For thin wire I think they use the 'two rollers' setup. It just two rollers, both driven off a electric motor.
One roller can be adjusted so that the gap between the rollers is the same as the thickness of the actual Copper wire that's inside the plastic insulation.
You feed the insulated wire in and it squashes the plastic off to each side of then copper wire.
Then after doing enough of it. You pick up the Copper wire and pull off the loose plastic insulation strips.
I had the idea of making one from two largish electric motors, just the end plates (Cast Iron) and the shaft with the Iron-Aluminium core and two bearings still set into then end plates.
Then drive both of them using some sprockets and chain and a electric motor. All of that in a frame and a setup tp adjust one roller.
I sorta wish I hadn't taken it all in as scrap now.... I have 250kgs of plastic coated Copper wire.
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