Channellock 908 Wiring Tool

Nice quality tool what you would expect from channellock

Work great, feel great in your hand even after 12 hours in the heat.

These are easily my favorite crimper and cutters. Excellent quality. I have a pair for home and a pair for work. Won't buy anything else.

"Well they are channellocks". Do I really need to say anything else. I mean you just cant loose with channel lock. They have been around for a long time and they make great products. There are a bunch of different brand crimpers out there, Snapon, Klein, Irwin, Greenlee, and some unbranded crimpers, and I have probably tried them all. These channellock crimpers are my go to though. I always keep multiple pairs on hand. Out of all the crimpers on the market, I find that these are simply the best for the money. They last for quite a while, they do not have to be worked out before they loosen up, the grips are thin material which I prefer, because it allows for more finesse when stripping smaller wire and believe it or not they are as hard on the hands and wrists as the crimpers with thicker grips. Also one of my favorite things about these channellocks that most other brands do not incorporate is the part of the head that is used to pull insulation off of wires. If you are still using other brand crimpers. You are seriously missing out.

Great tool

These are good strippers for a good price.They strip well, cut well, loop well, and they do not flex and bend like lesser wire strippers I have used. Also the bolt cutter is great.I do have a few concerns with them however. I have never had any luck getting good crimps with the crimping section, I prefer the crimpers that have one round edge, and one pointed edge opposed to these. The other problem i have had is that the bolt that holds the pliers together kept coming loose when i would use the bolt shearing function, I remedied this with some red loctite and steaking the bolt with a center punch. Last problem is... These do not show the stranded wire gauges, and the engravings are only laser etched and not stamped on one side like others I have used.Overall for the price and ranges of wire gauges covered, and the fact that its made in the usa and is channellock brand, they arent a bad set of strippers, but they could definitely be better.

I used this crimping tool to crimp over 500 23AWG forked terminals to leads from the BMS'S on my LTO SCiB batteries. Everything I tried previously to get them to hold, short of soldering, didn't work. I was amazed that I could crimp the terminals without puncturing the plastic around the crimping area of the terminals. I got such a good cold crimp that I couldn't pull off the terminals. They are somewhat fatiguing on my hands and I had to take a break, after each 25 crimps, for a few minutes. My hands were quite sore for a few days after I finished the last terminal. I also used this tool for crimping connectors on my solar panels and was satisfied with the results. They were very stiff initially but, after some penetrating oil, loosened up fine. I have a full set of Channel locks in my tool box and have never had any problems with them. They are a very good American company and these are made in the USA. If you start your crimp in the first station of the tool as shown in picture and then move to second station, it won't penetrate the plastic.

Presumably like others, I started buying tools based purely on price—or more specifically, the less expensive, the better.But, as I got older, I gradually noticed that not all tools are equal, and sometimes, you got to "spend the extra nickel" to get the item that is going to both perform better and last longer.My previous wire stripper was a $5.00 device that I bought at least 10 years ago. As I used it maybe a few times a year, it was never a priority for replacement. But when I recently tried to use it, I noticed that it worked best when I used a larger gauge groove to start the process of stripping the wire before carefully removing the housing—otherwise, I'd end up with a wire that would lose some of its strands.So, I started researching wire strippers that were reasonably priced (as compared to the "pro" level models) and found this one. Using it has been like night and day when compared to my previous device; it truly cuts the wire like butter and does remove anything more than what needs to go.Also, my previous wire stripper used a spring, unlike the new one that works much more effortlessly.