Re: Recommendations for self-adjusting wire stripper
 

I have used both the home depot ones and the irwin ones.

The home depot ones are not that impressive, while our team has liked the Irwin ones so much the we bought a 2 pairs after using a members for a while.

Once properly adjusted they will take the sheathing of cat 5 with one squeeze and strip all 8 strands with the second squeeze.

The main thing that our team likes about it though, is that it will strip both sides of 12 awg zip-cord at the same time. And with the stop it lets you keep the stripped amount consistent for your whole robot.

We've had all brands and styles of wire strippers in our lab and have settled on one as being the best we've seen so far (and by a lot).

The Ideal brand Grip and Strip is the only one we buy now. It seems like everything else is a waste of money.

We standardised on 12 and 18 gauge wire on the robot, and it strips both nicely.

They are very student-proof, and don't over strip causing weak connections.

Re: Recommendations for self-adjusting wire stripper
 

http://www.clrwtr.com/PDF/Weidmuller...ccessories.pdf

I had a hard time finding it to in Weidmuller site.

I also just checked with our purchasing guy at the shop, and it seems we use ZF ferrules as the shop consumables, as the ZF products are about the 1/3 of the cost of the Weidmuller.

http://www.zf-usa.com/ferrules/

It appears that their tools look very similar to the Weidmuller line, and our Weidmuller distributor is also the Z+F distributor.

I have both ferrules on my desk at the moment, and can not tell them apart.

Re: Recommendations for self-adjusting wire stripper
 

My team has the good old fashioned ones with the different sized holes but since I am the only one that does wiring, I just bring my own wire strippers in. I have the Gardner Bender Wire Strippers. They are small and durable and work very well unless I touch the end of the wires after eating pizza because of the grease. A few tries then and it strips no problem. They work from 10g up to about 26-28g wire. I got them at Menards for about $20. Oh and it also has wire cutters and crimping for the standard red, blue and yellow connectors along with larger bare connectors (I think it is 4-8g bare connectors)

http://www.gardnerbender.com/en/gs-394

Re: Recommendations for self-adjusting wire stripper
 

Ideal Stripmaster's. Every industrial control panel shop has like a hundred of them laying around, they are the goto.

The Klein version the orange box sells are ok but the handles come off, I bought one to try and after the first terminal cabinet I had to glue them back on.

Re: Recommendations for self-adjusting wire stripper
 

We've got the Irwin ones this year. They're amazing.. changed my life.

Re: Recommendations for self-adjusting wire stripper
 

Call me old-school... my personal favorite:

http://www.claussco.com/product/375762/ACM18651/_/7.5%22+Ti+Wire+Stripper?utm_source=google&utm_medi um=cpc&utm_campaign=adwords_pla&os=pla&m=3980&c=6& gclid=CNTqv_TxmMMCFVU8gQodzgoAew