Re: Wire Srippers
Re: Wire Srippers
I appreciate all the responses.
I've been using these things for fifteen to twenty years. A lot of you mention that they're good for bench work. I used to do tons of bench work and that's when I started using them.
I started doing electrical work about ten years ago but it didn't become my primary occupation until about five years ago. Needless to say these strippers went right from my bench to my tool box. (I don't use a tool belt but I just got one and might start)
I guess it might make a difference having already been very comfortable with them. I'll put it this way. I left a pair on a job, and couldn't find a new set, I was very not happy. I love these things.
Customers are very impessed by the fancy automatic action too. I hear a lot of stuff like, "so that's how you guys do that".
One of the reasons I'm asking about them is that I've never seen an electrician using them. Once another electrician asked if I had some strippers he could use for a splice up in a ceiling and I handed them to him, he looked at me like they were from mars. I gave them to a helper and he started trying to pull the insulation off the wire with them.
Someone said they'er too bulky. They are a little, but not that bad. The only wires I can't get to to strip with them is like old K & T where the conductor doesn't come out of the box. But I really can't get my klein strippers in there too good either.
RBJ, I used to do OEM military stuff. They do have a requirement for just about anything you can think of, and even stuff you can't. I don't remember having any issues with these. The teflon is pretty tough insulation, I would think that stuff would be affected the least. It's been a long time since I've seen teflon though.
Rattus finally hit on one of the things I was after. You've got to have the knives set right or you can damage the conductor more than I'm happy with.
Another benifit. One hand operation. Reaching as far as you can from a twenty foot ladder (not that anybody ever does that).
And finally the reason I thought to bring this up in the first place. The thread about how long the ground wire has to be before it's bonded to the box. You can rather easily strip wire in the middle of a conductor with these. For the ground wire I leave out a foot or so of wire, strip it in the middle, wrap it around the screw. The box is bonded and pig talied in one motion.