Recommendations for self-adjusting wire stripper

[Chexposito]

Originally Posted by Tungrus

I had hard time figuring ferrule sizes, what do you use for 12, 14 and 16 AWG wires? Thanks.

Check digikey, they size by wire gauge.

[tr6scott]

Originally Posted by Tungrus

I had hard time figuring ferrule sizes, what do you use for 12, 14 and 16 AWG wires? Thanks.

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.

[2508electronics]

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

[JDL]

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.

[Jim Wilks]

Originally Posted by tr6scott

We just got a used set of the WEIDMULLER STRIPAX and really like the depth gauge, and it can strip very fine to 10ga, but does require tension adjustment between the two extremes.

Once you try premium strippers like these, you just won't go back to the cheapo ones again.

[philso]

Originally Posted by Labman

I wish someone made an easy stripper for the AWG 6 battery cables. Anyone have ideas?

Use a utility knife or a cable slitter like the one below. The video in the link shows how to use it properly.

http://www.grainger.com/product/WEST...-Slitter-1YMZ9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3TnvUT5Bls


Otherwise, you could use one of these:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/100961862719407130044/albums/6099819280228373393/6099819286395518898?pid=6099819286395518898&oid=10 0961862719407130044
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/100961862719407130044/albums/6099819280228373393/6099819301804185586?pid=6099819301804185586&oid=10 0961862719407130044

The cable is inserted into the silver coloured port at the bottom of the second picture. Two seconds later, the cable jacket is slit without nicking the conductors. We use it for 6AWG up to 500MCM.

[Mr. Lim]

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.