I bought a very similar one and I love it.
One thing you might want to think about is what types of wires you intend to strip...
You've got cables like an extension cord that have an outer layer of rubber/plastic, then three insulated wires inside. Some of them also have paper or sisal rope wound inside with those three wires. On these kinds, I do not strip the ones that have paper/rope wound inside, but I do strip the ones with just wire wound inside.
Then you've got the regular old lampcords, the kind with 2 wires malded together but that you can split apart by hand if you nick one end. Those are my bread & butter. I strip them all day long if they're bigger than like 18 or 20 guage.
TV degaussing cables are SUPER easy to strip with these... that's one of the main reasons I got it.
Lastly, I'd suggest getting all your wires ready to actually strip for copper before you start stripping, better yet, separate them into same sized pile before you start if you have room, so you're not constantly fiddling with the side adjusters.
Then, when you go to put a wire in, get it fairly tight between the 2 side rollers, but with enough slack to move. Leave yourself plenty of slack between the bottom roller & the blade to feed like an inch or 2 through the stripper so you have enough wire to grab & pull. Then, tighten the bottom roller up until just before you actually feel the stripper vibrate from cutting the actual copper inside. You don't want to go that deep. You don't need to go that deep to strip the wire, and if you do it'll just fray all to pieces & you won't be able to get it all out. Just a decent deep score on the insulation to give it a failure point is really all you need. Then, I keep a small pair of channellocks with a good end bite on them to pinch/pull open the scoring at one end of the wire, then pull the copper by hand while the channellocks hold the insulation.
I'm sure all that I just typed won't make any sense at all until you start using your stripper, but after a few wires you go, "OH!!"
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