Sopoby Ferrule Crimping Tool Kit AWG 28-8 Self-adjustable Ferrel Crimper Kit with 1200PCS Electrical Wire Terminals Crimp Connectors

Not a bad furrel kit, crimps still work have had them for a few years now

Great value for the money

I wanted a way to clean up my wires when installing car audio. I have only used this tool a handful of times but it did make nice crimps, and the selection of ferrules you get is pretty decent. It lives permanently in my electrical tool kit. I'm sure time will tell if the crimper holds up but so far it seems to be doing just fine.

Read other reviews about the actual product, they all say what's basically on my mind. I'm here to talk about the case that the pieces come in. Let me tell you, it's complete trash. I really like to keep things organized. Impossible with this case. I like to keep things in their original packaging and sort by color and size. Not happening with this box. I swear, if you breathe on it wrong - splash - all the pieces are on the floor scattered all over the place. Thirty minutes of sorting and cleaning up - splash - start again, bud. I hate that box. I hate it so much.

Very high quality crimper, really nice ferrules. Works wonders with my 18 gauge stranded wire (aka lamp wire) and lever wire connectors. See video for how they work together. Note: the 18 gauge wire in the video is SPT1 thickness insulation and fits comfortably into the red insulator of the 18 gauge ferrule. I suspect the SPT2 insulation might not fit inside the insulator, but do not have experience with that.'' Update: I found that the 16 gauge ferrules (black insulator) work best for the SPT2 insulation as the wire's insulation does fit inside the black insulator of the ferrule.

This is a must for so many DIY applications! These will keep your stranded wire ends cinched up into an easy to use ferrel that is easier to put into DIY board and other terminals. When making hobby power supplies, add a ferrel for each side so you don't accidentally short the wires you'd be plugging into their terminals. Crimp the ends of speaker cables so they are easier to put into their screw terminals. Terminate wires that go in control boxes. All sorts of things!

Years ago, in the 1970s while working as an electronics technician, we used to dip the ends of stripped, stranded, hook-up wire into a solder pot full of molten solder. This created a solid end that was easy to loop under screw terminals without the strands unraveling, or to slip into hooded screw terminals for a solid connection. It was much later that I and fellow technicians discovered wire ferrules that crimped onto the ends of stripped, stranded, hook-up wire to accomplish the same purpose without the bother of heating up a solder pot. Only problem was, these were at that time apparently aimed at the much larger commercial panel-builder market where hundreds if not thousands of wire ends needed to be terminated. The ferrules were not cheap, but the "star crimp" crimping tools were absolutely ridiculous in price. So, I finished my technician career and became a graduate electrical engineer (BEE, 1978, Univ. of Dayton) without ever using ferrules or acquiring a crimping tool for same. Flash forward to the 21st Century and Amazon, now importing a crimping tool and an assortment of color-coded ferrules and selling them for ridiculously low prices. That was a no-brainer for me. Sure, the crimper isn't a "star" crimper but it gets the job done. And I didn't need to buy ferrules in thousand-per-lot quantities. Highly recommended product for the serious electronics builder/hobbyest. The ferrules are too large to insert in solder-less breadboards, but work great in all manner of screw-terminal strips.

The crimper works exactly as expected, securely crimping the ferrules onto the stripped wire. The ferrules themselves are exactly as represented. This was a great buy, well worth the low cost in my opinion.