Help me get a Stripper...

[Aaron Cheney]

... a wire stripper that is.

First off, I'm going to be doing a lot of pickup swapping here shortly. I want to get a nice set for stripping the wire leads on pickups and electronic size wires. I've seen the ones where you just stick your wire in and it measures and strips it perfectly every time to your lead length is always the same.

The only wire strippers I've ever owned are the more "industrial" size ones that you see everywhere with the long red handles.I've looked on around on the web, but it's hard to know what I'm looking at. I'll get to home Depot on Sat. , but until then what can you recommend? What gauges are we talkin' here?

What do you use Light?

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[lpdeluxe]

I personally have several pairs, but for pickup replacements I rely on a little pair of Radio Shack nippers that I probably paid a buck and a half for. The wire gauge is purty small with gits and this one will peel the little stuff without taking the wire along with it...always a problem with delicate wiring. I went to the RS web site & didn't find any. Guess I'll have to keep track of the pair I already have!

 

[Aaron Cheney]

(In best Yosemite Sam voice...) "Ahhh hates Radio Shack."

As much as I loathe everything about them, I went into one yesterday looking for some strippers, and they had nothing...but at least the clueless employees were aboslutely no help.

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[UhOh]

I went into a number of Radio Shack's for some electronics and technical advice that no employee could give me. At the last one I was a little frustrated and told the guy I had asked at other Radio Shack's and no one knew. I asked what happened to you have questions we have answers and the guy had the nerve to say to me "Yeah but they may not be the right answers." I wasn't laughing at the time but it seems funny now.

 

[lpdeluxe]

I didn't EVER say I went to RS for information!


...still use those strippers, though.

 

[Light]

I use THESE, and I actually did buy them at Home Depot. Everyone else in the shop likes THESE.


Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi

 

[Aaron Cheney]

There's what I'm after... Thanks.



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[Aaron Cheney]

Hey...

Here's another question: Has anybody found and easy way to take off the outermost sheild and all the "tin foil" stuff underneath it? Usually you have to strip off a good few inches of the stuff to give yourself room to route the individual wires inside, and it's always a pain...


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[reel buzzer]

Looks like Radio Shack employees are fully trained on cell phone technology, everything else is questionable.

 

[lpdeluxe]

cell phone TECHNOLOGY, or cell phone APPLICATION COMPLETION?

 

[Major Tom]

Ideal Stripmaster - you can get them at Home Depot I think, along with Grainger shown in the link someone posted above. I have used the same set for probably 20 years. As long as you put the wire in the right gauge slot, it makes a perfect strip every single time. That's what we used at a place I used to work - we made lots of electronic stuff, and did lots of small gauge wiring harnesses. they come in a couple gauge ranges, you would want the smaller.

 

[crazydoc]

You mean they actually make a tool for this?

 

[Aaron Cheney]

Now that's some heavy duty floss.


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