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Why does nobody talk about the weird static you get from those cheap crimpers?
Had a King Air in the shop last month and spent two hours chasing a comms glitch, turned out my old crimper was slightly deforming the pins. What's your go-to brand for D-sub connectors now?
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fox.derek6mo ago
Wait, your uncle's crimper from 1995 still works? That's wild! I've had brand new ones fall apart after a year. It really shows how much the build quality has gone down. Finding a tool that old still doing the job is a small miracle. Makes me wonder if we should all just be hunting in old toolboxes at garage sales.
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andrew_gonzalez886mo ago
My uncle's old crimper left a weird burr on every pin. I found a Swiss-made one in his toolbox from like 1995 that still works perfectly.
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emery196mo ago
Oh man, that static is the worst. I had the same headache with a cheap set that never seated the pins flush. My shop swears by the Jonard Tools crimper now, the one with the blue handle. It's got a solid feel and the die doesn't wobble. We haven't had a single callback for a bad crimp since we switched over. It just makes a clean, solid connection every time.
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