I would say so people can see the difference and leave out the small. You did see a difference and a pretty substantial one in my image. Mine hammer crimp is also not a solid block of metal either. If you look you can see the wires but more tightly bound to help with vibration issues. With the crimped one when I removed them from the vehicle there were about 5 of them that just fell apart with no real tugging so the crimp was quite poor. Interesting that a hydraulic crimp is so crappy. Not to say all hydraulic crimps are crappy. Just showing a comparison between two different ways. I'll do a video and revisit this. I won't bother doing another hammer as you can already see what it does. I will however use my hydraulic crimper and cut it for you to compare. Give me a few days and I'll post when it's ready to view.
I think part of the problem, and no insult intended, is the crimper, the 'you' in this.
Meaning, I made some horrible crimps with my hydraulic crimper when I started - fell right off, super awful.
Then I disovered when I bought a better TE 5ton tool with double the number of dies, that it wasn't just 'use the 2/0' die and move on. Nope, there was a 2/0+, 2/0 and 2/0- for most of the important sizes.
I use the hell out of the 6awg, 8awg dies also. Those too, +'s and -'s helped me dial in perfect crimps. That and a good supplier of adhesive single wall or double wall heat shrink and I've got crazy strong lug / connections.
I look forward to seeing your section demo for crimped work.
- Patrick
