so today gordon we're going to be looking at  Knipex's multi-crimp tool this one i've got  

here and i believe it's going to replace  the legacy collection you've got over here  

okay so you're somehow suggesting this is the  swiss army knife of crimp tools well it certainly  

takes up less real estate in my toolbox than your  three legacy tools what you got in front of us  

okay well i've got my traditional insulated crimp  tool had for years rock solid copper tube terminal  

crimper hardly ever used there's more your world  and ferrule crimper which iIve had for years and is  

built like a tank okay so first of all let's have  a look at how i'm going to remove the mechanisms  

that are held within this section here so i've got  the ability to do the same crimps you have here in  

this section here okay so that's like a cassette  mechanism there and i would suggest gary is now  

going to make it look easy it wasn't earlier  because we hadn't read the instructions so go  

on and go okay it works so what we've got is this  bar here so there is a little bar in the handle  

itself and that needs to be put into the upright  position when either pulling out or returning  

the actual crimp mechanism so that's the first  thing to work it out that is an absolute top tip  

and we've also got a rotate round for the one  we're going to go i'm going to go for the red  

the blue and the yellow crimp that you've got  here so i'm going to rotate that round so the slot  

lines up with the pin here simply insert it like  so so we're going to insert that into there and  

i'll just pull back slightly on that oh look at  that i'm ready to go okay so that's super simple  

i just now need to remove that bar back down  that bar needs to come back again when i actually  

take the head and put it back in there otherwise  you'll be there all day trying to crimp that down  

experience suggest so okay so i'm now set up  and i'm ready to challenge you with your first  

legacy tool before we do that just show us how  you change it back into the cassette to another  

one so let's have the ferrule crimper next Gary okay  so we're gonna go again we're gonna reverse the  

process we're gonna move this bar up into the up  position like so so lock it into position there  

we're gonna come back i've got it lined up again  just simply put it into position like so and you  

should just be able to pull it straight back out  like magic fantastic i'm so pleased that worked  

as well okay so that's that and you want to now go  for a ferrule criminal feral crimper okay so you're  

going to take you on with the feral crimper so um  it's going to be this one here there so i'm going  

to rotate it around like before okay i've already  got my bar in position so i'm in a good place i'm  

going to position it in like so i'm just going  to pull that back slightly oh he's done it again  

yep waking up just let me have a moment there  yes okay that's a win so i'm now the ability  

to crimp up to six mil in ferrules what's your  uh this will only do four mil but let's let's  

should we bring the camera in and have a closer  look at how we do this we can i'm loving it so  

let's see if the Knipex multi-crimping tool can  replace your three legacy tools by first of all  

using this through crimp to join this 1.5  millimeter square cable together what'd you  

call those gordon well i'll call them butt  crimp i believe somehow American  

viewers might call them splice crimps i  think you can go first yeah so let's join  

these cables together so you can go on the 1-5  cable so I use my pressmaster tool I've had for a  

very long time well you've been on the planet  a very long time so that makes logical sense  

so squeeze that one up so the good thing about  this tool is you don't need to um you don't  

need to uh swap sides to bring the cable in and  bring it in from either side of the crimping die  

okay so you'll see that a slight difference on  my one so squeeze that one up then okay and we've  

used a through crimp through crimp and the good  thing about this tool is it actually stamps the  

size of the crimp into the into that itself so oh  yeah it says 1.5 i like that yeah you give that  

pull test okay yep that's nice and tight like that  yeah i like that a lot key ring if anyone wants  

it okay yeah so i'm now gonna obviously put the  right one from what you call the cassette into my  

uh nipex crimping tool so i'm gonna choose this  one here so just rotate round so the slot is in  

the right position to remove this one open it out  fully put the bar into position and close it down  

and then it's just a simple case of sliding it  into position back and i'm ready to go okay so  

notice the crimp dies are in a different size  to what probably used to they're not in size or  

the yellow pops in the middle that's caught a  few people out yeah so what we've got there is  

one to one five on the red four to six on yellow  and 2.5 on the blue but not necessarily in that  

logical sequence however it's important that you  look at the colors and for me i have to bring the  

cable in from the colored dot side because on this  side there are no colored dots and it's important  

i come in from the right side so i'm going to end  up rotating one where you didn't on your pressman  

yeah and we see that's different every tool is  almost different the ones we've looked at we've  

got an economy-based tool we've looked at in  another video watch out for that yeah so now  

we've got to make sure we've removed this bar open  out our ratchet and crimp and now obviously we're  

ready to to go obviously if we left the bar and  it'll be completely impossible it'll be a long  

time there so again making sure i've coming in  there's the dot so i'm going to position the  

cable in from the side of the dot make sure i'm  fully inserted like so so i'll get it in there  

and then I'm just going to crush that one up okay  so that's the first one rotate myself round into  

there like so and then we're going to do the same  again but now gordon i've got to remember that  

i've got the cable coming in from this side so  my dot needs to be on the same size as the cable  

okay so i'm not as you twist your cables before  we've written them in there that's a that's a  

controversial one so we'll throw that one out  there do you twist the cable before you put in  

the crimp or not okay so i've got my nice and  tight as well okay so i can pull those out okay  

