[sdiy] Cutting Wire to Length

[cheater00 .]

What about putting two guillotines 10 cm apart? No need to precisely
position the wire, as extra wire will get cut away. You could tie
together their handles so that they both actuate in one motion.
You could put (transparent?) pipe between them so that the wire is
easier to put in.

D.

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Tom Bugs <admin at bugbrand.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
> Yeah, Tom, that's NOT what I'm asking this time (got a similar tool, yep)
> Here asking how to accurately cut many 10cm lengths (for example) -
> accurately (eg. +/-1mm) and quickly
> Quicker than laying the wires down piece by piece against a ruler..
>
> Sure there's some tool/arrangement, just don't really know the correct
> search terms!
>
> (yep, workbench with rolls of wire on some copper pipe - easy arrangement!)
>
> Cheers, Tom
>
>
> On 26/02/2014 09:37, Tom Wiltshire wrote:
>>
>> We used to use these (or some similar) at the place I used to work:
>>
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/Paladin-1113-Stripax-Stripper-Cutter/dp/B0006BHCFO/ref=sr_1_47?s=power-hand-tools&ie=UTF8&qid=1393407022&sr=1-47
>>
>> They're pretty good - you just stick the wire in the end, the orange
>> stopper acts as a backstop so you always get the same length, and then you
>> just squeeze the handles to strip. There were some others we had that looked
>> more like metal pliers, which had a screw adjustment for the wire thickness.
>> They were pretty good too, but I can't find a picture of those.
>> Between some tools like that, and a workbench with reels of wire and marks
>> drawn on the top for cutting lengths, we used to make up thousands of cables
>> by hand. Not that I'm claiming it wasn't a bit tedious...
>>
>> HTH,
>> Tom
>>
>> On 26 Feb 2014, at 09:20, Tom Bugs <admin at bugbrand.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, may seem obvious.. but.. what about in production environments?
>>>
>>> I use quite a lot of Tyco MTA connectors with single wires (standard
>>> stranded stuff).
>>> Now, making these one-by-one is quick and simple enough, but.. when you
>>> want to make several identical - getting all the wires the same length is a
>>> bit difficult.
>>> - eg. bunch the different wire colours together, hold against a ruler,
>>> snip, repeat (sounds easy!)
>>>
>>> Is there some sort of tool / arrangement that strips off a precise length
>>> of wire (talking cm&mm lengths typically)
>>> .. preferably not something costs several thousand £/$!
>>>
>>> Ideas?
>>> Ta, Tom
>>>
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