Hand Crimping Tools: What Are They and What Advantages They Bring When Compared to Other Connection Methods?

Whenever there is the need to join two or more metal objects, soldering or welding are the only methods that come to our mind. Whether it is joining metal wires, metal plates, metal beams or metal rods, soldering and welding are the two common connection methods. However, these two are destructive means of joining, which means they waste a small portion of metal on the joining area. This is not a problem for bigger joints, but pose a serious risk for tiny joints such as metal wires. This is where the wire crimping tool comes in; they can effortlessly connect and join two or more metal wires.

A crimper tool makes use of raw force to clamp two or more metal wires together tightly. They serve two purposes; to either join metal wires or cut them cleanly. Crimper tools come in many variants such as hand crimping tools, hydraulic crimper tools, closed barrel crimping tools, and open barrel wire crimping tools. They are also classified on the basis of the shape they form when cutting wire, such as C crimp, D crimp, F crimp, O crimp, W crimp, Hexagonal crimp, Square crimp, Trapezoidal crimp, Mandrel crimp and many more. Handheld crimping tools are usually operated by individuals for small volume works, whereas hydraulic and automated crimps are used for mass production and industrial use.

There are many ways in which once can determine the quality of crimp:

• The joint is perfectly done with all the edges of the joint properly sealed.
• The joining point of the connection is not wildly deformed.
• There is no damage of any kind done to the wires that were joined.
• There is practically no available space anywhere inside the connecting joint where the crimp was applied.
• There is no scarring or scratching on wire surfaces.

Wire crimps possess many benefits over welding and soldering, such as:

• They provide the same level of airtight joints that welding and soldering provide but without the usage of heat or destructive joining elements. Because the joints are made over a small area using thin metal wires, the joints are done perfectly most of the time with no gaps or openings.
• Wire crimp tools don’t make use of heat; they simply make use of raw force to seal a joint.This means no heat or electricity involved, unlike welding and soldering where heat and electricity as the power source are involved. To use a hand crimping tool, one does not need to be anywhere near power or electrical source, making them highly portable and convenient for small wire joining and connection tasks.
• There is no destruction of metal involved in wire crimping; metal is simply pressurized and clamped over one another. Welding involves melting the area around joints to create a hot connection, and soldering uses an alloy melt to seal joints, both of which can be destructive to small wires and cables that don’t have much metal surface area, to begin with. Wire clamps resolve these issues by doing away with destructive joining and only use existing metal wrapping to join or cut connections.

Different types of jobs require different types of wire crimps, so getting the right one is essential for the perfect crimp joining.