Automatic wire strippers!
 

A few months ago, a friend let me use his IRWIN
Self-Adjusting Wire Strippers. Sold! I figured they would be
well over $50 but they are less than $20. Should have bought
one when they were first available. Wish I had had one
decades ago. Would have saved so much time and tremendous
amount of hassle.

That is a preliminary opinion based on one use. But it was
6-12 extremely thin (maybe 24-30 AWG) stranded wires and it
did a great job, me having no experience and not even asking
for instruction. Thick wire should be a breeze.

I did not want to buy any more tools, would rather do
computer stuff now, but that is an exception. The thing is
not much more expensive than a lousy ordinary wire stripper.

Automatic wire strippers!
 

John Doe wrote:

A few months ago, a friend let me use his IRWIN
Self-Adjusting Wire Strippers. Sold! I figured they would be
well over $50 but they are less than $20. Should have bought
one when they were first available. Wish I had had one
decades ago. Would have saved so much time and tremendous
amount of hassle.

That is a preliminary opinion based on one use. But it was
6-12 extremely thin (maybe 24-30 AWG) stranded wires and it
did a great job, me having no experience and not even asking
for instruction. Thick wire should be a breeze.

I did not want to buy any more tools, would rather do
computer stuff now, but that is an exception. The thing is
not much more expensive than a lousy ordinary wire stripper.

Was it this item?
http://www.irwin.com/tools/pliers-ad...-wire-stripper
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...ire%20stripper

Automatic wire strippers!
 

On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 23:17:48 -0000 (UTC), John Doe
wrote:

Wish I had had one
decades ago. Would have saved so much time and tremendous
amount of hassle.

Regular wire strippers with 4 or 5 slots for gauges aren't much a
hassle. Besides oddball sizing which require a delicate touch, even
if with a razor to first prime the strip, where an auto-stripper also
might as easily fault. Think delicate earphone wires and other sorts
of machine-processed options, where ground may almost be a part of
the insulation or possibly sprayed on. I've a huge roll of old TELCO
junction box network wire (for routing commercial telephone arrays):
small but tight stuff, with very tough insulation over sturdy enough
copper thickness. Good stuff for scabbing into today's materials,
which and when go wrong for the sake of cost-cutting fabrications.

An set of X-ACTO blades, a heavy and light handle, regular wire
strippers, and three or four pin-point pick probes for working out
what's what under a third-hand magnifier. (Auto wire strippers are
verge industrialized, optional like tip-controlled soldering stations
when working on miniature PCB setups lit up under a x20 stereoscopic
microscope. Peaches and cream, I suppose, for that 40-watt 6L6 hifi
tube amplifier project -- though not really in the same league with
rough&ready scabbers.)

Automatic wire strippers!
 

VanguardLH wrote:

http://www.irwin.com/tools/pliers-ad...wrenches/self-
adjusting-wire-stripper

https://www.amazon.com/IRWIN-VISE-GR...ting-Stripper-
2078300/dp/B000OQ21CA/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1492117062&sr=8-3
&keywords=Self-Adjusting+Wire+Stripper

Tried it on some regular power cord wire. Wonderful. I so
wish I had this decades ago. Then again, it wasn't available
decades ago. Not that I do that much, but it would have been
so much nicer. Wire stripping has always been a hassle. I do
not like losing a strand or two of stranded wire. Apparently
this tool does not damage the wire.

Automatic wire strippers!
 

Flasherly wrote:

John Doe wrote:

Wish I had had one decades ago. Would have saved so much
time and tremendous amount of hassle.

Regular wire strippers with 4 or 5 slots for gauges aren't
much a hassle.

If that is what you think, good for you. Not me! It is not
just having the right size stripper, it is holding and
twisting the thing and then ending up losing a strand or two
of wire no matter how carefully I do it. Totally irritating.

Automatic wire strippers!
 

