Are there professional, automatic wire strippers?

[lozina]

My dad saw some automatic wirestripper on TV and decided to order it. I had no faith in it but he wanted to try it and it seemed to work good for him for the first week then the piece of junk just broke. You probably saw the ads for this thing... like this one

So now he's convinced there must be a professional tool like this and is hoping I can find one. All I can find is something that looks like this though I can't really see how it works from that pic... is that automatic- adjusting to any gauge wire?

Or have you had personal experience with some kind of autmatic wire stripper and would recommend it? Please give me a link for what you've used and can vouch for...

 

[CVSiN]

damn all i saw was Professional Strippers.... damn

 

[RU482]

I used to work at a place that made cordsets. The had an electric stripper that you just had to stick the wire end in, and it grabbed it and stripped it.

$$$$$$$$

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: CVSiN
damn all i saw was Professional Strippers.... damn

Selective reading FTW!

 

[BigJ]

There are, but they can run from several hundred to several thousand dollars depending on the type of wire.

 

[lozina]

Originally posted by: CVSiN
damn all i saw was Professional Strippers.... damn

hehe, yeah I imagine I'd get alot more views if I just titled this thread "Professional Stripper"

 

[lozina]

Originally posted by: BigJ
There are, but they can run from several hundred to several thousand dollars depending on the type of wire.

For a hand-held device? :Q

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: lozina

Originally posted by: BigJ
There are, but they can run from several hundred to several thousand dollars depending on the type of wire.

For a hand-held device? :Q

Not hand-held.

 

[KK]

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[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: lozina
My dad saw some automatic wirestripper on TV and decided to order it. I had no faith in it but he wanted to try it and it seemed to work good for him for the first week then the piece of junk just broke. You probably saw the ads for this thing... like this one

I got a set just like that in an auto toolkit from Walmart for $20 (with socket set, screwdriver, etc). It worked pretty well until I tried to use the wire cutter on something too heavy duty, then it basically exploded in my hand.

 

[lozina]

Originally posted by: KK
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That looks pretty good- have you used it? Does it jam up? One thing about this cheap one my dad got is it used ot jam up sometimes too

Also saw this one

 

[BigJ]

Lozina,

When you said professional, I thought you were referring to something like this:

http://www.schleuniger.com/DesktopDefault.aspx/tabid-44/

 

[lozina]

Originally posted by: BigJ
Lozina,

When you said professional, I thought you were referring to something like this:

http://www.schleuniger.com/DesktopDefault.aspx/tabid-44/

lol, those are pretty damn sweet looking- would be alot of fun having one of thos ein my garage

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: lozina

Originally posted by: KK
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That looks pretty good- have you used it? Does it jam up? One thing about this cheap one my dad got is it used ot jam up sometimes too

Also saw this one

Nah, I haven't used it. I just use something like this for wrapping wire.

 

[AMDZen]

I have a few friends that install cable and have some of these for coax, they work great. Not sure about those listed so far though and if there are better tools out there. I know they make them pretty specific for specific wire, but can at least vouch for the coax tool, if that helps any

 

[SuperSix]

A buddy bought these for me @ the Depot - http://www.mytoolstore.com/ideal/ide11-24.html

I love 'em..

 

[LordMorpheus]

yes, you can get really nice ones.

When you said automatic, though, I thought you were referring to one of those machines you load with a spool of wire, tell it how many peices you want, how long, and whether or not to strip the ends and then press the start button and it spits them out like a noodle machine - I like those.

 

[Cooler]

Originally posted by: tfinch2

Originally posted by: CVSiN
damn all i saw was Professional Strippers.... damn

Selective reading FTW!

Thats what I read as well.