Blind bought a $210 pin crimper at a swap meet in Wichita and it saved my whole week

Quinn Davis · 2026-10-27T16:25:05.328475+00:00

So I'm at this little swap meet out by the airport in Wichita two weekends back, mostly looking for nothing, and this old boy has a crimper sitting on his table with no label and no box, just a tag that says $210 firm. I laughed at him at first because that's a lot for a tool with no name on it, but he swore it was a Daniels and let me squeeze it once. My hand knew before my brain did, the thing ratchets smooth and stops dead when it's done, no guessing. I bought it thinking I'd wasted two hundred bucks, then Monday I had to redo a whole rack of cannon plugs on a King Air and every single pin came out perfect on the first squeeze, which never happens for me. My old $40 crimper used to pull pins out of the barrel maybe one in ten, and that one bad pin is what eats your afternoon. Now I'm trying to figure out if I got lucky or if this thing is really that much better. Any of you run a high dollar crimper like this, or am I just talking myself into the purchase?

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