RJ45 Professional Crimp Tool Pass Through Cat5 Cat5e Cat6 Heavy Duty Crimping Tool for RJ45/RJ12 Regular and End-Pass-Through Connectors

The tool makes all the difference: strips the sleeve very well, cuts the ends and crimps effectively, I have been making cables galore and I am pleased.

No instructions but I was able to find enough information on the RJ-45 plug package and the internet to make it work. The tool quality is good. It's not Klein, but it is certainly higher quality than I expected. Only downside is no instructions. I figured out that stripper closest to the pivot is for stripping CAT 5e cable - works perfect: clears the cover and doesn't touch the wires. A couple of straight cutters (in yellow) one cuts, I presume the other strips. Didn't try the stripper. The cutter was fine but I had a little better luck using the cutter on my wire strippers. The crimper worked great for the RJ-45 plugs I was using. Make sure you look up the wiring arrangement - My first set was upside down. The tool even spells out the wiring arrangement for T-568B and A... doesn't help if you flip it upside down, of course. This arrived earlier than expected. Overall very pleased. Do not hesitate to purchase this for making your own patch cords.

I got this tool in anticipation of a project where time would be tight. Using Pass Through connectors saves a lot of fiddling because you can easily see the wires are in the right position *after* you have inserted them into the plug and I didn't have any failures on the project. I didn't use this tool for stripping the cable; I have a separate trusty tool for that, so I can't comment on that functionality. I have taken my previous crimper out of my tool bag!

I'm an I.T. guy and this works much better than the one my company issued to me. It's very well made and reasonably priced. However, I would caution you to only crimp the plug once or you will mess up the connector.

Great price

Well built! Feels sturdy

This stopped crimping RJ45 connectors properly after only 5 connectors done. I work daily with ethernet cables and have a crimper from platinum tools that has made over 10.000 cables easy. This one failed after only 5 connectors. Complete trash. Do not waste your money and time using this tool.

Worked well. Easy to use