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Can we talk about how I was crimping D-sub pins wrong for 8 years?
So I was at a shop in Phoenix last month helping a buddy with a harness build. He watches me do a few pins and goes 'uh, you know that tool has a ratchet stop right?' I had no clue. I was just squeezing until it felt tight. Turns out I was crushing the insulation on half my pins. No wonder I had intermittent issues on those old King Radio units. Anyone else figure out a basic skill way later than they should have?
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jennifer_mitchell532mo ago
Did you at least save the old pins for art projects?
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emery87920d ago
I mean, is it really that big a deal though? You were using the tool, just not the fancy feature, and the crimps probably still worked more often than not. Plenty of avionics guys I know don't even mess with the ratchet stop on those frame style crimpers, they just go by feel and it's fine. Unless you were seeing actual failures left and right, sounds like you just found a slightly cleaner way to do something you already had working for almost a decade.
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