Very often we find ourselves working on a project wishing we had some fancy tool that would make life much easier. Unfortunately, those fancy tools usually cost a lot of money so you don’t buy them when you don’t actually need them, and when you do need them it is too late. Unfortunately, this means that when you actually need the tool and don’t have it you end up with a finished product that isn’t as nice as you’d like. Such is the case when putting crimped ends on large wires. We’re talking battery cables, stereo stuff, winches, etc.

I’d love to have a hydraulic crimper, but they aren’t cheap. But what if there were a hand crimper that did the job well? This one might. Watch as Car Audio Fabrication tests it out.

Video Description:

In custom car audio we need to crimp wire lugs onto large wires. 8 Gauge, 4 Gauge, and 0 Gauge are very common sizes. This usually requires an expensive hydraulic crimping tool in order to properly crimp the wire terminals. Does this new cable lug crimping tool perform well? How does it stack up against the hydraulic crimper for attaching battery terminal lugs? Let’s take a look!