Bootlace Ferrules

[mike os]

These

 

[Onoff]

To say mine have seen some use is an understatement...

£92.64 inc the dreaded is the current RS price.

 

[MCKDAVID]

Mostly, you're overthinking this..

why?, crimp on, press and release, how much thinking do you need for that.......

compared to what?

 

[bigegg]

Crimp colours:


I use one of the Chinese hsc8-6a crimpers with the four "teeth" - I also just bought one of the type with replaceable jaws to fit different types of crimp.

 

[minimutly]

why?, crimp on, press and release, how much thinking do you need for that.......

compared to what?

Very little thinking, but then I've used a simple pump pliers, end on. Gives a nice 6 or 7 pressure points. Once the terminal screw is down on the ferrule it's not going anywhere is it? Re an earlier post, the point of these is to prevent that screw cutting the multistrand conductor.

 

[Turbo]

Darn you lot anyway!

Thanks to this post I'll need to go & buy a crimper kit!

(I've been doing some auto wiring recently & there were a few occasions that bootlace ferrules would have made things easier & neater.)

 

[MCKDAVID]

Very little thinking, but then I've used a simple pump pliers, end on. Gives a nice 6 or 7 pressure points. Once the terminal screw is down on the ferrule it's not going anywhere is it? Re an earlier post, the point of these is to prevent that screw cutting the multistrand conductor.

aye, like a lot of other methods it would work, you can think about it even less and do nothing, just stick the crimp on and tighten it down, same result?? and if you're only doing a few now and then that's probably fine. I think that's the whole point, depending on what you're doing, would decide whether the right tooling is justified or not.

I do a fair bit regularly, agreed nowhere near the quantity a panel builder would, but day to day in the repair line, all connections that look ropey get fixed. I need reliability and no thinking required it's just done. Aye I could get the water pump pliers too, butI'll stick to the "over thinking it" version.... one less unknown when repairing stuff, just point and press..

 

[bigegg]

Quick question:
Does one "heat shrink" the plastic part of the ferrule onto the wire after fitting?

 

[mike os]

Not usually

 

[morssdn]

It’s just a stiff plastic so would just melt if you tried that.

 

[MCKDAVID]

to the best of my knowledge they're not "heatshinkable"....

 

[bigegg]

So the ones I've seen which are heat shrunk would presumably be "uninsulated" with a piece of separate heat shrink applied?

That would work.
PITA, but I prefer the aesthetics


Or... Is it different for the ring/fork type crimps?

 

[hotponyshoes]

So the ones I've seen which are heat shrunk would presumably be "uninsulated" with a piece of separate heat shrink applied?

That would work.
PITA, but I prefer the aesthetics


Or... Is it different for the ring/fork type crimps?

The regular ring/fork type crimps are available with heatshrink insulation. Never seen ferrules like that though.
You can also get butt splices that are heatshrink and have solder in. They are nice.

 

[bigegg]

The regular ring/fork type crimps are available with heatshrink insulation. Never seen ferrules like that though.
You can also get butt splices that are heatshrink and have solder in. They are nice.

I always thought of bootlace ferrules as just a variation of the other types of crimp-on ends.
I'm /beginning/ to get the idea that they're not - but it's slow going

I use a fair amount of the solder-on butt splices to join cables for trailer wiring - I like them, a LOT.
They're better than my usual method of:

fray wires, and twist together.
wrap with solder.
wrap with aluminium foil
heat with lighter
unwrap foil.
SWEAR.
cut out solder joint.
repeat, but remembering to put heatshrink on first.

 

[daleyd]

Bootlace ferrules are the plain round type, either with or without insulated ends - not the ones with different shaped shaped ends.

 

[bigegg]

Bootlace ferrules are the plain round type, either with or without insulated ends - not the ones with different shaped shaped ends.

Yes, I know - but I thought that they would all be available in range of sizes, and with the same sorts of plastic covering - both in colour and type of plastic.
Obviously not...

 

[daleyd]

Yes, I know - but I thought that they would all be available in range of sizes, and with the same sorts of plastic covering - both in colour and type of plastic.
Obviously not...

Sorry I don’t understand? They are indeed available in a range of sizes with different colours

 

[bigegg]

Sorry I don’t understand? They are indeed available in a range of sizes with different colours

I thought that the ring crimp-ons (for instance) would be available in the same cable sizes and colours as bootlace/
I thought bootlace would be available as heatshrinkable, like the other crimp-ons.

Basically, I thought all crimp-ons were available with the same options.
But obviously, bootlace ferrules are available with different options to the other types of crimp-ons.

 

[daleyd]

Ah yeah - the ring/fork types are normally colour coded red/blue/yellow for cable sizes - don’t really correspond with the bootlace colours, they suit a wider range of cables where the bootlace type have a much tighter tolerance on cable sizes.

 

[8ob]

Had a mad five minutes and organised all these crimps, bought some doubles and the dividers on the cheap singles assortments were leaking so I transferred them all to a better box.


Dividers fell out and leaked