Thanks miked, I decided to buy one for this job, I was going to try your table saw idea if it didn't work. But it did work.
Here is my review on this stripper:
$55 plus $15 shipping on ebay. "Crank Arm Operated CABLE WIRE Stripping Machine"
it looked a lot bigger online, but size doesn't matter. You get the hang of it pretty quickly. Wires the size of the red wires that go from the tv tube to the flyback transformer strip the fastest. any smaller is more difficult, but can be done. I mounted it to my table and drilled a hole about 1" in front of it. I feed the wire up through the bottom of the table to the machine to keep it straight.
The blade was not "razor" sharp, as I assumed it would be. And seems to cut with the pressure and not the sharpness. this makes stripping extention cords difficult, because the pressure needed to strip the outer layer of insulation, cuts through the inner insulated wires. Making a mess. Maybe mine was used before and the blade was dull? did anyone else get one with a "razor" sharp edge? I might look into buying a new blade later.
CAREFULL!! when doing larger wires I hold the wire about 5" from the machine with my left hand pull to straighten it out and keep it on track. It grabbed my glove once and gave me a scare. Ripped the finger off my glove. I got to worried about going fast. I slowed down now, and am more carefull.
It handled wire as big as welding leads. And It easily stripped the 1/2" wire I was talking about, hard and thick insulation. Chopped it into about 15' lengths with my Ax, and in about an hour I had 100 lbs of BB CLEAN COPPER! This machine paid for itself on this one job for me.
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