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Best Wire Strippers for small AWG Electronic Repair in 2022?
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GLouie:
Holes are used for bending loops or hooks on the ends of stripped wires. Think electricians and solid wires. Holes at the tips can be used to grab wires and move them.


--- Quote from: bflores on July 21, 2022, 12:52:35 am ---What is the purpose of all these round holes?



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free_electron:

--- Quote from: tooki on July 12, 2022, 10:06:59 pm ---The kind I have been using for short, precise stripping lengths are the CK precision ones like the one in the attached photo. They come both in a few ranges of adjustable (with the 330013 covering exactly the range you want) or single fixed wire gauges.

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Yup. that's the one.

all the rest is crap on a stick

David Hess:

--- Quote from: bd139 on July 11, 2022, 07:59:23 pm ---Ideal Industries T strippers are my goto ones. They last forever and don’t damage the wires.

https://www.idealind.com/us/en/shop/product-type/hand-tools/wire-strippers/tr-6-tr-stripper-wire-stripper.html
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I have used several different types of wire strippers over the years and like the Ideal T-Strippers as well.  I currently have the Klein versions, but I think they were made by the same OEM, just with different handles.
tooki:

--- Quote from: deadlylover on July 21, 2022, 04:17:48 pm ---The actual stripping quality is A+, but the usability is more like a B rating.

Even though it has the "wire guides" you do have to take a bit of care to make sure the wire is mostly positioned in the cutting die. This is okay for bench use but sometimes in the field it can be annoying (like inside a car trying to repair wire and you have limited space to work with).

You also have to squeeze completely so the jaws open up and you can move the wire away. Sometimes when I'm tired I don't "cycle" the tool fully and the wire stays there and gets crushed by the tool closing back in, it basically destroys the wire so I have to cut and strip again (it has a very sudden "snap" back so it's too late to react in time hahaha).

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I’ve used other brands of similar-style strippers (but that were very old and rickety, so useless for determining stripping quality) so I know exactly what you mean about crushing the wire from an incomplete cycle!!


--- Quote from: deadlylover on July 21, 2022, 04:17:48 pm ---Also the plastic length stop piece will disappear into the Shadow Realm, I lost mine a few months in. For anything critical I just trim down the exposed wire with a shear-type cable cutter (Knipex 95 11 165).

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That’s disappointing. A reliable depth stop is an absolute must-have for me, because post-strip trimming makes it basically impossible to precisely match the lengths of wires for multi-pin connectors. That’s what I like about the CK strippers: the depth stop can be set to practically zero, stepless with no detents. It’s not automatic, in that one must manually select the wire gauge and depth stop, but once you’ve dialed that in correctly, every strip is perfect and consistent, no need to align onto a guide. Insert, squeeze, pull, releas. Works exceedingly well for small connectors like JST XH, which requires a strip length of 2.0mm ±0.3mm. But it’s a small tool, so some finger strength is required compared to the ones you squeeze with your whole hand.

I have been eyeing the Knipex 95 22 165 (same thing as yours, but spring loaded and with ergo grips). I have a perfectly serviceable set of cable shears now, but I want something with fatter, ergonomic grips.


--- Quote from: deadlylover on July 21, 2022, 04:17:48 pm ---It's good for some extremely slippery PTFE wire that a cheaper Jokari style tool will just slip on (I think the better auto strippers might be okay, but I still don't like having the wire crushed because I often use crimp terminals that do the insulation crimp as well).

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Aye. PTFE, Kapton, and irradiated PVC are all tough to strip with ordinary strippers.
Neomys Sapiens:
The yellow adjustable ones (OK) are not bad. And for serial work the veritable Stripmaster (with the correct blades) reigns supreme - contrary to Stripax and related ones the circular cavities cut the insulation over most of the circumference instead of notching it from two sides and ripping it off. It is for good reason the tool recommended or specified for MilAero work.
But as you said 'Repair' this is not of much use to you. Repair work can involve wires which are already too short, have some damage and also it involves working in tight spots and avoiding damage to other parts.
For such applications I recommend either Bernstein Mod. 3-835-2 or EREM 510E. I have both and like them.
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