Gosh, right up my ally!
Stick it in a solder pot. Tins and cleans.
The newest method is not to strip it all.
The equipment we make welds it (literally)
directly to the post.  See:
http://www.microjoin.com

GL,
Walt...

-----Original Message-----
From: Wagner Lipnharski [mailto:wagner@USTR.NET]
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 4:15 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: [OT] STRIP-X


Hi, different from what the subject can make you think, it comes in a
small 2 fl. oz.  It is not a X stripper, but some kind of jelly (extreme
toxic) that strips the enamel from magnetic wires for soldering
purposes.  I produce this device that use few pieces of magnetic wires
(28 or 30 AWG gage), so it is quite difficult to decape it for
soldering.  I found this STRIP-X from GC Electronics, it works pretty
good, in less than a minute the enamel just detach from the wire where
you apply this jelly thing.  Problem is, it smells like hell, and it is
toxic, label says it is fatal is swallowed or absorbed by the skin.
Every time I open the bottle we need to ventilate the ambient for quite
some time, and seems that the smell stick to carpet, walls, and so on...
nice huh?  Is there any other possible solution to decape the enamel
from magnetic wires without using a blade? we tried even a small flame
(torch), didn't work good.  How they do it in industrial production?
Wagner.