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Picked up a new Jokari wirestripper , old ones hit and miss with fine cable. Automatic 0.2mm to 6 mm . Used them years ago for work, but only 1mm to 6mm. Does not cut any of the fine strands on the HL cable.

Seriously, just ease a scalpel blade across the plastic coating and then pinch it away with your thumb nail. I do it that way from micro instrument wires to household ring main cable. My grandfather was an electrical engineer and l learnt from watching. It's so much easier, quicker and cheaper. Try it!

Perhaps someone will move that to "Tips & Tricks".

Done the same with an xacto.

Eastern Front wrote:Just use your teeth..

Stripping and flossing at the same time...a good idea

I use items like this from when I used to fit people a car audio and hands-free kits.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/113904478658?c ... gKVHfD_BwE

Work every time, just buy a decent quality like draped expert and they last forever. Had mines for 15yrs

Hi Will01 They key word is quality, no use comparing a cheap copy with an old draper expert. Good tools are expensive and easy to work with, old saying buy cheap buy often.

ronnie42 wrote:Hi Will01 They key word is quality, no use comparing a cheap copy with an old draper expert. Good tools are expensive and easy to work with, old saying buy cheap buy often.

Totally agree
As for the flossing and stripping that did make me laugh haha, but you can see people a mile off f they used to do this as a living as you see a nice groove cut into their teeth lol

My missus swears by her Lindstrom strippers, they are quite basic looking, but very good. She also just uses wire cutters, I guess with practice it works like teeth.

I also floss, use wire cutters and a Stanley knife, the latter usually on single core household wiring, if you hold the blade still, 9 times out of 10 the sleeve easily turns on the wire.

The only danger with not using proper strippers on very fine multicore cable/wires is that it is easy to damage the thin strands, either losing the odd one or two with the insulation, or inadvertently causing damage that will weaken the wires at the connection causing an eventual break.

I mostly use those strippers: