I was con­tend­ing with the first exam­ple image below (left) this week. Why on earth does a crimp con­nec­tor need SIX SEPARATE PIECES??

Pin, con­nec­tor, sleeve. You don’t need two wash­ers (rub­ber, metal) and a part-conical metal ring to crimp some­thing in place. WES com­po­nents sent it to us and I’m so con­vinced they must have sent the wrong thing because I have absolutely no idea how any­thing is meant to crimp into place inside that thing. There isn’t even a sleeve to crimp. There’s a screw-on con­nec­tor that does absolutely NOTHING for cable ten­sion. Utterly use­less. And you can’t crimp the bar­rel because there’s a die-cast metal screw inside it, isn’t there. And even if you had enough strength/a big enough crimp tool to man­age that, all you’d suc­ceed in doing would be crush­ing things and the con­nec­tion would suck. I say this hav­ing tried on the part-cone which pro­ceeded to quite lit­er­ally shat­ter into frag­ments. Wow I love crimp tools, they exert so much force with­out appear­ing to, it’s hilarious!

But, whilst speak­ing of cables, Madi­son Tech­nolo­gies get a good rap. They’re cost effec­tive and ridicu­lously fast with their turn­arounds (regret­tably so fast they wouldn’t wait for a courier, insist­ing on send­ing their own — but it was less than quoted, so that’s not so bad). Uhh, they do cus­tom cables amongst other things. Good stuff. Ordered late Fri­day after­noon, the guy said he’d do it first thing Mon­day, and it was despatched by before lunchtime (which was when I called to give them our courier details, only to dis­cover some­one had already left!) Awe­some service.