Crimping Tool

[Ohio AV8TOR]

What do you guys use for crimping your pull pull rigging? I have used a vise grip and a side cutter that I filed a flat on to not cut through. I am going to re-rig a plane and was wondering if it worth it to buy one of the ratchet crimps.

 

[jaybird]

A dull pair of wire cutters.

 

[Tankd]

Wire cutters.

 

[Alky6]

These. Work great. Have crimpers on them.

 

[ericb]

I use an electrical crimping tool to start. It makes a nice "U" shape and the squeeze the sides of the "U" together with a pliers. Works great. Something like this one. I use the "non insul" crimps.

 

[Bunky.F.Knuckle]

Ive used a vise as well as Sta-kons. I run the wire thru the ferrule as many times as I can.

 

[Ohio AV8TOR]

Anyone use the fishing leader style crimps? They don't have the double pass through like we do but the crimps seem better made for crimping the wire

 

[BarracudaHockey]

Ground the edge off of old wire cutters.

Then Azar sent me some of the Secraft couplers for a review I was doing, no more crimping for me, I have bought them for every pull pull setup since.

http://store.aztechaeromodels.com/index.php?route=product/product&filter_name=coupler&product_id=302 on the rudder end and these on the servo end
http://store.aztechaeromodels.com/i.../product&filter_name=tensioner&product_id=358

 

[jaybird]

Anyone use the fishing leader style crimps? They don't have the double pass through like we do but the crimps seem better made for crimping the wire

Yes that's all I use. I bought a spool of 80 pound coated Berkeley wire and the crimps that match.

 

[ericb]

Ground the edge off of old wire cutters.

Then Azar sent me some of the Secraft couplers for a review I was doing, no more crimping for me, I have bought them for every pull pull setup since.

http://store.aztechaeromodels.com/index.php?route=product/product&filter_name=coupler&product_id=302 on the rudder end and these on the servo end
http://store.aztechaeromodels.com/i.../product&filter_name=tensioner&product_id=358

Those are all I will use if I do a pull-pull anymore.