Crimping angled faston terminals - how?

[BabaYaga]

I just bought a new LED steaming light, that came with a pair of angled crimp terminals similar to this

http://uk.farnell.com/te-connectivity-amp/2-520129-2/crimp-terminal-female-6-3x0-8mm/dp/488380

for the power connection wire.

I don't have my crimping tool to hand, but I cannot figure out how I could use it for this task. Certainly they will not fit the slot used for normal, straight crimp terminals.
Anyone familiar with crimping this type of terminal?

 

[pvb]

Use ordinary crimp terminals instead. (Or you can buy special crimping tools...)

 

[nigelmercier]

Flag terminals require a special tool.

 

[Lon nan Gruagach]

Slap em in a vice.

 

[ghostlymoron]

There is a tool on a link from your link which I assume is the proper jobbie. Unfortunately it costs £294!!!!!!!! Can you just use straight ones?

 

[BabaYaga]

Can you just use straight ones?

Not sure there is enough room...

but then some further googling threw up this:

https://www.elfa.se/sv/flatstiftshylsa-roed-mm-vinklad-te-connectivity-156667/p/14820717

which I think will fit in my crimping tool.

 

[pvb]

Not sure there is enough room...

Use ordinary straight ones, as I suggested, and bend them to fit. After all, this is a practical boat owner's forum!

 

[lw395]

You can buy uninsulated ones, solder them on and wrap with self amalgamating tape.
Or
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12-6-3mm-...19d624b&pid=100005&rk=1&rkt=6&sd=361546575293

 

[BabaYaga]

Use ordinary straight ones, as I suggested, and bend them to fit. After all, this is a practical boat owner's forum!

Certainly an option, still...
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bodge

 

[pvb]

Certainly an option, still...
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bodge

It's not a bodge! You have an LED light, there's minimal current, what's the problem? If you've nothing better to do, by all means search out unusual angled terminals, but they won't work any better than just bending straight ones!

 

[Yellow Ballad]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Insulated-Terminal-Ratchet-Crimping-Connector/dp/B00DHG2NRM

 

[BabaYaga]

It's not a bodge! You have an LED light, there's minimal current, what's the problem? If you've nothing better to do, by all means search out unusual angled terminals, but they won't work any better than just bending straight ones!

Bending once is no problem, however this light will be taken off and put back on the mast every season. So the bending will be repeated to some extent over the years to come.
Alternatively, I will put a connector of some kind in the cable just below the light – we will see.

Thanks to everyone for your input!

 

[<152587>]

Known to professionals as flag terminals. Search uninsulated flag terminal crimp tool, plenty available at reasonable price. Ratchet type a few more dollars make better security.

 

[rotrax]

I still have the remnants of a pro Ripaults terminal kit from the 70's-used it for exactly your problem yesterday, flag Lucar females in a limited space.

The crimping tool supplied all those years ago is superb, making a heart shaped top depression to join the internal wire in a standard terminal first and then by moving it along rolls two shaped portions around the insulation for security. If an insulated cover is required these must be slid down the cable first and bought up after. No longer available and too time consuming these days, of course.

When used on a flag terminal the very tip is used, but the action of the tool always twists the terminal so it is not completely flat. Luckily, installing it on the male spade straightens it up.

I have often been without the crimp tool for the Ripaults terminals and have always managed to get by with long nose pliers and a little manual dexterity.

I am sure the bending of a standard terminal will be satisfactory. Good Luck!

 

[Yngmar]

This chap uses rather a lot of words to show how it's done with the special crimping pliers. Some of the words he used include "got it for $18.50 off of eBay".