On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, C Fernandez wrote:
Tothwolf wrote:
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.
I have a Ideal crimper and Ideal connectors, unfortunately, I can't find
them right now to look at them more closely. Any idea who actually
makes the Ideal connectors?
Some of them were made by Stewart Connector
http://www.belfuse.com/StewartConnector/ (now owned by Bel Fuse). Those
from Stewart tend to be of fairly high quality, but
I've also come across
some poor quality no-name plugs in the Ideal kits in the
past too. Stewart
also made (makes?) the plugs that GMP
http://www.gmptools.com/ sells under
their brand.
Speaking of which, if you are into high end modular plug tooling, one of
the best plug pressers out there for day to day use is the one from GMP
http://www.gmptools.com/nf/index_MPP.htm
I personally own 4 of them, and if it weren't for the fact that the resale
on them tends to only be about 30% of what they cost new, I'd sell off the
brand new one that's in with my spare tools. One that I own is in the kit
type case and the other 3 are in holsters.
For general purpose RJ45 crimping, I still rather enjoy using the Paladin
8000 series handle with either the WE/SS or AMP die sets. It doesn't
require any break over force and I find its almost as nice to use as the
GMP plug presser.
I can't
afford cheap tools :)
That sounds like Tony.... and I agree, I don't like cheap tools. Onve
in a while, I'll buy something less expensive if I know I'm not going to
be using it a lot, and the money would be better used someplace else.
Hopefully, the Ideal crimper that I bought is pretty good.... I
certainly paid enough for it....and have hardly used it.
The ratchet version of the Ideal Telemaster isn't too bad, and I carry one
in with my spare tools, but its not my first choice and I don't think I've
used it in about 3 years now. The non-ratchet version is just junk IMO
though.
-Toth