MAINFrame Customs Ratchet Crimper
This is our own custom ratchet crimper well known throughout the sleeving community as the best crimper, especially for the price!
What makes our ratchet crimper better than the others?
Our new version uses two different teeth so that it can crimp 18-22 and 24-30AWG wire! This allows greater flexibility with the way you want your cables to be made. The front teeth are also milled to crimp Fan and DuPont terminals.
Many crimpers that are termed to crimp the typical Male, and Female ATX terminals crush, or fold the ATX wings resulting in bad crimps that pull out or even break. We have spent hours fine tuning our crimper so that does not happen. Achieve perfect heart shaped crimps that bite into the insulation resulting in strong crimps that last.
This tool is made for longevity, and should last a long time!
Don’t settle for more expensive crimpers when you don’t need to.
Still skeptical?
Simply read the many reviews by other sleevers just like you.
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This tool is supposed to come pre-milled but mine didn’t get fully milled on the small crimp end resulting in pinched pins that broke off.. I thankfully have a machine shop with a vertical mill to correct this issue. After this was fixed all the crimps were sexy and clean!
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Fu3lC3ll (verified owner) –
Bought the LC Ratchet Crimper, Molex Extractor, and ATX Terminal Molex. This was to shorten the cables on a SilverStone cable set, specifically, the ATX, PCIE, and SATA cables.
Extracting the terminals was pretty easy using the Molex Extractor. A bit of practice, a little technique, and they were easy to pull out(…most of them. There is always that stubborn one!). I used straight jaw wiring hemostats to pull the terminal out. The metal on the extractor is thin, so you can’t get rough with it, and you don’t have to if you use it correctly! This tool worked fine for the 48 terminals I removed and I was happy to have it!
I was happy with the quality of the LC Ratchet Crimper. It felt solid. After watching the videos and a bit of practice I could crimp a decent looking terminal. HOWEVER, even though the crimp looked nice, on the 18GA SilverStone wire, the crimp would not lock the wire in. With a slight or medium pull, the wire would slip out of the crimp. This was not going to work. So what I ended up doing is crimping all of the wires and then finishing them off with solder.
The variable I believe is the custom milling. The milling, since it is done by hand, will vary from tool to tool. For my crimper, the 18-22 slot would not crimp the SilverStone 18GA wire sufficiently. I did try rotating up one notch, but it didn’t seem to make a difference. I did not try the 24-30 slot, although visually the milling looks incorrect and I believe it would not make an acceptable crimp. Perhaps I just got one with a bad mill. 🙁
Fu3lC3ll –