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Had a brand new crimper snap mid-job yesterday afternoon
I was running coax through a drop ceiling in an office building near Scranton and my main crimper just gave out on the third fitting. Ended up having to finish the run with my backup Klein that I keep in the glove box, but it added 20 minutes to the job. Anybody else have a tool fail on them out of nowhere like that?
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willow6723d ago
OH MAN that is a nightmare scenario. But here is the angle nobody is thinking about: what if the crimper snapping actually SAVED you from a bigger problem later? I had a cheap crimper fail on me once and when I pried it open to fix it I saw the die was misaligned by like a millimeter. It had been squishing connectors slightly crooked for weeks and I never noticed until that exact moment. So that crimper dying probably meant your backup piece gave you a better connection than the broken one would have. Sometimes the tool knows when to quit before we do.
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