[s-cars] VLAC - need electrical crimper help

[Sean Douglas]

Dave:

The crimper pictured does a "w" crimp and is used on the terminals pictured
to the right. This is an OE style terminal. You are correct, it takes two
hits, one to crimp the bare wire and the other to crimp / grab the
insulation. IMHO, these type of terminals are the best and they are very
strong because it holds the wire in place.

If you are using open barrel butt connectors that are insulated, that are
typically found in generic parts stores, then you can use a generic crimping
tool that makes a half-moon shape. The crimper pictured does these crimps as
well.

If your butt connectors are uninsulated, then I recommend using a crimp tool
with a notch in it.

When I make a butt connection, I use uninsulated butt connectors, make the
crimp with a notch crimper and use heat shrink tubing, I find those generic
butt connectors to be very poor quality and not strong.

Hope this helps,

Sean

> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:s-car-list-
> bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of David Kase
> Sent: March 28, 2007 11:31 AM
> To: S-Cars
> Subject: [s-cars] VLAC - need electrical crimper help
> 
> I am making a harness to install relays for my RS2 headlights in my CQ.
> I purchased all the goodies to build it from www.waytekwire.com.  They
> have all the good stuff and cheap.
> Anyway, I did not buy the crimpers from them as they looked to be
> standard ones for $50 (ok, not cheap on everything).  I am looking to
> pick up a set of crimpers locally that will work on the open barrel
> connectors I need to install in the relay connectors.
> If you go here: http://order.waytekwire.com/IMAGES/M37/catalog/219_060.PDF
> and scroll to the bottom of the page you will see the terminals and the
> recommended crimpers.  I am trying to determine which feature in the
> crimper is needed to properly crimp these terminals.
> I thought the 'W' shaped feature crimped the longer wings at the end of
> the terminal to the wire insulation.  Is this right?  The only 'W'
> feature I found in crimpers I have seen are the large ones used for
> spark plug wires.
> Does this terminal require two hits to be crimped?  One for the bare
> wire and one for the insulation?
> Help!  I am clueless here.  Sorry for the VLAC but I am stuck.
> 
> TIA,
> Dave Kase
> headlightless CQ in my garage...
> 
> 
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