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If you are cheap or short of time, you can make your own from a short length of brake pipe! I did this for my bulkhead connector terminals. Cut a length, put it in a drill chuck, and then sand or file the outside diameter until the wall thickness is thin (that's a technical term - 'thin' ).

Quick and easy. If you have a bunch to do, I'd buy the tool....

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Along these lines of quick, expendable, and cheap….

I use the old metal tension-strips that come on wiper blades. Cut into short lengths and hit the edges on a grinding wheel. Thin it out (there's that technical term again…) so it fits into the terminal end your working on. I made a selection of about 1/2 dozen with a piece of bright yellow shrink wrap on the tips. If I don't see it and loose it, no big deal. Just make more from scrap. I make them long, short, I even bend the ends for leverage.

BUT….. these only work on flat terminals. The above tip covers round pins. I guess we covered it all, no?