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!
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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...
-- VanguardLH V nguard.LH wrote: Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.unit0.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: VanguardLH V nguard.LH Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Subject: Automatic wire strippers! Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 17:13:09 -0500 Organization: Usenet Elder Lines: 17 Sender: VanguardLH Message-ID: elabflF9s71U1 mid.individual.net References: ocmcis$1b8$1 dont-email.me el856hFr2bkU1 mid.individual.net ocooou$2u4$1 dont-email.me ocop3l$2u4$7 dont-email.me Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net P0WMmQgndjYe7pAxNifJ8gUFj+Zp/RtCTulkwPo6KWFzqK2bbY Keywords: VanguardLH VLH811 Cancel-Lock: sha1:PdKlmupn0Ru7zTiArQ35yOGp4jw= User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.41 Xref: news.eternal-september.org alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt:35959 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 |
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