22 Jan
2007
22 Jan
'07
4:02 p.m.
Tothwolf wrote:
Don't fool yourself, there is a lot involved in
making high quality
cables than just crimping on a couple of plugs.
Indeed.
I haven't seen his connectors, so I can't say
if he is using the "right"
connectors or not, but I do know that I've been buying AMP brand MMJ
plugs and I have genuine AMP tooling. The junk crimper he bought off of
eBay is a knock-off of the non-ratchet Ideal Telemaster. Anyone who has
done much in way of cable assembly knows how poorly those type of tools
preform. Short term, a cable made with that type of crimper might test
ok, but it isn't going to produce the consistent crimps that the AMP
crimper does so it may exhibit problems later.
Indeed. When I first started making my own MMJ console cables I used to
borrow the Ideal Telemaster of a local DEC dude. Then a couple of weeks
later, my brother bought me an Ideal Crimpmaster with a full set of
dies. The difference was like between night and day.
Peace... Sridhar