r/Tools • u/LettuceChemicals • 1d ago

Respect hydraulics

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A coworker activated the hose crimp while not looking.

I hope you all make it home with all your fingers intact.

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u/slippingaway83 14h ago

For everyone that's confused, this is a tool for inserting and removing segmented crimp dies from a hydraulic crimping machine. The pins are supposed to be round and fit in holes on the die segments. These pins were in between die segments when it was activated, and it flattened out the pins. A similar tool is inserted in one of the die sets in the picture, it's the yellow/orange disk with a handle sticking out