[sdiy] Wire Strippers

[Ben Bradley]

In 1985 or so I spent $40 on Palladin wire strippers that looked a lot
like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Greenlee-1113-Stripax-Stripper-Cutter/dp/B0006BHCFO
They worked great for 30 years or so. The slide on top adjusts for
insulation thickness. The one you linked to.apparently asjusts
automatically as shown in the video, but I don't know how it does
that.

On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 at 18:46, Terry Bowman via Synth-diy
<synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
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> My bad eyesight is really giving me a hard time right now. I need new glasses and that will take months. Meanwhile, it's taking forever to strip a few wires. I have to look very closely at the stripper to find the right hole/slot over and over from one end to the next. This is ridiculous.
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> Is there such a thing as a "reliable" self-adjusting wire stripper that can do smaller wire, say 18-28AWG? I don't need the electrician's model.
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> I'm looking at the stuff all over this page and not getting particularly excited:
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> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085JSQ97Q/
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> I once saw something that works like a cigar "circumcisor" (as Dr. Gene Scott called it). That would be even more convenient. It might have been in a synth video. If I have to I'll buy more than one stripper and set each for a specific gauge.
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