Blew $300 on a fancy crimper that was totally useless for my work

I bought this expensive Klein crimper off a FB marketplace ad thinking it'd save me time on coax connectors. Took me 3 hours to figure out it was for some weird military spec cable I never even see. The guy said it worked for standard RG6 but it kept crushing the connectors wrong and I ruined like 20 ends. Should've just stuck with my old generic one that cost $40 from Home Depot. Any of you guys ran into this where a tool just straight up lies about what it works with?

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umab867d ago

Yeah everything nowadays claims to be way more than it really is.

theagarcia7d ago

300 bucks is rough but honestly that FB marketplace gamble hits different when you're desperate for a deal. I had a similar thing with a "multimeter" that claimed to read capacitance but just showed random numbers on every cap I tested. Learned the hard way that if the listing has bad grammar or a stock photo from 2009, the tool is probably lying to you too.