Crimping Electrical Connections

I was crimping terminals wrong for a lot of years!

How I found out was at a supply house talking with an electrical connector distributor.

He was a very helpful person and I could tell he deals with this a lot.

I was taught that you place the slit of the terminal towards the male side of the die. 

The die is the part of your crimping tool the terminal inserts into to smash and shape the connection. 

As he explained and showed me, the slit goes to the female (or rounded side) of the die. 

Doing it his way allowed the terminal to better secure the wire. 

You can have bad crimps no matter what you do. It's important to verify your terminals. 

But to his credit I have had far less issues and failures since adopting his methods. 

This is not true for every style of crimp terminal. I am specifically speaking towards the typically terminals we will carry in our bag for daily service work. 

MTT

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