Re: wire crimping tool?

[Anonymous]

Here’s a tool, reccomended (and sold) by a purist/professional that owns many more expensive tools:
http://www.pbase.com/mainecruising/purc … crimp_tool

Here’s his essay on connectors/crimping:
http://www.pbase.com/mainecruising/wire_termination

This link:
http://www.sailnet.com/forums/687571-post3.html
Has some picturs of heat-shrink terminals that were "dimpled" and then shrunk..
They reccomend a similar (identical) tool:
http://www.sailorssolutions.com/index.a … Item=WP042

But it bugs me to drop $50 on a tool I’ll use once every few blue moons….

Here’s a promising one I found that has interchangeable dies, including ones that I might also use every few blue moons (coax and RJ connectors):
http://www.markertek.com/product/pal-13 … -terminals

But I’m not 100% certain this die (or any of the ones they make) are the right ones for the FTZ or 3M heat shrink terminals….