Using an Open Barrel Crimp Tool

Hopefully this will help some of you with the use of your Crimp tools.
I tried to be as thourough as posible, Hope you can use this to your advantage.

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Standard Open Barrel Crimp Tool

First - Strip you wire to the proper length needed, This may be different for each type of terminal crimped.

This one approximately 5 to 6 mm will need to be striped.

Do not to nick any wire strands like I did in this second picture.

If you do cut the wiring down to the damaged standing, and re-strip the wire.

 Next - You will place the terminal in the Crimp tool die. In the photo on the left you are looking at the upper die, the left side of  the die in the photo is the wire/conductor crimp. Right side of the die will be the insulation crimp.

Place the terminal in the die, so the wings for the conductor crimp are off set slightly center into the gap between the dies surfaces.

This will give you a needed bell mouth.

So neither the tool die, or terminal cuts into the wire stranding.

And Finally - Making sure the wire stranding from your striped wire is straight, not spread out/apart, and not twisted. Insert your striped wire into the terminal, making sure all the strands make it into the terminal to be crimped.

(With some terminals, the wire will only go in so far before the insulation bottoms out in the terminal) otherwise if striped to the proper length, make sure you have about 1mm of wire sticking out the opposite side.

You can now crimp the terminal, and should have something like this on the left.

With a little practice you should not have a problem, Good luck!!