Bootlace Crimpers - Hex vs Square

[JamieP]

I'm looking at a new pair of bootlace crimpers and they have both a hex and square model

Just curious if one is more useful than the other or not? I'm moving into a industrial electrical role

Both are 0.14mm-10mm

Specially Weidmuller PZ 10 Hex and PZ 10 SQ

[awb]

As one tool doesn’t suit all I found the Weidmuller PZ 4 covered over 70% of jobs, self regulating from 0.5 - 4mm2, a back up set PZ10 ( too slow as you need to get correct size ) back a back set, then sets for large flexible ferrules up to 35mm2 then another up to 70mm2.

[MikeNZ]

Hey Guys,
You really get what you pay for with this sort of thing.
I did controls wiring for years with just the ratchet scissor type, never again, once the jaws start to wear and don't give a perfect crimp anymore, in the bin they go.
We had issues with the wires merely falling out of bootlaces that weren't ever crimped correctly.
Swing forward a number of years, I like the 4 opposing jaws that fully enclose the crimp as it is made and I've never had an issue with these.

While talking about crimp tools, a mate of mine bought one of them cheap Hex-type crimpers from TradeMe, cost him $97 or something.
Try and get the dies to line up when you have a 50mm² lug on the end of a cable and it gives a sort of triangular/roundish crimp.
And you can pull the lug off afterwards.

What a piece of junk!

I've always sworn by Utilux crimpers for anything like lugs and sleeves.

[JamieP]

Cheers mate

I ended up getting and absolutely love my Weidmuller PZ6 ROTO LS

0.14-6mm singles and 0.14-4mm doubles

They use a trapezoid crimp