I borrowed a friend's HF crimper and loved it. Bought one on eBay for $47.50 + $9.95 shipping. Either I was blissfully ignorant or did it wrong but I've made a dozen or so 00 crimps with the dies provided and I am happy with the results. Now. I see little use for the awg 12 dies as the ratcheting, hand crimper is just as good and quicker. So. How bout modifying this to 0000? Think the dies could be placed nose to nose in a shop vice and drilled out in a drill press or done on a milling machine. What would be a good diameter bore to insure the correct crimp? Use as a swaging tool? Regards. Larry M/V Cigano, Prairie 47 Currently lying: Bay St. Louis, MS -------------------------------------------------- From: "Joseph Pica" <joseph.pica@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 10:47 AM To: "'ed'" <ekcine@gmail.com>; <trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com> Subject: Re: T&T: heavy duty crimpers > Ed, > Snip:"...Any recommendations on a lower cost solution that works? Harbor > Freight has a hydraulic crimp tool that does 2/0...." > > I bought the harbor freight one and it works well but to crimp the 2/0 I > had > to open up a die to fit using a grinder & metal file (the dies are not > that > hard). It looks handy to also be used to swage and it comes with enough > dies that are easy to modify for other purposes. Hard to beat for the > money > for even comes with a spare set of o rings to rebuild the hydraulic ram. > > Cheers, > > Joe > > Carolyn Ann GH N-37 > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers-and-trawlering > > To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options (get password, change > email address, etc) go to: > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/options/trawlers-and-trawlering > > Trawlers & Trawlering and T&T are trademarks of Water World > Productions. Unauthorized use is prohibited.