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My old boss in Bakersfield swore by a $12 crimper and I laughed at him for two whole seasons
Back around 2019 I was running drops for a crew out in Bakersfield and this old timer named Ray kept telling me to ditch my fancy ratcheting crimper and just carry a cheap one. I blew him off for about 18 months because I thought he was just stuck in his ways. Then my good tool jammed on a 40 foot run in a hot attic in July and I had to finish the job with the spare he tossed in my bag. That little thing did 60 terminations without a single bad fit, and I ended up buying four more for the truck. Ray moved to Idaho and I never got to tell him he was right. Any of you still running the cheap crimpers on purpose, or did you all go ratcheting once and never look back?
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stone.lisa7d ago
Reading this I keep thinking about how often the cheap old tool outlasts the shiny new one, same way a hand written list beats an app for groceries. We get so sure the upgrade is progress that we forget the basic version already did the job fine.
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