do these exist ? (ice question)

[Bahney]

at the moment i have like a screw clamp to connect my power cable/ground cable into my amp but the cables are thick and they never go in the whole way so i was after something like this :-

ok when you have stopped laughfing at my **** poor ms paint skills i will explain what the pic is i want to clamp my thick power cable with like a larger metal hoop leading into a smaller metal hoop which i can screw into my amp, firstly do these exist ? and more importantly what are they called and where can i get one from ?


thanks in advance

ps i have searched the web but it is hard when you don't know what something ic called

 

[Tom]

What, you mean a ring crimp?

What size is your wire?

 

[Daz155HGT]

Re: Re: do these exist ? (ice question)

I think what you have is the bottom part of the pic...and you want to change it to the top of the pic???

...also excuse the paint program...

Daz

 

[bahney]

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daz mate that is perfect, do they exist ? or something similar to that ?

 

[Tom]

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Its called a ring crimp or ring terminal. What size do you need? (wire size and bolt hole size)

 

[Bahney]

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my wire is quite thick i would say about 10mm diameter and the hole i want to make it into needs to be about 8mm diameter

 

[Tom]

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Thats quite thick! 4 guage?

 

[Bahney]

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yeah i think so, i threw away the power kit so to be honest i am not 100% sure but 4 gague sounds familiar

 

[Tom]

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The core is about 6mm diameter? (10mm overall with the insulation?)

 

[Bahney]

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yeah that sounds about right, obvioustly i cant measure exactly but i can take more detailed measurements tomorow morning, but i had a good look today and i am going by memory.

but yeah tom that sounds right

 

[Tom]

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Yup, 4 guage or 20mm^2.

Ideally you need a big old crimp tool for these but you can just about get away with pliers, a hammer and a vice.

What you need is farnell part 269-001 (www.farnell.co.uk) £3 for 10 BUT there is a minium order of £10. You could try local car electrical places.

I don't have any that size.

 

[Bahney]

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just been looking on a few websites, this looks like what i am after, says it does it in a 4 gague as well, but would somewhere like halfords stock something like this ? or would i be better off mail order ?

 

[Tom]

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Helf do them I think but might only be the ripspeed ones. Any good ice shop should too.

 

[Rab]

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You can get a "crimp lug" from any elec wholesaler
Just tell them the size of cable and the hole size you want they should have thousands of these on there shelves.

Rab.
"If at first you don't succeed lower your standards".

 

[Bahney]

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just measured my power cable and it is 7mm and that includes insulation

so what gague does this make it ? still 4 gague ?

 

[Tom]

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Yeah, 4. Its not small enough to be 8 guage.

 

[Bahney]

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nice1 cheers tom, i just called hellfords and they dont have any in stock till friday, any ideas where i can get one online ?