I admit to being somewhat Miffdalated. Also some confused/baffled. What would one want with one of these Doo-Hickies in other than commercial applications for making Guided Mussel wiring harnesses???
I use to have a Hydraulic press for assembling mechanical things and crushing fingers. Mine, however never approached FIVE GRAND?? WHAT COULD POSSIBLY make it worth 5K???
A weak and quavering mind is inquisitive
Ah My Dear Coffin!
let us take a trip in the WayBack machine to days of yore long before anything like ebay, during the times of Squarish Tube TV's and computer were big monster roomsize things and Apples and Commodores were just starting up and the USA actually had a space program.....
back then, cables were MAGIC and the ability to assemble one of these was worth GOLD
The Big Guy in the biz was AMP, and they made PRECISION presses! back then they were built to spec one at a time, the the Big Boys
who were building cables for Telco, Computers, and Aerospace marked it down to "cost of doing business"
Later, when Osbornes and AltaIr's and IBM PC's took off, ribbon cables came of age, and connector & caBLE manufacture got dirt simple:
Then, except for strange exotic esoteric applications these AMP presses became... surplus.
thus the huge difference between "list" ( btw with a 6 week lead time) and "used" or "ebay" prices.
These things are like the 12x36 Atlas lathes that "nobody" wants anymore....
yhs
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