i think what we'll end up doing is i think there's  a video improving how much weight a through crimp  

can actually withstand i think that's worth  checking that one out gordon don't you watch  

for that you had a bit of fun in the gym okay so  that's my three crib you've done a through crimp  

okay so you've now got to change tools in order to  do a ferrule next it's quite easy i'll just move  

my hand along the tail and pick up the crimp tool  so this is my weidmuller pz4 that is a rock solid  

built like a tank uh this will do from point five  to four millimeter cross-section conductors okay  

and we're going to be using um we're using  one five stranded yeah one five stranded  

so this is dead easy if you haven't seen our video  on ferals check them out that easy there we go  

so you had to find that in your toolbox  that to locate where you'd left it and  

all the rest of it i've just got to go back to  my original nippex tool you can change the head  

it's it's really really difficult so what i've  got to do now is i've got obviously just gently  

put the bar back into position like so and then  i'll just put it back in here and just push it  

into position and then just pull it back out  there we go so that one's out and then i just  

select the next one that i need so i'm gonna have  a look around here i'm gonna need this one here  

rotate round to the right position still got  my bar in place slide it into there pull back  

and i'm ready to go well so i notice obviously the  difference on yours you've got to select the slot  

yeah for the right size ferrule that you're using  i won't find it difficult because they're labelled  

0.25 all the way up to 6 mil and we're going to be  doing the one five so take my ferrule slide it onto  

there and then just simply remove the bar get the  ratcheting mechanism open so we know a ratchet in  

find the appropriate hole and it is just there and  i'm going to just crimp that one up into position  

like so okay okay it wasn't very difficult  and that won't come off either so there you  

go so i've got two tools in one here you've  had to fumble around in your toolbox to  

find your second tool and they're different  makes and some people get bothered by that  

i've got a small confession now to make just from  the point of view is that i bought the uh what you  

call the cassette with the three in i actually  thought i'd click the one with all five in  

my one's missing missing yeah you can't do  the what we're going to do now the copper tube  

but you can if you'd have got the correct cassette  so if i got the five-way one i would have been  

able to continue on so that was actually my fault  it's not there don't do it yeah and the good thing  

on the five-way one actually the other missing  slot in there would be a feral crimper that goes  

all the way up to 25 millimeter squared which is  quite rare in obviously in one two yeah and i'd  

argue that would yeah if i'd have got the right  one we i would be taking you a part of this step  

and the one we haven't featured is the um is  the uninsulated crimp which is these without the  

insulation on which i'd suggest quite rare that  an electrician would would come across those but  

yeah so perhaps Knipex take some advice ditch that  one and put the copper tube on in in the three set  

so gary doesn't make any more mistakes so i'll  just do what you can't do gary i'll get this  

copper tube one do it i just didn't get the right  set um this should be fun because i've seen you  

do this off camera and this takes a few years so  this is an economy-based um copper tube crimper  

uh if you if you've got any hints and tips on a  great tool that i could put in my toolbox that's  

of the quality of these or perhaps the Knipex  one will go there here we go this should be fun  

come on then come on come on oh you made that look  so difficult yeah okay well we know that's on it's  

not coming off and perhaps in another video you  can show us the Knipex ones yeah perhaps i can  

so apart from the fact that i apologize i ordered  the wrong one um i like the fact that i've got all  

of that in one set and i love the way it removes  the actual crimping tool and put it back in the  

cassette i really like that but i know you're  quite attached to your legacy well these have  

had them for a long time they're good friends  but let's let's let's let's let's have a look at  

a weigh-in to see what they're waiting would be  say we're going to check a cheap ryanair flight  

somewhere we need to take the tool bag okay let's  get the scales out and see how much you're gonna  

timber up to so you've got the scales out so  let's see how much your three legacy tools weigh  

the big win here we go i think that's just  short of 1.6 kilos gary okay that's fine so  

the argument now is going to be is that my three  here can't do the same as your three and i'd have  

to obviously put the other two in here but my  return argument is if i put the other two in  

there you'd have to put two more tools on so i  think we'll call that a draw yes and let's start  

okay we don't often talk about price directly  on the channel but i'd suggest the price of this  

is significantly less than three quality tools  in that obviously you can always buy a cheap tool  

in any variant then yeah that's different so this  is weighed in at just about half of that garage  

so yeah so there is a significant weight here yeah  like we said if you're doing international travel  

or you know you're lugging your tools around the  site you know the benefit of having less weight  

and i know what i really really like about it  is just that ability to to have that lovely in  

and out of the cassette when we're putting them in  and out in order that we can keep them showing off  

i mean i would say obviously if all you do  is feral work by feral crimper if all your  

work on the insulated crimpers by an insulated  crimp but if you work in maintenance repairing  

operations and you're faced with a  deluge of different types of crimps  

on a daily basis or you're an occasional  crimper and you don't know what you're going  

to be faced with then yeah that's a great option  and quality tool significantly priced better than  

multiple quality tools so as always  we love to hear your feedback on your  

crimping tool your preferred crimping  tool or your preferred set of crimpers  

please make sure you leave those comments below  and we'll try and get back to as many as we can