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Alright, I have another question for you experts, I picked up alot of copper wire at a job we have yesterday. What do you guys use to strip it? I dont really want to spend $50 on one of those by tnt tooling. Is there one that you guys made yourself? Will it also do the wire that comes in extension chords? Thanks guys i really appreciate it.
personally I use a carpet knife but I only strip Romex, everything else goes for ICW...insulated copper wire
Lots have been written on the forum just do a search. Mike
Here we go again!
After this thread dies out I am going to start a once and for all thread on this topic.
That will deal with things like:
Time
Current price
Types of wire
Your amounts of wire
Again time versus monies.
Hobby scrapper
ETC
ETC
I think it really can be boiled down to how much wire you have and how often you receive wire. If you have a ton of wire and know you'll be getting more in the future it's worth it to buy a machine to help you out, rather than pay someone (or yourself) to do it manually.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abuilder
Sorry if I offended you by making this post. Im not sure what has gone on in the past of this forum. Sorry again.
Sorry about that metz12
This topic has come up SO many times that it get kinda old. :)
Use the search on top and read even half of the post on this topic and you will be an expert! LOL
10 kg Copper #1 @ NZ$7/kg = NZ$70 = US$50+ = Wire stripper!
In mechanic668's post, the first wire stripper diagram....
I used 6 sections of a Brass window latch, the sort thats a long strip of Brass with a bunch of holes in it to hold the window open by different amounts.
That as the metal strips in the diagram, 4 side by side and one front & one rear, and two hose clamps to hold it all together....
To make a wire stripper.....
At the time I was stripping the outer sheath off telecom wire and passing it thru the holes in the two longer strips.
Later I changed the arrangement so they are beside the sharp blade (one section off a boxcutter knife blade).
This make for a wide gateway for the wire, but I can put different size screwdriver blades thru the holes to make a different height ajustment for different cables.
This was for CRT degaussing cables and braided cables like between computer & printer.
Honestly, it took me 4 weeks of putting the project off, and five minutes once I started it to get the whole idea sorted out and put together.
I started stripping it with a carpet knife Aswell and it goes really slow. I decided to buy a stripper on eBay that was homemade for $15, it ended up being junk and I threw it out. Next I purchased a vise mount tnttooling wire stripper that was manual, and it worked better than by hand, but also still was hard on hands and time consuming. So recently I purchased the drill powered desk mount one and it works great, when I get like 50 lbs of the same gauge wire I set it to that and tape the drill trigger down and feed the 3-4 foot strands through, and than pick them all up and peel the casing off. Wire. Strippers no matter what kind aren't worth setting if you have 1000 different sizes of wire, they are more useful in bulk.
I used one of the links that was given to me in this post. Its the sheetrock screw into a 2x4 method. thing works great. once in a while the screw gets worn down but i just replace the screw since i get them from work. I strip romex with it and it works awesome! much easier then with a utility knife.