Telco Making Cable Tools

Example shown is the Ideal 30-696 "Ratchet Telemaster"

Why Ratcheting?

Must people, who have little or no training with crimping tools, often use to LITTLE pressure when crimping. The quality of the crimp suffers resulting in poor performance both electrically and mechanically. The ratchet mechanism prevent one from using to low of a crimping pressure by not releasing the tool until you have squeezed hard enough. Hence the tool prevents you from doing a bad crimp.

The tool also includes a striper with a depth gauge to strip the case off the telco cable just the right amount to expose the individual wires.

That said, you still must take care of inserting the wires into the modular connector properly and make sure the cable cover goes in half way too. The cable cover is part of the crimp action for its function is to allow for the creation of a mechanical "strain relief" and protect the electrical connection of the wires inside. (The modular connector itself has a built in "mechanical cover stop" so you cannot insert the cover to far.) Gripping the cover, typically as you insert and push the stripped end of the cable into the modular connector, the cover stretches a small bit and easily goes into the connector at the same time. Just check before you start the crimp that it has gone in. You will know when it did not happen when you remove the crimped connector. The connector will be lose on the cable if the cover was not part of the crimp. IF the happens, cut the connector off and try again. If your unsure what it should look like, go look at a professionally crimped telco cable. Hopefully one type of Telco cable should have been provided for with your DCC system.

Other Ratcheting Examples:Home Depot CE70806: (Shown on the left). "Commercial Electric" brand is from China. Found in the telephone and Ethernet cable section. This same tool is also sold under many names and colors such as: Intellinet 210966, TRENDnet TC-CT68, DEKcell (No P/N)

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