Homemade industrial wire stripper

Ignoramus31473 · 2013-01-16T02:14:17+00:00

I would like to make a wire stripper. And by this, I do not mean those "look, mommy, I made a wire stripper from a knife blade and toy car wheels". I mean a powered industrial machine that is a) Safe in use b) Can strip significant amount of wire per hour c) Strips cables up to 1 inch thick. I can find a gear motor and other equipment without problems, I just wanted to see if anyone was aware of similar projects that worked out well. i

Jan 16, 2013 27 Replies

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richlilja 8 years ago

I found a good machine that you can make (I am going to make one also). This machine requires some rollers from an old excerise machine, a motor, b elt and some wood. It does not have any blades at all, and the insulation i s burnt off using only friction. This stripper can handle any type of wire you throw at it. You can see it in action here with instructions on how to build it;

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Good luck! Rich

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MOP CAP 8 years ago

I used one once that was made from a gear head motor, cutter[as in a wheel from a pipe cutter] which was spring loaded against a serrated wheel which drove the wire through and split the insulation. I don't think you could make one like this that would take a wide range of wire. The whole thing was mounted on the gear head. CP

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