[sdiy] Quick ribbon cable question
Oren Leavitt
oleavitt at proton.me
Sun Jan 26 03:31:08 CET 2025
My buddy, Fred Flintstone does his IDCs with an old tortoise.
On 1/25/25 8:20 PM, Peter Pearson via Synth-diy wrote:
> Maybe you're right. Might as well just bite down on the connectors with
> your molars to crimp them. You grew your teeth for free.
>
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM Quincas Moreira <quincas at gmail.com
> <mailto:quincas at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> I’ve done many by placing them between two boards and stepping on them
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> Quincas Moreira
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> On Sat 25 Jan 2025 at 7:17 p.m. Peter Pearson via Synth-diy <synth-
> diy at synth-diy.org <mailto:synth-diy at synth-diy.org>> wrote:
>
> Sorry, not trying to be mean here, but I don't understand this
> attitude of like "Can't you just use a heavy can of tomatoes to
> crimp your cables?! I don't want to spend money on my nice
> synthesizer!" The good tool that does the job well is cheap!
> Here's what looks to be an unused hand crimper for $1 with no
> bids and cheap shipping on ebay:
>
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/306054243851 <https://www.ebay.com/
> itm/306054243851>
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> And I only spent like 20 seconds of time to find it. I'm sure
> there are loads more similar auctions up currently.
>
> It's the same with Molex crimp terminals. Just buy the tool
> that does the job well. It's so worth it. They aren't
> expensive and they make life better.
>
> I guess if you'd rather spend 20 hours of bench time to figure
> out that your crap attempt at making a cable is the reason that
> your thing doesn't work, that's you doing you. Have fun.
>
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM Shawn Rakestraw via Synth-diy
> <synth-diy at synth-diy.org <mailto:synth-diy at synth-diy.org>> wrote:
>
> I second the Channel Lock pliers method. I have a very small
> pair that I used masking tape over the "teeth" so that it
> won't mar the plastic. I'm usually making eurorack power
> cables, so the size of the connectors is relatively small.
>
> - Shawn
>
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM Terry Bowman via Synth-diy
> <synth-diy at synth-diy.org <mailto:synth-diy at synth-diy.org>>
> wrote:
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>
>> On Jan 25, 2025, at 4:25 PM, Oren Leavitt via Synth-
>> diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org <mailto:synth-diy at synth-
>> diy.org>> wrote:
>>
>> In the past, I've used an arbor press with the IDC
>> between two pieces of
>> 0.125/3mm thick aluminum or blocks of wood.
>
> Yeah, you can use a drill press as well. It has more
> "feel" than a bench vise which will make it more
> difficult to screw up.
>
>
>> Never hammer IDCs! I've
>> learnt that the hard way years ago. The key is evenly
>> distributed,
>> controlled pressure.
>
> Ditto. When everything is lined up right it only takes a
> second.
>
>
>> Nowadays, since I do so many of those ribbon IDCs, I
>> have one of these:
>> https://www.rapidonline.com/anvil-av-idcct-idc-
>> connector-crimping-tool-86-0527 <https://
>> www.rapidonline.com/anvil-av-idcct-idc-connector-
>> crimping-tool-86-0527>
>
> That's the one I have.
>
> And don't put the connector on the ribbon cable
> backwards/upside-down. I've done that multiple times but
> caught it before I fried anything.
>
>
> Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
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> Don Lancaster
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