[Elecraft] OT: Crimping small wires

[Fred Jensen]

Best is to size the terminal to the wire correctly, but your method 
works just fine if you only need a pair and the terminal is too big.

I'm somewhat bewildered by all the APP problems being brought up.  I 
have the Powerwerx crimper, I've probably put together over 50 pairs of 
APP's and I've never had a problem.  Not one.  I've never had them 
disengage by themselves, and I've never had the wire pull out.  The 
crimper does an identical crimp every time.

I do *not* solder the terminal for the same reason one doesn't want to 
put strain on soldered connections like on a dipole antenna.  The heat 
will harden the copper making it more likely to break under strain. 
More of a problem with solid wire than stranded.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
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On 12/11/2013 9:41 AM, Edward R Cole wrote:

> I do not know if this will work with powerpole connectors.  My problem
> was having too large diameter wire for the powerpole connectors which
> inhibited proper crimping; solution chose proper size connector for the
> wire size selected.