Introduction of Crimp Tools:
Crimp tools are used to terminate useless wires. There are many advantages of using crimping tools over wire wrapping and soldering. Such as, if crimping tools is made very professionally without any faults and are made air tight, then oxygen and moisture do not reach the metal and do not corrode the metal. Since no alloys are used, the joints that are made are mechanically very strong. Only wire wrap can be used with small cross-sectional area wires, whereas for both large and small cross-sectional area wires, crimped connections are used.
Making:
As crimping is very useful, the steps involved in it are, firstly, the terminal is made to fit in the crimping tool and then the wire is made to go inside the terminal. Lastly, the crimping tool's handles are squeezed, reshaping and compressing the terminal till it is welded onto the wire. The connection that is obtained eventually may appear to be loose at the terminal edges but it is made so because these prevent the wires with outer strands from any cuts. If made properly, the crimp's middle is cold formed.
Types:
There are a wide variety of crimping tools which are designed for specific sizes and types of terminals. Some of them include Klein modular plug, Klein journeyman crimper. There are two main types or classes of crimped terminals which are barrel connectors and open barrel terminals, the former has a cylindrical opening for wire. Crimped tools are very beneficial.
Introduction of Electric Strapping Tools:
Strapping is also named as banding and bundling. It is the process of attaching a strap to a thing or an item to fasten, combine etc. Strapping tools (machinery) are also named as bundlers which are useful for bigger volume applications. The major applications of strapping include binding items together, reinforcing boxes or crates, attaching items and securing loads.
Orientation:
They are available in vertical and horizontal orientations. The most common one is the vertical orientation. They are also available in top seal, side seal and bottom seal orientation, which shows where the joint has been done and where it is in the bundle. They are even available in automatic and semi-automatic varieties. The former one can be used with conveyor systems.
Types and their Working:
Automatic strapping machine has the availability of hands free, which is very good in securing of items. In the semi-automatic strapping machine, there is one operator which handles the seal, cut and tension of polypropylene strapping on any box of any size. Fully automatic and semi-automatic strapping machine are both included in the packaging line production. These electric strapping tools improve the efficiency in a factory or warehouse plus they even manage to help you give a neat and secured packaged product which is really presentable. Since the straps are adjustable, if a box is comparatively softer than other boxes, then there is very less chance of it getting damaged. It is widely used in attaching items to skids, crates, pallets, flatbed and flatcars semi trailers etc.