LOOKING FOR CRIMPING TOOLS

[AaronRollens]

Jaec,

You may be interested in these crimp tools below. They are not associated with any particular terminals or connectors but if you take a little bit of care and if you are not doing a production run then they may just be a good option.

Adafruit 349

Engineer PA-21 Universal Crimping Tool (18-26 AWG)

Many contacts (terminals) for narrow pitch (1.6-2.5mm) JST, Molex, Amp, JAE, and Hirose (HRS) housings require specialty crimping tools. Take, for example, the JST part number SZE-002T-P0.3 where the manufacturer suggests the hand crimping tool YRS-1460 at a cost of over $1,000 USD. This production grade tool’s price tag often puts these great connectors out of reach for a prototyping engineer, hobbyist or maker. One solution to this issue is to look in the Jumper Wires, Pre-Crimped Leads famil…

Adafruit 350

Engineer PA-09 Universal Crimping Tool (20-32 AWG)

Many contacts (terminals) for narrow pitch (1.5-2.5mm) JST, Molex, Amp, JAE, and Hirose (HRS) housings require specialty crimping tools. Take, for example, the JST part number SSH-003T-P0.2-H where the manufacturer suggests the hand crimping tool YRS-859 at a cost of over $1,000 USD. This production grade tool’s price tag often puts these great connectors out of reach for a prototyping engineer, hobbyist or maker. One solution to this issue is to look in the Jumper Wires, Pre-Crimped Leads cate…

I do hope this helps!