Tried two different crimp tools on a recent harness job

We had to re-pin a connector on a King Air's autopilot harness last week. I used my old manual ratchet tool on half the pins and a newer pneumatic one on the other half. The pneumatic tool gave a perfect crimp every single time, about 40 pins total, with zero visual inspection fails. The manual one had two that needed rework. The consistency and speed difference was huge, especially on a tight schedule. Anyone else made a switch to a specific tool that just made a repetitive job way more reliable?

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barbara_jenkins6622d ago

Honestly, it's just two pins out of forty. We're talking about a difference you can barely see. I've used a basic hand tool for twenty years and never had a connector fail in service. Sometimes I think we overcomplicate simple jobs with fancy gear that just adds cost and another thing to calibrate.

maxl9322d ago

Disagree with the premise. Those two pins handle all the power and ground, so a bad crimp there is a real problem. Your luck doesn't change the engineering.

wren23022d ago

Used to think that too until a bad crimp killed a board.