Posted by Ben on December 23, 04 at 12:57:23:
In Reply to: What I did... posted by 95Tahoe on December 23, 04 at 12:33:20:
There's a whole lot of pre-engineered stuff there.
Hope you cut the "sleeve" along the seam. The "sleeve" is called the barrel of the lug. The flat part is the blade.
The barrel has a seam there and on the better has it brazed over. Hope you cut your new "slot" along the seam, otherwise a portion of the barrel might fall off, as it's not connected to the rest of the barrel.
Part of the pre-engineered stuff is that the crimper won't go past a certain compression. Past and it will cut the wire and it will fall off. It's also supposed to become a gas tight assembly, meaning the copper strands and the barrel become almost one and no voids for moisture/gas/etc to get in there to rot.
Also, on the better the barrel is longer and has some strain relief designed in...as long as the crimp is in the right place along the barrel.
The "other" side of the die/mandrel of the crimper has a pre-engineered radius and is designed for proper metal flow into and around that side and the ram side of the crimpler.
Think you'll fine, just make sure no moisture or some such gets on/into that crimp. Better yet, either recrimp with proper tool or solder the existing crimp, but make sure to NOT allow the solder to wick up the unsupported portion of the wire. Stress raiser and the wire will break in high vibration applications.
This info from Thomas and Betts training sessions. We had some nuclear installations, military instualltions and NASA stuff. The specifications spelled out required certification of the guys out on the shop. I joined because I was designing the stuff and needed to know. Above just a snipet of the info.