Wire stripper

A wire stripper is a tool that facilitates the stripping of cables. Target of stripping is to separate the mostly consisting of plastic or rubber insulation from electrical conductors in the form of wire or stranded wire so that it is not damaged.

Working carefully

Even minor damage ( notching ) may adversely affect the quality or reliability of electrical connections. Especially with strands of many individual wires must be avoided that part of the wire strands is separated during stripping.

Many electricians perform the stripping of using a side cutter or knife which requires great care and experience.

For removal of cable sheaths Abmantler be used.

Strippers for single conductors

Wire strippers have a round or V-shaped cutting opening, which can not be completely closed. The size of this opening

  • Variable over a set screw or
  • There are several openings with fixed sizes.

Automatic Wire Strippers conform to the outside diameter of the pipe; the insulating thickness can be set on them. By squeezing the handles, the cutting and removing operations are sequentially carried out automatically. Can therefore be operated rapidly and without the risk of damaging of the conductor.

Strippers with blade cassette

These automatic pliers have several narrow, inserted into a cassette knives per jaw. The individual blades conform to the shape of the conductor insulation. With these pliers all adjacent individual conductors can be stripped at the same time eg in ribbon cables. This species also has a setting for the insulating thickness.

Abmantler

See also stripping.

Abmantler for plastic sheathing of cables are available in two forms:

  • Handles with inner diameters similar to a wire stripper: These are slid over the cable, coiled and then peeled off together with the shell portion. They are also called Dosenabmantler.
  • Tools that have only a single small, rotatably mounted knife in a guide: these are radially placed on the cable, turned and removed, then cut the skirt portion can be removed.

The latter embodiment may also be used to produce a longitudinal section of the sheath after the peripheral section. In this case, the diameter of itself rotates in longitudinal direction. Such longitudinal sections are useful in large sheath and lengths and in bad sliding coat (for example, coaxial cables ).

There are also utility knives, which are suitable for stripping and for stripping.

It used to be used for dismantling and stripping cable cutter - simple and sturdy knife that, compared with today's tools, a little more skill and experience required.

Enamelled copper wires

Enamelled copper wire is partially solderable, however this gives rise harmful vapors. Alternatively, a mechanical stripping is necessary. There are tools in the form of tweezers, which are provided with two mutually facing cutting edges. This enameled copper wires can be stripped by the tool is repeatedly closed and withdrawn at various angles to the wire.

Thermal Wire Strippers

Thermally -working strippers have in place the knife two V-shaped, interlocking wire loops which are heated by current flow. With such pliers only thermoplastic insulation can be removed; a risk of damaging the conductor does not exist. This type of stripping caused strong harmful vapors and is used only rarely or in automated production facilities.

This is related to stripping with a laser beam, which also is only used in automated production facilities.

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