Panorama Hydraulic Crimping Tool For Stainless Steel Terminals and Turnbuckles - HC240

Nice feel and operation plus it has several dies for different size wires and terminal connections . From what I can tell its rated at 12 ton and it will distort the fitting if to much pressure is applied so just keep an eye and when the dies meet with no gaps its crimped . I also made and fastened it to a wood resting block to keep it from rolling plus easier two handed operation (pictured)

The accompanying dies are of a soft metal, and deformed quiqkly after a few crimps. I went ahead and ordered the quality dies from CableView-Railing, and they are a really tight fit in this crimper. Head is made of cast iron, and I assume it is the same tool passing under different brand names. With this tool, I had to file off excess paint and molted iron bits to seat the CableView dies into the toolhead. I only assume that CableView have verified that their dies goes without problems in their tools, and I reccommend purchasing this tool from them. When it finally works, with quality dies, it is great.

Bought this to swage these Stainless steel turn buckles  Panorama Swage Turnbuckle with Lag Screw for 1/8" Cable Stainless Steel T316 Marine Grade (Lot of 10) After about 50 crimps, the die was deformed and no longer held the cable after crimping. Had to flip the dies and drill a new hole just so I could get the job done, crimps do not look good because of this. (when doing a stainless steel railing, you want the crimps to look good).

Easy to use, works perfectly. Needed to crimp ends to cables. Save me a ton of money had I gone to a sail maker.

SIMPLY THE BEST !

Worked well for crimping used on 2 decks with around 120 fittings total. No issues.

Works great for crimping cable for deck railing

Used it 6 times with an hour and the head snapped off.