<div dir="ltr">Agree completely on the pins and the practice. And of course the fun is you make 2 perfect crimps, admire your work, then screw up the 3rd one, #$@!%^ ... then cut off all three, including the 2 perfect crimps and throw them all away and start again.<div><br></div><div>Ed</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Jon Lowe via NSRCA-discussion <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" target="_blank">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Having done a lot of these, crimping your own wires is a PITA, even with a decent tool. Unless you do it regularly, you can expect to mess up more than a few crimps as you relearn how to do it each time. Practice is key, and buy a lot more pins than what you think you will need. The pins are small, easily bent, and hard to line up properly in the tool. I've used both a cheap tool, and a "high quality" tool with little difference in the results.<br>
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I've found no difference in the quality of pins and wire between what HobbyKing sells, and what MPI and Radical RC sell. Price is certainly right at HobbyKing.<br>
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On May 20, 2015 7:10 AM, Jim Woodward via NSRCA-discussion <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Thanks for the crimp links. Which is the highest quality source for the pins and wires?<br>
> Jim <br>
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> On May 19, 2015, at 11:35 PM, Ronald Van Putte via NSRCA-discussion <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> BP Hobbies sells one: <a href="http://www.bphobbies.com/view.asp?id=A0320106&pid=F2893843" target="_blank">http://www.bphobbies.com/view.asp?id=A0320106&pid=F2893843</a><br>
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> Ron<br>
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>> On May 19, 2015, at 7:28 PM, Jas via NSRCA-discussion <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I am wanting to make custom length leads for my S-BUS set-up in my Worlds planes but don't know which crimping tool to get. Anyone using one with success over the years, or even ones to stay away from? I know MPI makes one, don't know who else.<br>
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> Thanks,<br>
> Jason<br>
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