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Part One—Which Crimp is the Best Crimp for Power Cords: the “Hexagon” or the “B”?
Posted on 3/31/26 5:47 AM
After World War II, America saw the rise of multiple industries including electronics, which grew 400% in a ten-year span (1945–1955). Appliances such as hard-wired and transistor radios, televisions, refrigerators, and washers were driving demand, and electronics in automobiles and campers. The race to modernize carmaker assembly lines was on as well. The shift from soldering to crimping (including the specific B-crimp style) for electrical terminations in the 1950s was driven primarily by the need for high-reliability applications such as military and aerospace wiring—and soldering was becoming less of an option heading into the jet age.
Topics: product design, power cord, conductor crimping, crimps
Crimping Your Conductors Without Cramping Your Quality
Posted on 12/14/21 9:48 AM
Topics: product design, designing for export, power cord, conductor crimping, crimps