being a past sufferer of cancer and a curent copd and infamacema patient burning wire insulation is not good for children and other living things. as stasted above they reliece Dioxen, bad bad stuff. but I sure hate taking wire to the yard because it is too small to strip and getting .40 a lb. I tried MEK works great but I made $5 extra on a half bucket fo comm wire ( computer wire) lol cost me $18 bucks for the MEK, back to the drawing board, there just has to be a way.