Those $30 crimpers that left me with 50 bad connections

I bought a cheap pair of compression crimpers off Amazon for about $30 last month because I was trying to save a few bucks. They felt flimsy right out of the box but I figured they'd get the job done for a few simple residential drops. Well, I finished a whole apartment unit with them and the next day I got called back because half the connectors were loose or falling off. Spent an extra 4 hours redoing everything with my old brand name crimpers that cost triple the price. Lesson learned the hard way, has anyone else gotten burned by cheap tools like that?

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sam171mo ago

Those aren't compression crimpers, those are solderless connectors you're using wrong.

wyattrobinson1mo ago

@sam17 three bucks says you've fixed more hack jobs than i have.