If you are interested in setting your line up to take advantage of the benefits of process control: Pull tests specifictations can be found in UL standards. But, crip height and crip pressure are more important for reliability of the crip termination. (Insulation in the crimp may not cause a pull test failure.) AMP had a lot of information and provided great support. I don't know what is happening there today. Call me off line if you need more help. I have not spoken with my good contacts on this subject in a couple of years. Guy Ramsey American Competitiveness Institute Senior Lab Technician / Instructor 610 362-1200 ext 107 -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Phil Nutting Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 1:25 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] Wire crimp pull tests To my esteemed colleagues, We had a customer visit today and the topic of "pull testing of crimped wire terminals" came up. We haven't been testing these formally. Do any of you get into crimping of discrete wires and then performing a pull test? What equipment is required to accomplish this task. And the all important one, to what standard should we work? Phil Nutting Manufacturing Engineer Kaiser Systems, Inc. High Voltage Power Supplies That Work(tm) 126 Sohier Road Beverly, MA 01915 ph: 978-922-9300 fx: 978-922-8374 www.kaisersystems.com [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send the following message: SET Technet NOMAIL Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send the following message: SET Technet NOMAIL Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------