Those style machines do better on longer pieces of solid wire for me. They do ok on stranded #2. If you feed a spool into the stripper your numbers will surprise you. Each machine, like people, are better at one thing. By the time you strip one end of a the short piece and fed the wire you could have hand stripped it. To make this one work for me i would prep all the wire prior to starting. If you cant get spools,Cut all pieces to 6 ft lenghs, group all gauges ex. 12g and 14g, strip one inch from one end, work out any kinks or bends so they are straight. Next, run all the same size wire, then peel the batch, adjust stripper for next gauge wire and repeat. I don't think you will get rich stripping 2lbs of wire but formulating a review on less than 200 lbs would be incomplete. This machine might not be the right one for your material supply. Since the invention of the assembly line, civil war, one offs are hard to pigeon hole. Save up wire until you get enough to run and use a knife for the odd pieces that are different from the rest.
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