A wire stripping machine I want to make, but on a much smaller scale Table Top Size

**CapitalRecovery** · 11-03-2016, 06:43 PM

Hey Guys
I am thinking about making this Wire Stripping machine but much smaller so I can fit it on my work bench. Anyway let me know what you think. I have been looking for a wire stripper that would be universal for most wire. I want to be able to through more than just a hand full too. Anyway here it is.

**RLS0812** · 11-03-2016, 06:48 PM

Originally Posted by CapitalRecovery

I am thinking about making this Wire Stripping machine but much smaller so I can fit it on my work bench.

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Something like THESE GUYs ?

**HipoGear** · 11-03-2016, 07:08 PM

It's not going to be universal. This type of machine design only works with solid wire. I think I 'm in the market for a good wire stripper too. The prices for most of them are hard to justify though. Funny thing is, I probably have most of the parts on hand to build one of these.

**miked** · 11-03-2016, 07:10 PM

I had a wire stripper which used a rotating blade and a hand drill to run it. It worked well but my business went a different more profitable(for me)direction.

In the video he is stripping solid copper wire rather than stranded. Using that machine with stranded wire would be a challenge. In my case I rarely got more than a few feet of wire which will change how productive and SAFE it is to use.

73, Mike

**HipoGear** · 11-03-2016, 07:36 PM

Check out this table top version. I think he may have had some unresolved design challenges. But it works!

**HipoGear** · 11-03-2016, 08:00 PM

I really like the design of this one for stranded wire. That big wheel looks like it would be easy to use.

**billygoat** · 11-03-2016, 08:17 PM

I recall someone using the cutting wheel from a pipe/tubing cutter to strip stranded wire. Don't remember how he set it up though. A good reason for the OP to search through the old threads and try to find it.

Edit: HipoGear posted after I started posting the above but before I finished. (I'm slow sometimes.) I just want to comment on the title of the video. Stranded wire from a power cord would be #2 copper, not bare bright no matter how bright and shiny it is.