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Old timer told me my D-sub crimps were trash

I had a guy at the hangar look over my D-sub pins on a harness I built and he just shook his head. He said I was using the wrong die for the pins and showed me how to check the crimp height with a gauge. Turns out I was crushing the barrel too much on half of them, risking intermittent connections. Has anyone else had to unlearn bad crimping habits from just winging it?
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wright.drew
Did you check your crimp height with a tool or just guess?
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kai_west
kai_west11d ago
What brand of calipers did you use to measure that?
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