John
I'm curious as to why the PA-09 and not the PA-20 or PA-21, also from Amazon at about the same price. After reading this thread, and the one on the main forum, I poked around Amazon a bit and found these tools: PA-09 (1.0/1.4/1.6/1.9mm); PA-20 (1.6/1.9/2.0/2.3mm); and PA-21 (1.6/1.9/2.2/2.5mm). If we are mainly crimping Lionel 2.54mm, Legacy 1.5mm, and MTH 2.0mm connectors, as mentioned in your posts, wouldn't either of the larger crimpers be a better fit? Or is there a need for the smaller size (1.0mm) crimper? It would seem to me that the 1.6mm crimper should be OK for the 1.5mm fitting, and either of the bigger crimpers would be better for the larger 2.54mm Legacy fitting.
These Engineer brand tools from Japan are good quality and attractively priced. I posted a few months ago about an Engineer brand specialty pliers for grabbing screws with damaged or broken-off heads. It's the same tool as the one sold here as the Vampliers and the price, including airmail from Japan, is at least ten bucks less than the Vampliers. This also came from Amazon.
