/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1701417
I had a cheap one from Home Depot that was made of plastic.
It was completely worthless.

The generic all metal ones might be fine.
I’ve had one of those and had no issues with it.

>>1701417
never worked with RJ connectors but don't cheap out on crimping tools they might all look the same
but the quality of the crimp hugely depends on the tolerances the tool is manufactured to
I used to really hate crimped connections because they would always come lose using diy tier tools
then i got a summer job at an aerospace company and used pic related, holy shit was it good every crimp came out perfect and super strong

Lol homeless despot

Ideal ft-45
Would recommend, very much so. Good price and very easy termination style. The conductors come through the end so you don't have to perfect the length when putting the plug on (google pictures for clarity)

The only thing that trumps it in my experience is a paladin 1300 crimper with rj45 dies installed, those things are ace. Very expensive though. Worth it if it's your job.

pressmaster

>>1701932
Normally I'd agree with you, but their RJ crimp is terrible

>>1702055
really? I've never had any problems with my mct frame and that p frame looks sexy af

>>1702370
I have one. Its okay but not terribly comfortable. And the die is single-size only, if you want to crimp any combo of 4, 6, 8, or 10 plug, you gotta swap dies.

Their other crimps, however, are best-in-class

>>1701794
>don't cheap out
cheap out and buy used
shit you posted is probably 300$ new but used maybe 60-100

>>1701819
Don't do what this anon says, the "straight-through" style RJ-45 connectors are retarded and their users should be euthanised,

Crimping force isn't really that critical because you'll end up crushing the plastic if you use too much, I find it's just best to get the cable properly aligned and cut before trying to insert it into the connector, that way, even the cheap chinky crimpers work.

>>1701417
Experienced crimper reporting. I've made 1000s of cables by hand.

The crimper doesn't matter once you get used to it, just practice. Get one where all force transfer between the die and your hand is metal, but other than that it doesn't matter.

The keys to crimp are:
1- Strip
2- pull each wire out individually and lay them in a row in the correct order. While you do this, bend it back and forth a little so the twist goes out of it.
3- Now bend the whole row back and forth a little so they are nice and neat
4- Cut the flat row of wires with the straight razor blade cutter thing in your crimpers so it's really nice and ever. Shitty crimpers have these, nice ones don't. I prefer shitty crimpers because they have these flat cutters.
5- insert the wires into the connector nice and hard, look at the end to make sure the wires are touching the end of the plastic. Push more if some aren't
6- crimp it.

After step 2, never lose your grip on the wires so they don't get out of order.

>>1701794
They use these so nobody can make wrong crimps. It's like the smart engineers building expensive and super foolproof shit and charging $$$ so retards can do the work.

>>1702482
I'd add trimming the conductors as short as practicable. I like to have the cable jacket slightly inside the connector.

Klein makes a crimp/flush cut installer tool. Used it on and off to terminate a few runs. Don't know how it stacks up to others, but from my use it worked just fine.