Sprit level bubbles?

 

Bod.

I may still have some in the garage, my dad had several spares 

[David Mack]

13 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

I may still have some in the garage, my dad had several spares 

And now I have one as an app on my phone.