How To Crimp Butt Connectors Tutorial

In this video I demonstrate how to crimp butt connectors onto wire. It's important you match the correct size butt connector to the wire you are using. You need to have a wire Crimping Tool which can be purchased for inexpensive online or in stores. I show you step by step how to crimp butt splice connectors in this tutorial. Thanks for watching!

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[losmoore]

I never knew how to crimp a wire. I'm 52 years old and u just taught me. Thank u. Great video.

[JeffreyBrantEyeMD]

Helpful video! A little trick I find helpful when using that type of wire stripper is to spin the tool around the wire a couple times before pulling on the wire. This helps to "score" just the insulation, making it easy for the insulation to break away cleaning without tearing off any of the strands of wire with it.

[kelseyjones]

Thank you!! My cat chewed through one of the cords to my prelit christmas trees but I figured I could splice it together with a tutorial and yours did the trick!

[jamesmoloney]

Wearing gloves and eye protection to demonstrate a crimp on a 12 volt wire? What do you wear to drive a car? Or cook dinner on the grill?

[WaschyNumber]

Nice, one proper Crimping video and without the wrong wire twisting. 👍🖖
becourse never twist wires for Crimping, it will breake some wires and the Crimping will not be solid.
Research it if you don't belive it.
So many professionals do this error with twisting the wires and the call them self professionals but don't research important facts.

[infined]

Thank you, very informative for when I wire my new head unit to my car.

[traviscrawford]

So first off. We'll read amd very descriptive. Thank you for that.
My uneducated question is when placing the leads from both sides to connect, is it necessary for them to overlap as long as they don't protrude through the other side? What is the minimum depth gauge, as in, do they only need to make contact with the conductor inside?
Thanks in advance!

[lakeliving]

When stripping the wire I always turn the tool a few times around the wires axis severing the insulation before stripping.

[Lizard_geek]

After about twenty minutes of swearing I watch a video to discover I needed a crimper... I was trying to just use needle nose pliers ( I have only worked with dolphin connectors on low voltage ).
Thanks for saving me some time man. Liked.

[brandons]

No matter how hard I squeeze they will not crimp. Cutting the thing in half though lol

[felipemendez]

Thanks for the video. Running 🏃‍♂️ to local hardware store

[vincentquintero]

I like how you executed the video, it was well detailed and you explained it very well.

[zzoinks]

Your video is great! It is veru helpful when videos for procedures gloss over the crimping process and their cameras are super far away.

[danschechter]

Clear and to the point -- well done, and thanks for posting this video!

[doowop]

quick, easy, consice, and more in-depth than toher videos. awesome

[WilliamPeck]

Great job - - - wire fixed, wife happy!

[apackwestbound]

That Irwin vise-grip crimping tool you demonstrated is designed to cut SOLID copper (as opposed to aluminum) wire only. The tool itself is labeled "cut copper only" and the word "solid" appears above the wire size numbers on both sides of the tool. The wire you were cutting was a STRANDED wire, not SOLID wire; the wire and tool are a mismatch. There is a difference in the diameter between a SOLID and STRANDED 18 AWG (American Wire Gauge) even though both are labeled 18 AWG. That is the reason you did not get a clean cut the first time that you demonstrated a wire cut, it is also the reason that the wire cutter "accidently" cut one (or more) of the wire strands, rendering your first cut unacceptable even though you had the wire in the "correctly" labeled hole size on the tool. I was actually surprised by this Irwin tool, as almost every other wire cutter I have seen is set up for both stranded AND solid wire, and is clearly labeled so.
-Respectfully.

[skyfire]

Thank you so much this video was really helpful ☺️

[Vater]

Can’t tell you how many I screwed up lol

[ron]

Good video. Can you comment on heat shrinking the connector?