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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
To expand on the part I highlighted here... most vices in machine shops are wavy - where it grips your part, it's not a flat steel plate. That's a specific design so it can adequately grip a wide variety of items. Flat plates won't hold round stock very well, for example.
There are vices available (and we have some at work here) that are completely flat, and allow fine adjustment. Those are the type you want to use if you're assembling a cable! You need to provide a constant pressure along the entire length/width of the connector, and have fine enough control over how much its tightened to prevent you from snapping off the locking tabs on the sides.
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What I did, and will work in a snap for anyone without access to such vices, was find some scrap pieces of aluminum L and drop them on the grips so that the flat surface of the L was pressing the cable together, and not the patterned surface of the vice.