An example of a low cost crimper for those terminals. The real professional
types have cam lock action to make sure the crimp is proper. Something like
this will do the job though.

Dennis

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CRIMPER-TOOL-OPEN-BARREL-DEUTSCH-MOLEX-TYCO-AMP-DELP
HI-HARLEY-WIRING-TERMINALS-/251095090154?pt=Race_Car_Parts&hash=item3a766f03
ea&vxp=mtr

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neil n
Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 9:47 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Electrical "Locking" Terminal Info + Question

Ok. I see.

I agree. It seems these terminals require a different crimper than I have. I
did find that using the tool one way, then reversing it kind of worked but
the result looks nothing like an OEM crimp.

Neil.

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> I may be mistaken, But I thought I've seen a crimper that does the crimp
on the tabs that go on the insulation, and the tabs that go on the bare wire
all in one go. In any case, they are different crimps aren't they?
>
>
> alistair
>
>
> On 2013-02-08, at 6:11 PM, neil n wrote:
>
>> I just tried this crimper:
>>
>> https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zyZKAft7JCg/SpQxyVc5saI/AAAAAAAABJ
>> Y/jntIVXPL-8M/s752/AuxBatteryWireCrimp.jpg

>>> On 2013-02-08, at 5:34 PM, neil n wrote:

>>>> http://www.picocanada.com/en/product/135.php

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