RJ45 CRIMPER TOOLS by UniversalGadgets

We all love crimping, whether it be in dance form, pie toppings or RJ45 and RJ11 plug crimping. This handy tool is so cheap you won't believe it's any good but you'll be pleasantly surprised to find it's quite well built, will crimp RJ45 plugs, RJ11 4pin and RJ11 6 pin - so that's 3 individual crimpers built into one tool, plus the cable stripper blade (also known as the finger tip remover/ nail clipper for the clumsy amongst you)Next in the pack is the mysterious little yellow thingy - it's a cable cutter (insert cable, squeeze the lever down and rotate the cable to cut the outer shielding... it's also a punch tool to insert cables into phone sockets or network sockets.... would get you out of trouble but by a proper KRONE puncher for serious jobs.Finally, it was delivered super fast, next working day delivery.How any profit is made selling this tool for a couple of pounds is a mystery but I for one whole heartedly recommend this for your occasional networking needs.....EDIT: reading other reviews, it seems some people are cutting off the tips of their fingers due to the built in cutting tool, I haven't suffered this problem but I'd suggest you remove the cutter if you feel you might chop off your fingertips with this tool (unscrew the blade and voilà or wallah for those that insist on idiocy)Also I've found a few RJ45 plugs I had didn't crimp correctly as they were slightly different in design to my others, it seems some have a slightly different moulding and this tool (along with my other £30 RJ crimp tool) mashed up the crimp connectors - not sure why these plugs are made differerntly but they were and certainly not suitable so if you have problems carefully eye up the plug against the crimp mechanism and see if they align or not, as the case may be. This was a plug design problem rather than a crimp problem as far as I can tell.Still rate this 5 stars would rate 10 stars for the fingertip removal feature (very comedic for us that haven't had this happen yet)

I needed to make a 6P6C cable - tools for this are hard to get hold of in the UK, and most retail at 30 quid plus, or a lot more for a multi-function tool. I thought the price on this one must be wrong or that the tool would be useless, but for less than a price of a pint (round our way at least), it was worth a shot.How wrong could I be? Delivered on time (a couple of days), the tool is solidly build and easy to use - it will crimp 8, 6 and 4-way connectors - slot your connector in the appropriate hole, insert the wire (remove the outer sheath but usually no need to strip the small internal wires). Quick squeeze of the handle and we were done. I don't know how it would stand up to 'industrial' use, but for home/diy use it is better than a lot of more expensive kit I have bought down the years.I agree with other reviewers - the placement of the large cutter/stripper blade between the handles is an accident waiting to happen. I was careful, but I could see someone doing a lot of cables might slip up and slice the end off a finger in a moment of carelessness. Easy enought to unscrew the blade and keep it to one side in case you ever need it.Plastic punch down tool and mini-wire stripper was a bonus. Doubt it would last long, but perfectly adequate for the odd home telephone wiring job.

I am surprised at the quality of these crimpers for the tiny price paid. I have crimped some RJ11s and RJ45s with simple ease. My pair came with a wire clip to keep the crimps closed for the tool box. The wire cutter works as expected and also the sheeve removal. The additional push down tool and sheeve removal tool also works well but will probably be of a very short life but a nice added bonus.All in all well worth the few quid spent.*** Additional info ****I suspect that there are several manufacturers of this design of crimp tool with differing degrees of quality. Mine does not have a lable on it as mentioned above, only a printed I shaped logo and the name Talon on the packaging. I have found mine to be a excellent build quality for the price paid. I have had no failures with the crimping tool just my failures by not getting the wires in the right order, must remember to check more throughly.

This tool works perfectly for all the Ethernet cables I've crimped (I've not tried crimping anything other than Ethernet). The cable is held within the tool securely in position while you're crimping and I've not had any dud cables so it seems to work every time. The cable cutter on the crimper is very sharp and located near the handle so I have been a little nervous of getting a finger caught in there but that hasn't happened yet. There's also a really useful little jacket scoring tool which is similar to the cable cutter but fits cables neatly into it such that it only scores the jacket and doesn't go all the way through the cable. As for the little yellow tool supplied with it - I've found no use for that yet.

I'd have thought one crimp tool would be as good as another, but apparently not.These have worked for me on about 1 in 5 RJ45 connectors. Whether they work or not appears to vary not just with make of connector, but also from plug to plug within each "good" batch.You'd never guess anything was wrong by looking at the tool - the metal end that does the crimping appears well made - evenly spaced etc, but partway through the crimping action, somehow everything stops lining up, and you end up pressing down on some of the plastic "teeth" of the connector, rather than on the metal pins.In the end I got fed up with it and bought a draper tool instead, which has worked perfectly.I'd not recommend this one, I'm afraid.