Sorry, forgot to unwrap...

https://www.amazon.com/IRWIN-VISE-GR...+Wire+Stripper

Automatic wire strippers!
 

Check out this one...

https://youtu.be/ZytYjq9X78A?t=204

I stripped some thinner wire than telephone wire the first
time I used it, multiple wires at a time just for fun. Seemed
to work fine. I am looking for a video that demonstrates the
use of the knob that apparently tightens it down for very
thin wire.

There have been lots of times when I needed to strip several
very thin stranded wires the same length, a major hassle.

I am sure it has some limitations, but completely outweighed
by what it can do.

Definitely would avoid the Chinese knockoffs, especially
considering how cheap it is anyway.





I wrote:

A few months ago, a friend let me use his IRWIN
Self-Adjusting Wire Strippers.

Automatic wire strippers!
 

John Doe wrote:

Sorry, forgot to unwrap...

https://www.amazon.com/IRWIN-VISE-GR...+Wire+Stripper

Great for at home where you can have gobs of tools available in several
toolboxes or at a workbench or cabinets. When travelling, I just have
what fits in the one toolbox in my car so just the essential tools are
in there. I use the wire cutter in a needle nose pliers to crimp (dent)
around the insulation and then use the cutter to grip (not cut) the
insulation to yank it off. The insulation breaks off at the crimp spot.
My father's company was into construction, HVAC, electrical, and I saw
this same technique by his electricians and where I learned it. Never
needed to use anything more although I do have a more fancy one at home
that I'll use when I'm there - unless it would take too long to hike
over to that toolbox hoping to dig into the right one.

Automatic wire strippers!
 

Make a video...

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John Doe always.look message.header wrote:

Sorry, forgot to unwrap...

https://www.amazon.com/IRWIN-VISE-GR...+Wire+Stripper

Great for at home where you can have gobs of tools available in several
toolboxes or at a workbench or cabinets. When travelling, I just have
what fits in the one toolbox in my car so just the essential tools are
in there. I use the wire cutter in a needle nose pliers to crimp (dent)
around the insulation and then use the cutter to grip (not cut) the
insulation to yank it off. The insulation breaks off at the crimp spot.
My father's company was into construction, HVAC, electrical, and I saw
this same technique by his electricians and where I learned it. Never
needed to use anything more although I do have a more fancy one at home
that I'll use when I'm there - unless it would take too long to hike
over to that toolbox hoping to dig into the right one.

Automatic wire strippers!
 

John Doe wrote:
VanguardLH wrote:

http://www.irwin.com/tools/pliers-ad...wrenches/self-
adjusting-wire-stripper

https://www.amazon.com/IRWIN-VISE-GR...ting-Stripper-
2078300/dp/B000OQ21CA/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1492117062&sr=8-3
&keywords=Self-Adjusting+Wire+Stripper

Tried it on some regular power cord wire. Wonderful. I so
wish I had this decades ago. Then again, it wasn't available
decades ago. Not that I do that much, but it would have been
so much nicer. Wire stripping has always been a hassle. I do
not like losing a strand or two of stranded wire. Apparently
this tool does not damage the wire.

Automatic wire strippers have existed for a long time.

We had a pair at work.

Only problem with them was:

1) Price. They charged "industrial" prices for them.
2) Probably didn't work quite as well as the one you got.

I played with ours at work, but felt no attraction to them.
They were a novelty item in the tool chest.

I did most of my work with this style.

http://www.officedepot.com/a/product...Stripper-Wire/

Everyone has probably seen this kind, and these suck.
It takes a good deal of practice to keep the wire
nicking to a minimum. I used these for some number of
years as a hobbyist, before I got my first T-5 style
stripper. The non-automated ones still take practice,
but the ones in the following picture make the practice
brutal. I expect a lot of people, this is all they had
on sale at the hardware store.

http://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/ma...9937p.html#srp

And there are all sorts of insulation types, each with
their own foibles. Not every wire stripping job is easy.

Paul