You can buy a nicropress tool on e-bay for about $50 if the ratchet crimper doens't work for you. Tim -----Original Message----- From: passagemaking-under-power-bounces@lists.samurai.com [mailto:passagemaking-under-power-bounces@lists.samurai.com]On Behalf Of passagemaking-under-power-request@lists.samurai.com Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 9:00 PM To: passagemaking-under-power@lists.samurai.com Subject: Passagemaking-Under-Power Digest, Vol 3, Issue 4 Send Passagemaking-Under-Power mailing list submissions to passagemaking-under-power@lists.samurai.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/passagemaking-under-power or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to passagemaking-under-power-request@lists.samurai.com You can reach the person managing the list at passagemaking-under-power-owner@lists.samurai.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Passagemaking-Under-Power digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Crimping large wires. (scottstrickland@comcast.net) 2. RE: Communications at sea, was RE: Crimping large wires. (Scott Bulger) 3. Re: Crimping large wires. (CFE Inc.) 4. Good source for understanding HF propagation (Hal Wyman) 5. Re: Crimping large wires. (Ron Rogers) 6. Re: Crimping large wires. (CFE Inc.) 7. Communications at sea (Bob Austin) 8. Crimping large wires. (Bob Austin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 13:05:12 +0000 From: scottstrickland@comcast.net Subject: [PUP] Crimping large wires. To: passagemaking-under-power@lists.samurai.com Message-ID: <020420051305.4893.4203730800087CBE0000131D22007354460B020E04050C079D9B9C9B 9B010C9C@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am changing the inverter bypass to allow rapid swap-out of the inverter. (The old bypass required turning off all A/C electricity on the boat to replace the inverter, the new one allows replacing the inverter with the bypass powering the rest of the boat). I am going to have to crimp three 6 AWG wires in place on the on our boat in Spain, where getting an electrician to do it is not easy. Does anyone have a better suggestion then using a c-clamp on the hammer crimping tool from West Marine? http://mastercatalog04.westmarine.com/0666.asp Heavy cable crimping tool. I do not want to buy the $500 crimper that professionals use.