[simpits-tech] AMP D-Sub Crimp tool for sale

[Gene Buckle]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, alex wrote:

>>  Alex, is it for crimping ribbon style connectors?  Otherwise I can't
>>  picture how the thing would work. :)
>
> No, more like bell wire. I believe this tool was purchased by the 
> previous owner back in the heyday of running serial cables out to dumb 
> terminals. In an office with 100+ desks, making all those 9 pin serial 
> connectors would have taken forever with a soldering iron.
>
> I'll post some photos to my blog tonight. But basically the plugs have 2 
> rows of connectors. You slide the plug into the tool from the left until 
> the first lines up with the hole. Stick a 22 (18-24?) guage wire into 
> the hole in the tool, squeeze the trigger and the wire is pressed into 
> the plug and crimped on - the tool automatically advances the plug to 
> the next pin. Repeat. Once one side is done, pull the plug, turn it 
> around and reinsert to do the alternate row of pins.
>

Ahh, now I get it.  I haven't seen that style of DB connector in years. 
All the ones I use for the sim use individually crimped pins.  Either way 
it beats the hell out of soldering them up. :)

g.

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