A log splitter? So THAT'S how you guys are stripping motors. Brill-yunt!Originally Posted by kbob
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A log splitter? So THAT'S how you guys are stripping motors. Brill-yunt!
I don't strip using a log splitter. I will be posting a break down of a mtr later today, Mike.
"Profit begins when you buy NOT when you sell." {quote passed down to me from a wise man}
Now go beat the copper out of something, Miked
BurlyGuys this is what i came up with to ''pull'' the wire from motors.First of all i am not going to explain how to get motor stripped down i will assume that is a given.With one end of wire cut from armature,i drop armature in a bracket that fits over the ''foot'' of splitter,then i fabed a pair of heavy duty nail pullers with a small peice of chain attached to each handle.These plyers look something like catfish skinners but much heavier.Next step the pullers are pinned on the ram side of cylinder and ready to pull.I run ram out and pinch a ''mouthfull'' of copper and pull,works slick.I have come across a few motors that the wires have been coated and difficult to pull but overall works well.My problem is a quanity of motors to work on
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I have one, I am investing my money in another direction currently so I didn't buy a rigbee. It has already paid itself off. It does not come with a proper manual, so I learned by trial and error. Given the operations are pretty self explanitory, I purchased it from affordable tools and they have run the machine and are pretty familiar with how it functions, I will say I have called them with a couple questions and they were more than willing to help. The smaller sdt 19 ports, four of the ports with individual blades for stripping ext cords and other multi insulated or jacketed material, after reading your thread I ran a piece of 20 ga and it stripped it, although I had the machine set up for 500 mcm so I had to pull the insulation off, it took me less than 10 seconds to run/pull insul off of 20 feet. Far from the best stripper but beats doing it by hand with a knife. not to mention cutting your labor time down drasticly. Hope this helps sean
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Yes it does help, Sean. Its good to hear from someone who has acutally used one of these machines with the 20 ga. wire.
I have a small but re-occourring supply of 20-12 ga wire. I would like to go after more but its too difficult to stipe the stranded wire by hand.
This could prove to be a good direction for me. I have some physical restrictions and I can pick up handfuls of wire. Thanks to all who have contributed. If and when I do get a stripper I will report back, Mike.
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Hi Sean, I was wondering if yours was the res model from Arpi USA? If that's not the one, would you be willing to list the one you bought? I'm looking for one, but was hoping to find confirmation and a review(s) from someone who's actually used a particular make/model that they work on the smaller wire. Thanks!
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The sdt-wra40 is the one I purchased. Like I said it has paid itself off already but I would still categorize it as commercial grade versus industrial grade. Don't get me wrong it is has helped indefinitely as an initial starter tool, but I have already started to out grow it. My application for this machine is primarily larger cable, I granulate the smaller wire. I ran some small wire just to validate that it is capable of doing it. Sean
I learned a lot from this website and have had fun reading and talking to the members. I made a couple of strippers that were shown on this website and a couple I copied from others(striptec K). I couldn't strip fast enough. I bought a striptech model A, the $79 ebay blue one, and the Stripinator 918. I agree with REWIRE, the 918, similiar to the SDT, is a light commercial unit. I hope it lasts forever and I get better with it but I still don't think it is a heavy duty work horse. My favorite stripper has to be the orginal stanley fixed blade. It just sits in my had right, doesn't jam, has multi use, and is the goto for unjaming all the other strippers
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Thanks very much for that info Sean, I appreciate it! Always love to hear from someone who has the experience with the actual piece of equipment in question!
I have not done anything smaller than 14g solid in quantity. I found that cutting the wire into 4 ft sections makes seperation and feeding less of a mess. It has a 110v 3hp motor and works best on small to medium feeder wire. I tried using the crushing wheel on small stranded and ended up with flat insulated wire. I haven't done the math but I don't think using a 3hp motor to strip 20g wire would be profitable unless you get spools of it. The prep time(cutting wire for feeding, putting all like wire together, and bending it somewhat straigt, removing twist and connectors) and seperation(picking up BB and putting in bin, looking for uncut or missed strip wire) takes me 2 times longer than feeding the machine. The feed rate of the machine is 125ft/min and wire weight was borrowed from a wire chart. The feed rate was reduced to reality because I timed myself and used actual times because the machine is proecssing nothing while you are picking up a piece of wire to feed it.
#20 g solid
323ft =1lbs
50ft feed rate
feed 20g wire for 1 hour
3000ft stripped wire=9lbs processed
80% recovery 7lbs BB or 3 hours of work for 7 lbs
Same thing #12g solid
50ft =1lbs
50 ft feed rate
feed 12g wire for 1 hour
3000ft stripped =60 lbs
80% recovery 48lbs of BB
I think it depends on what you buy your wire for
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