today we're looking at a new ferrule crimp tool
okay then so you've got a new crimping tool in the box in front of us let's not delay any longer get
that box open let's see what's inside okay so this is the Crimp Fox 4 in 1 from Phoenix Contact
okay so the crimp fox wow wow that looks lovely it's just just changed to there that looks lovely
we love the boxes anyhow there's lots of things i'm not used to seeing in a box that contains
ferals and a crimping tool explain what's in there for us normally when we mention fox Gary
you're thinking Foxy Bingo when it's interrupting you're watching Homes under the hammer but no this
is a four in one cut strip and ferrule crimper okay so go through some of the bits for us then
okay so the first bit that's slightly different is you'll notice the ferrules themselves come in this
sort of strip so that wouldn't look out of place on rambo's belt okay um so we've got some of those
obviously the various sizes this goes from 0.5 all the way up to 2.5 okay so this is more of
a crimp for maybe someone doing panel wiring lots of crimps at one time yeah lots of crimps similar
size um and we'll look at that a little bit more so here's our tool itself the four in one tool
so here's the bit the clever bit is this magazine so i'll just remove that oh yeah i
like that a lot so you're telling me in a minute you're going to load that up with ferrules on it
just take our strip wind it around the magazine oh there's something quite satisfying about
that so okay so we loaded our crimps into our magazine and then we're in a good car
yes and i see you've got two spare magazines as you could have several different sizes or the same
size three times yes so i've loaded up the 1.5 there if i wanted to change it just drop that out
okay and then swap over to this one
oh wow yeah really easy you said four in one what do you mean by four in one okay four in one well
let's uh we'll go over the 1.5 because that's the cable i've got already on the bench we'll collect
that in there yeah so we've got four tools okay so let's have a closer look at it says there's
four tools built inside the one crimping tool which is going to make electrician's life easier
and we know how we love that at efixx hold on let me just get rid of this box first guys so this
is something can you do without l boxes all these quality german tools seem to come in one of these
L-Boxx's these days and we're building up quite a supply of them right so the first tool number one
here's a conventional all right cutter is that labeled number one as well yeah it is level number
one oh right so yeah follow the numbers even gary could do it it's like that painting set you've got
hey there's nothing wrong with that so number two listen to number two cable stripper so
again be quite familiar to everybody and then pulled it all off yeah it doesn't pull it all
off so this is the next the really clever bit so that little slug at the end drops in there
and you'll see that I twisted it slightly more cheeky twist there yeah okay now you pull it
off right and now what you're gonna do i'm gonna just slot that into our crimp in the air and the
ferrule in there so push that into there and it's going to just cramp it up in it and then you just
toggle it across there and then i've crimped it and that's the crimp job done wow
that's just let's just do that again wow so let's repeat the operation so snap okay so stretch twist
the bit i really like twist yeah remove the slug and then you're just going to push that into place
i'm shaking away again always do on camera okay i'm not helping you i'm checking as well
and then crimp that up yeah and you've done that slowly for the camera for our benefit yes
yeah so that's it yeah great that fantastic okay so four in one four in one four in one cut
strip not fully stripped twist and crimp yeah crimp that ferrule up that is amazingly easy but
so downside obviously just let's get a downside in for you what size you say it went up to
it's up to 2.5 and obviously only does those single doesn't know the double barreled crimps
sometimes come across but i would suggest anyone who's building a sizeable panel yeah this is
you're not ideal all them control circuits they're all sitting there and you're crimping feral feral
ferrofluid off you go so whereas we know this one the one that i love the one from weha goes
up to 16 mil this might be somebody who's crimping several ends moving off and moving into another
one coming back we're kind of yeah we're we're occasional crimpers but we've got some panel work
coming off and we thought yeah let's see what else is on the market but i guess gary you know
the only way to prove this is possibly to have a little a little race perhaps no so perhaps we just
say who's first to make off ten ends five cables i'll have that back thank you very much okay so
yes busy there stealing your uh crimp fox so 10 ends 10 minutes on a so we make him 16mm
yeah no okay so he tried to have me there you tried to have me uh we'll just yeah let's have
that racing so let's get ready to feral and here comes the race so i'll count us in that's a cup
of tea cup of tea and a biscuit yes my cup of tea here my biscuit over there are you putting
your sugar in it have you no it's not sugar yeah okay that's my two then okay so five four
three two and when i get to one you can start okay yeah we're off and running you were cheating there
yeah no no no no no no no cheating's quite flexing the rules i would suggest you are with that one
okay twist like you did last summer i'll bet you remember when that was actually released
and i'm not talking about the jive bunny version either okay did you ever see the beatles live
uh yeah all the time gary yeah yeah down the local bingo hall i'd imagine yes some uh discotheque
okay where you spent your youth he likes to really like stuff quite so
gary's not very good with numbers he may have noticed that you may have noticed how good i
am my numbers if you watch my uh and uh um i mean you did a makita fan review didn't we
and i think that on the screen your age kept popping up and uh i'll tell you i'd underestimated
i'm on the second one as well yeah i'm doing all right yeah i can't see a lot i might have to
put your glasses on it's just again it's aging you're right
closer to it so that one's on okay so i'm nearly done whoops uh cramped up a bit early there
not sure yeah reminds me to take the dog for a walk
yeah that's it so we go so approximate length i don't think my links are going
to be caught right i think it's more about that the ten ends there's no no
i'm not sure i'm anywhere near this is the wrong length yeah i've got some i'm nearly
done sorry in here we don't think i'll be having that beverage before we know it
okay twist we did last but you loved that when that came out didn't you he's trying to pop me
off what a wonderful era to be out in front right beach boys well anything like that it's brilliant
yeah misfired yes won't be the first time might be the last time
i'm really done all right i am done how many got left oh still struggling away there you go
it tastes all the better known that gary made it for himself yeah
so let's just do that a little bit hot actually i might need to cool it down
while it's cooling down and you'll finish that i'll have this chocolate-covered caramel wafer
delicious one to go you may have noticed i've got some red ferals gary's got some yellow ferals and
that's because slightly different standard don't talk to your mouth full yeah be polite you know
i think you've got the time to finish it off we've got anyone out there speak caramel wafer
in standard four six two two eight while again he's on the Weidmuller systems and he's got
slightly different coloured ferrules for the same size cable if you don't know about the feral
colors download this chart in the link below and check out that video we made on it are
you still messing around for those who didn't understand that the link in the description
for the ferrule sheet for those who don't speak caramel wafer okay for the rest of the week
okay so yeah we've done that i would suggest gordon however the i'm not suggesting
occasional crimper but these are these are good crimping tools
there's one there there's five was this one you made earlier i'm not sure
okay so fantastic crimping set here um from Wiha we absolutely love it however that's probably for
somebody making a number of ferrule connections and then maybe moving on to another task I think
if you're sitting in a panel gordon this this is a great bit of kit i mean yeah for that lots
of the same type of termination to do obviously the slight disadvantage is yes you've changed
cable size you have to change the magazine over but we're not we're not going to be changing it
over every other ferrule end we're talking about sitting in a panel maybe doing a hundred one
fives or 1.75 crimp crimp connect connect connect that's going to be the absolute winning tool
so what was i do i win now or did you win that one uh i think uh i won that one guy
because i've got the biscuit and the cup of tea oh delicious we'll put that down as a draw i think in
in the uh win-loss column for me put you in your draw we'll see you on the next race