Wire strippers - Page 2

Ive used a dremmel tool before to strip large gauge wires, for smaller I just use wire strippers and my hands. Takes alot of patience but I have the time.

Will, I tried wire strippers but the first time I put the wire in my vise and pulled it taunt and ran my utility knife blade down the wire, I was amazed at how fast it went.

Has anybody used a "Strip-Tec" Model K? It looks promising but I'd like some reveiws. Same question with the "WS" style wire strippers out of England. Anybody have one?

Seems like most wire strippers are made for stripping large gage cables but 95% of what I get is 18-12 gage wire either solid or stranded. I'd love to find a fast way to strip 18 gage stranded wire without shelling out $25K for a granulator.

I'm still using a utility knife and while I'm really good and fast with it, I get more wire than I can strip and have probably accumulated about 10 barrels of it (I bet I have a ton of it if I could get it all stripped).

Originally Posted by fiat128

Has anybody used a "Strip-Tec" Model K? It looks promising but I'd like some reveiws. Same question with the "WS" style wire strippers out of England. Anybody have one?

Seems like most wire strippers are made for stripping large gage cables but 95% of what I get is 18-12 gage wire either solid or stranded. I'd love to find a fast way to strip 18 gage stranded wire without shelling out $25K for a granulator.

I'm still using a utility knife and while I'm really good and fast with it, I get more wire than I can strip and have probably accumulated about 10 barrels of it (I bet I have a ton of it if I could get it all stripped).

im in the same boat as you alot of my insulated wire is 16ga to 10ga & some 8 ga all stranded wire. 10 & 8 isnt so bad with a knife but the other stuff just isnt happening. The insulated price vs stripped is to big of a margin so im ready to strip.

So id love to see even a manual stipper that does that small with ease.

Some of them advertise that they will go down to 14ga but I don't know about smaller. Some have quite a bit of adjustment so it might be something you'd have to play with for awhile. Haven't bought one yet,, it's on my wish list.

mine, too M688...do you have a particular model picked out yet ?

lol M 688....thanks for posting the pic

That's a scrap metalscrap metalscrap metalscrap metal good idea, adding a foot controlled motor to that.

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That's keeping me in suspense,,,

adding a foot controlled motor

That's the easy part, the hard part like I said will be adding a custom cupholder for the beer,,lol

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

http://www.copperwirestripper.net/ws...st-seller.html

I like the idea of a 2 year warranty plus a repair service after that.
This one you can pull the handle off and add a variable speed drill. I think I'd like to add a small motor off of a sewing machine with the foot pedal, I'm just lazy that way,,,lol That way both hands are free to work the wire and use the foot to control the speed. The only other thing; I'd have to add a cup holder for the cold beer!!!

I have this stripper and for the price, I absolutly love it..... works well..... I got it from e-bay and I didn't even know they have a web site

So destructo, what sort of wire are you stipping with that? Will it do 18 gage or are you getting big cable. I never seem to get anything that heavy.

Let us know, I'm about to pull the trigger on that (probably mod it like described above. I was thinking of adding wire straighteners on the feed side too to get the kinks out) but I'd like to hear how it works on common gages of wire.

rigbee wire stripper is the best, cost between 9k-15k new. It's a 4 screw stripper, and will strip armored cable. coax is considered an iron clad(steel wire plated with copper), only worth a couple cents a pound. not worth stripping in my opinion.

Anyone had any experience with this machine? Am seriously considering it. Have younger children and wife is on my case about spending too much time stripping wire. Would probably be something safe enough that the kids could help me with. I do scrapping on a casual basis and hope to encourage the kids to help by using the money towards doing fun stuff and vacations. It's a little pricey but I think it might be worth it. Also thinking about asking my electrician how his business handles all their scrap wire.

Thanks!

http://www.newmantradingcompany.com/...08-Wire/Detail

I wonder if you can put a 1 hp motor on this machine?