Parallel Crimping Pliers

Great Tool

Really high quality tool. Using channel locks works, but takes a little more effort to make sure the pressure is even on both sides of the keystone jack. This just allows you to squeeze and be done.

Excellent tool...

Be cautious in using this tool to assemble devices. I did not get a field connection device into the jaws correctly and caught the edge of the outer clip piece on the back lip of the pliers deforming the retention area slightly, damaging its ability to hold together. Used needle nose pliers to correct and all was well. Otherwise, this tool works very well to assemble pieces together that by hand are difficult to impossible!

Awesome, as promised

I'm a home DIY'er. With the exception of a class I took once upon a time about cabling standards, everything I know I learned from the Internet and YouTube. Don slipped in an advertisement for these parallel crimping pliers on the video that walks through terminating their shielded, toolless keystone jacks (which are also awesome, btw). Don was right--there's no way I could have terminated a couple dozen of those using just my hands to close the housing around their Cat6a shielded cable and they cost enough that I wanted to minimize mistakes and rework while I was trying to figure out what I was doing. (This was also my first experience with shielded cable.) These made it super easy--I terminated a dozen cables and they all tested out on my first attempt. Totally worth it to me to avoid the frustration of troubleshooting and reworking these shielded (aka pricey) keystone jacks.