Rumor has it that you guys are the wire stripping experts when it comes
to the fine stuff. I'm about to buy an Ideal Stripmaster (20 - 30 AWG)
auto wire stripper from HMC Electronics for $32.50 and am wondering if
this is a good buy? Already have one (miscellaneous brand) covering the
range 16 - 22 AWG. Any advice would be appreciated...Thanks!
I strip my wire with an "ordinary" wire stripper, a plier like tool with
sharp edged holes that close and cut the insulation. You have to hand
pull on the wire to force the cut insulation off. I have a Jenson
45b100 for #30 to #22 AWG and a Klien 11045 for #16 to #10 AWG. I
don't remember what I paid for these tools but I would expect to be able
to replace them today for maybe $10 each.
I also have an automatic stripper (Speedex Trig o matic) that I
seldom use. It has a set of insulation cutters and a gripper device.
It will both sever the insulation and pull the cut part off the wire
with a single squeeze of the handles. It's a fancier tool and might
cost $30 or so today. If mine broke or disappeared I probably would not
replace it, where as if either of my ordinary strippers were lost I'd be
buying a replacement within a week.
David Starr
On 1/5/07 11:51 AM, in article
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Buy it. The nice thing with strippers like this is you don't run the risk of
nicking the wire or cutting off strands unless you deliberately place the
wire in the wrong slot on the tool. About the only better stripper would be
a pair of thermal strippers.
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de N2MPU Jack
Modeling the NYC/NYNH&H in HO and CP Rail/D&H in N
On 1/6/07 4:56 PM, in article 4i5tydlrnb7y$.1wass8jba92my$. snipped-for-privacy@40tude.net,
Hardly, Beavis.
Thermal strippers work on the same basis as resistive soldering stations,
except instead of pointed or shovel-head shaped electrodes, you have
electrodes that have a U-shaped electrode on each side of the handpiece, and
this wire has a bump in it where the wire goes. Place stripper around the
wire you want stripped, activate the handpiece (usually by a footswitch),
squeeze the handpiece ends together, and pull back on the handpiece. This
strips the wire nice and clean.
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de N2MPU Jack
Modeling the NYC/NYNH&H in HO and CP Rail/D&H in N
(tempted to reply "Yeah, I know Butthead" but I'll resist)
And one of the nice things about them is much less chance of even a minor
nick to start a otential failure point on the conductor.
Still, the thought of some corn fed honey (the Valkyric woman cop from
Northern Exposure?) in a Minnesota farmer hat, earflaps and all, is
diverting. Would be great with Randy Newman singing "You can leave your
hat on".
There is a line of wire strippers used in the precison electronics industry
called No-Nik (?sp) which are made in specific sizes to exactly fit standard
wire gauges. They're so good that they are routinely used as the wire
stripper of choice for a technique called Wire-Wrap in which a stripped end
of a 30 ga. wire is wound around a .025" sq. post so tightly that the
corners of the post are embeded into the wire to hold it in place
sufficiently tightly to satisfy most MIL-spec vibration tests. One nick in
these wires is fatal. While they retail for over $50 each, they're
available irregularly on eBay around $10-15 each. If you're really worried
about reliability, there's almost no alternative.
Norm
The odds of you ever seeing one of these in person absent you spending
a very large amount of money are too small to calculate.
For you, there is always Playboy and the bathroom.
Steve Caple wrote:
No Steve, sadly I am not. We know your love life consists of this.
What is preventing you from finding a real woman is it your looks or
something deeper?
Steve Caple wrote:
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:10:11 -0800, David Nebenzahl wrote:
Yep, for 28 years, and after a 40 day courtship. She's in by the fire
finishing knitting our god-daughter a baby sweater for the shower she's
giving her this Sunday.
X-No-Archive
It is obvious you two are the same person using two names. Sad you
even post to yourself?
And Steve (or is it David) lying is a sin and you should not do it.
You are not even 28 years old let along married. Come on, what guy
your age would be posting on a train board?
Steve Caple wrote:
The automatics are nice, but no way do you have to spend those kind of
$bux. I got mine at a discount tool place for about $6. Made in China, I
use them all the time and they work great.
As others have pointed out, they prevent the wire from being badly
nicked, if used properly. That means you have to use the right set of
"teeth" for the gauge of wire you're stripping.
They're even better than the ordinary pliers-type of stripper: squeeze
the handles, let go, then pull, and the insulation comes off. No picking
at it with your fingers or fingernails.
Check Harbor Freight (http://harborfreight.com); they've probably got them.
--
Just as McDonald's is where you go when you're hungry but don't really
care about the quality of your food, Wikipedia is where you go when
Here's Harbor Freight's version:
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?ItemnumberB101
$5.99
My only complaint about these, which look identical to my Chinese-made
ones, is that the stupid plastic handle grips fall off and are useless.
Throw them away, and bend the handles outward slightly for more joy.
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Just as McDonald's is where you go when you're hungry but don't really
care about the quality of your food, Wikipedia is where you go when
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