Wagner,

I too have similar problems stripping fine wire (0.032 to 0.055 mm diameter)
I normally use a hot soldering iron and tin the wire. This works eventually,
but
is time consuming and often the wire breaks. I worked in a lab in france
for a while. There they had some stuff which sounds like your Strip-X. There
was no label on the can and no one knew where it came from.
It worked really well though. I used it in a proper fume hood, so the smell
was
not an issue. Dou you have a web address for the company?

Thanks

Joe

----- Original Message -----
From: Wagner Lipnharski <wagner@USTR.NET>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 12:14 AM
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.
>