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[Music] hey guys welcome back to kids answers today we're going to take a look at how to crimp and safely insulate heavy gauge wire I'm using two OTT wire but this is suitable for any of the larger gauge wires that may need a heavier mechanical crimp step one you're going to go ahead and use one of your terminals to measure exactly how much of the insulation you're going to need to remove to get a good connection using your exacto knife gently cut through the outer layer of insulation only at this point you should be able to twist off the portion of insulation you just cut through if you look at the piece of insulation there are no pieces of wire we didn't cut too deep the wire is intact now we're gonna get out our hydraulic crimping tool I picked up one of these online for about $40 it exerts about 10 tons of pressure onto a hexagonal die to crush the terminal head and make a solid mec