My internet connection is a bit slow today so i couldn't run the video.
I got a machine similar to yours a couple of weeks ago. There's a certain learning curve with it. Been running all different kinds of stuff through it. It seems to do the solid strand pretty well. It doesn't seem to do the finely stranded wire well. The twisted well pump wire like down at the bottom left of the pic is more work.
Overall , it's quite a bit of labor. So far, i've got about 40 lbs of bare bright & 35 lbs of wire that stripped out as tarnished as black or green. I tried soaking one test batch of tarnished in white vinegar overnight. That cleaned up to pass for bare bright. Did another test batch in (dilute) Muriatic acid last night and that turned out as well when i checked it this morning.
Maybe it depends on what gauge wire you're stripping ? I would imagine that you could really make some money if you had 6 ga cable with a single layer of insulation to slice through. That would go like nobody's business. 14 Ga that you pulled out of romex would be a quite a bit more work to rack up the same number of pounds.
Hope to check the video later cause that's the work i'm doing today. Always up for learning better ways of doing the job.
Later edited to add:
I just ran a couple of 1/0 battery cables that were 4' long. Each weighed about 1.76lb and netted 1.39 of #2 copper after the insulation was removed. Took about a minute to strip each one.
That would be about 83lbs -or- 140.00 $/hr.
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