The trusty scalpel!

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Really? This coming from the commenter? If your gonna shit on my thread I'd appreciate a heads up. Full disclosure, I dissected frogs when I was young. :twisted: I even connected a battery to their precious little limbs. LOL

holy fuck, you are openly admitting to torturing animals. wow, just wow.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

maybe you missed the part of not having to eat soup with your fingers. It's not amazing, it's life changing.

I like you. You should post more.

 

[Childs]

Heh...judging from your posts in other threads I assumed you were in your 20's. Anyways, a utility knife, xacto, razor blade, or any thin sharp blade will do what you are doing. But whats strange is your method of striping cable. If you just go around the cable with the blade the casing will come right off...I dont see what the parallel cuts are achieving. If anything, it looks like its making it harder on yourself since you then used forceps to aid in the removal.

 

[disappoint]

maybe you missed the part of not having to eat soup with your fingers. It's not amazing, it's life changing.

I like you. You should post less. Get yourself out of this mess.:sneaky:

 

[Muse]

My father was a doctor, and he would give me his old scalpels. They worked really well on my balsa wood model plane kits. The rounded front leading edge makes it easier to follow patterns. Also doesn't dig into your work surface like a knife point will.

My father was a doctor and I inherited a lot of hospital tools from him but for whatever reason he never brought home a scalpel, or I never saw one. Dad was an anesthesiologist.

 

[Muse]

So I bought this scalpel on ebay and it has paid for its self already

So, how much did you pay for this scalpel?

 

[runzwithsizorz]

My father was a doctor and I inherited a lot of hospital tools from him but for whatever reason he never brought home a scalpel, or I never saw one. Dad was an anesthesiologist.

Ah yes, a person who puts people on his shoulders, and walks a tightrope for a couple of hours or more. The last thing he would need is a scalpel.
My father was a pathologist/mortician. The embalming/lab room was a converted garage in back of where we lived. Not only did I get used scalpels, I got formaldehyde to preserve some of the critters I brought home from tide pools at the beach. Trust me, a large starfish can really stink up the place without it.
EDIT: You should be very proud of your Father, for he is among the many unsung hero's of modern surgery!

 

[John Connor]

.I dont see what the parallel cuts are achieving. If anything, it looks like its making it harder on yourself since you then used forceps to aid in the removal.

I knew someone would ask this. It's just easier in fact with coaxial cable. It's how I used to do it at a young age when I was poor and had no cable stripper. Perhaps making a round cut on the ethernet cable would be sufficient.

 

[Childs]

I knew someone would ask this. It's just easier in fact with coaxial cable. It's how I used to do it at a young age when I was poor and had no cable stripper. Perhaps making a round cut on the ethernet cable would be sufficient.

Maybe I'll try it one day. Always seemed like the universal way to strip wire was to just insert the blade till you felt resistance, then pull back a hair and simply cut around the wire. Out of curiosity I checked YT to see how other people do coax, and the one with the most hits did use one length wise cut so he could just peel off the casing instead of pulling it off.

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

I always just twisted and pulled.

 

[MongGrel]

They come in handy as an antennae also.