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Automatic Wire Strippers are great gifts!

ntewinkel

Happy Holidays Everyone!

If you're a few weeks behind like I am, here is a great belated gift for anyone working with electronics: automatic wire strippers.

What makes them great is that they just happily do the job of stripping the insulation off the wire without us having to know the size of the wire - it magically just knows!

These Jokari T20050 (Newark part number33P8621) ones are really nice:

Jokari Wire Strippers

https://www.newark.com/jokari/t20050/automatic-wire-stripper-super4/dp/33P8621?st=automatic%20wire%20stripper

Hopefully SecretSanta 2021 will help bring these to someone who can really put them to good use!

Seasons Greetings and Happy New Year!

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  • in reply to ntewinkel

    I should add - I probably wouldn't use it for anything thicker than 18AWG, for fear of hurting them. For house (and the bigger automotive) wire thickness I have a bigger stripper designed for that (a basic Canadian Tire model).

  • in reply to DAB

    Hi , it claims from 10 to 24. I haven't paid much attention to wire gauge actually - either it strips or fails to strip :D

  • in reply to dougw

    There's a bit of a close-up of the Stripmaster 45-672 with 30 AWG wire here:

    https://youtu.be/97Pa0_XC0_w?t=751

  • in reply to dougw

    Hi Doug,

    I don't know of any single truly universal wire stripper for all wire and insulation types, but almost all of the above requirements are met by Knipex 12 12 02 - it exceeds the wire size range you mention, easily supporting 16 to 32 AWG. There is a blog discussing its sibling model 12 12 06 here  (near-identical tool but for a different wire range). 

    Both are really good, I use them regularly, however another good tool with just slightly less range on either end of the range you specify, it covers 24 to 30 AWG, is Stripmaster 45-672 which I mention because its head is much smaller than the Knipex tools, to meet your tight spot needs. I prefer the Stripmaster tool all general PCB wiring, especially 30 AWG Kynar wire, which it feels purpose-built for, it is so good on that. I use it with thicker general equipment wire too, e.g. typical stranded wire. It's no good for (say) inside-chassis mains wiring, for which I move to the Knipex tool since it supports the thicker wires.

    Incidentally, on all of these tools mentioned, you can strip sections of wire that are maybe just 15mm long, i.e. the wires are so short you'd have to hold the wire with tweezers and feed one end into the wire stripper. So, it's possible to prepare ultra-short length wires with just a couple of mm stripped off either end, no problem at all with these styles of wire strippers.

    They cut amazingly well, no comparison with the stamped-metal notch types. (However for building/home mains wiring, the tools mentioned above are overkill and not ideal.. instead, I like the pliers with notches shaped for the wire, they are super-quick on the PVC insulation that is expected for that scenario).

    No single tool unfortunately, but the Kipex one and especially the Stripmaster if you can sacrifice one gauge on either end : ) would appear to be closest from my perspective.

  • Does it work down to 30 gage wire?