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Supacat

Member Since: 16 Oct 2012
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 11018

2013 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS DCPU Keswick Green

Heavy Duty Hydraulic Crimping Tool

I hope nobody minds me pulling a couple of posts from another thread and going off on this tangent:

https://www.defender2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=832757#832757

excossack wrote:
New toy day, A hydraulic crimping tool so I can re-make the Anderson connector plugs amongst others. Saves using a vice with a home made crimp.

Supacat wrote:
excossack wrote:
New toy day, A hydraulic crimping tool so I can re-make the Anderson connector plugs amongst others. Saves using a vice with a home made crimp.

Mulling over one of these for some wire cables ~ struggling to see the difference from the cheapest Amazon ones for around £30 and some specialist suppliers asking £120.

What one did you go for, and any comments on the choices?

LandRoverAnorak wrote:
I bought a cheap one from eBay a couple of years ago to help with making up wiring for a split charge arrangement. For £23 I really couldn't fault it. Probably not suitable if using these things is your day job but for the occasional DIY project it's brilliant.

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excossack wrote:
Supacat wrote:
excossack wrote:
New toy day, A hydraulic crimping tool so I can re-make the Anderson connector plugs amongst others. Saves using a vice with a home made crimp.

Mulling over one of these for some wire cables ~ struggling to see the difference from the cheapest Amazon ones for around £30 and some specialist suppliers asking £120.

What one did you go for, and any comments on the choices?

£25 quid from Ebay. 10 ton - YQK-70. I have used a friends one a few times, and worked well.
Ebay seller iangeo9 - only 13 feed back but arrived with in time. Ordered 17th May at 19:50 arrived this morning.

Covers all the cables I will need.
Same as LRA in the pic above this post.

23rd May 2020 9:03am

Supacat

Member Since: 16 Oct 2012
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 11018

Thanks for the details of the tools posted

I was favouring the type that has a steel pin insert rather than a C shaped arm to hold the die. It seems a better design and should be stronger in two similarly sized tools?

I was trying to work out the difference between this - STEEL WIRE ROPE HYDRAULIC CRIMPING AND SWAGE TOOL YQK-300 at £119.99

https://www.gsproducts.co.uk/steel-wire-ro...ping-tool/

and say this one at £40.95:

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/ReaseJoy-Hydrauli...amp;sr=8-1

or this one -sold without dies for £228:

https://www.s3i.co.uk/hydraulic-crimping-pliers.php

23rd May 2020 9:27am

Pacha

Member Since: 23 Feb 2020
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 772

2008 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 HT Stornoway Grey

I would suspect the first 2 pictures are the same tool. Rgds.

Chris

23rd May 2020 9:41am

blackwolf

Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: South West England
Posts: 16875

2007 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 DCPU Stornoway Grey

The mark-up and what the target market will stand, I'd suggest! They all appear to be made of Chinesium, so I doubt that there's much difference in quality.

23rd May 2020 10:23am

rallysteve

Member Since: 10 Feb 2014
Location: Cumbria
Posts: 2199

2002 Defender 110 Td5 DCPU Keswick Green

The only real difference in quality between them that you will notice in use is the quality of the dies. They will all do decent crimps.

It is worth noting that the terminal shown crimped earlier (assuming there is a slit in the tube section which it looks as though there is) is not the correct type of terminal for a compression hex crimp. It should be an indentation type crimp

I have had one of the chinesium ones for years and it is great.

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23rd May 2020 11:39am

Joe the Plumber

Member Since: 18 Dec 2013
Location: Midlands
Posts: 907

2014 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 HT Fuji White

I bought one of the 'YQK 240' ones from Amazon a few months back to make up some new battery cables for our boat. It was less than £38.

It works very well, but the dies are all too large for the numbers stamped on them. I had to use the 50mm ones to properly crimp a 70mm cable.

There's a fantastic video here showing how to do the job properly:

23rd May 2020 3:59pm

DuncanS

Member Since: 07 Dec 2013
Location: Cumbria
Posts: 295

2008 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 USW Santorini Black

I use the cheap yellow ebay hydraulic crimpers and they are spot on. Occasionally they leave a small flange of metal on the outside of the crimp, but some quick wiggle with pliers soon snaps those bits off. The head will also clamp into a vice which is useful for doing it by yourself. North Cumbria Search and Rescue - Team Leader

23rd May 2020 4:58pm

Supacat

Member Since: 16 Oct 2012
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 11018

Joe the Plumber wrote:
I bought one of the 'YQK 240' ones from Amazon a few months back to make up some new battery cables for our boat. It was less than £38.

It works very well, but the dies are all too large for the numbers stamped on them. I had to use the 50mm ones to properly crimp a 70mm cable.

There's a fantastic video here showing how to do the job properly:

Thanks ~ I quite enjoy watching little videos like that.

So does anyone know what the YQK in YQK 240 and YQK 300 stand for? I assume the 240/300 refers to the maximum size for the crimp.

23rd May 2020 5:07pm

Pacha

Member Since: 23 Feb 2020
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 772

Yep - max crimp size. Rgds.

Chris

23rd May 2020 5:18pm

Supacat

Member Since: 16 Oct 2012
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 11018

Thanks.

Do you know what the YQK stands for?

24th May 2020 9:54am

blackwolf

Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: South West England
Posts: 16875

I think it is either the Anglicised form of the initials of the manufacturer, TAIZHOU YINDU TOOLS CO. LTD. in Chinese, or the Anglicised form of the initial letters of Yindu Crimping Tool in Chinese.

24th May 2020 10:35am

Supacat

Member Since: 16 Oct 2012
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 11018

Thanks - I see they have quite a range of crimping tools:

http://www.yindutools.com/en/Products.asp?SortID=7#content

24th May 2020 11:14am

excossack

Member Since: 22 Feb 2012
Location: North West
Posts: 5740

1999 Defender 110 Td5 SW Caledonian Blue

I used the crimp tool yesterday with 16mm2 Anderson connectors. The cable I was usin was a little smaller than the inside if the crimp end. I tried with a 16mm crimp and wasnt enough so stepped down to 10mm and that held fast.
For the price I paid, I am happy with it. Certainly makes the job easier. 1999 Defender TD5 110

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24th May 2020 11:24am

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