Yes, I agree for a production quantity it needs something better than
slaves. Like these commercial products:

http://www.schleuniger.us/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-68/126_read-6916/page-4/
http://www.schleuniger.com/DesktopDefault.aspx/tabid-44/74_read-1602/page-2/

Tamas


On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Tony Smith <ajsmith@beagle.com.au> wrote:

> > > The one I made used shears to cut the wire, but sharp blades (with
> depth
> > > control) to cut the insulation.  Pliers do a poor job removing
> insulation
> > > (they tear, not cut) and blades dull too quickly cutting wire.  The
> blades
> > > didn't cut all the way around, but it didn't matter in that case.
> > >
> > >
> > I have two different cable stripper. One of them has a special blade
> system.
> > On the blades there are half holes with similar size as the wire. When
> the
> > two blades are closed it cuts the insulation all the way around, but
> because
> > of that hole the wire itself does not cut. The only problem is that there
> >
> >
> > The other stripper works way better: There is pne pair of straight blades
> > and a gripper that grips the cable by it's insulation. I just have to put
> >
> >
> > BTW: I still do not know why is this DIY cable cutter and stripper is
> faster
> > than cutting the cable manually as for prototyping I just use a
> solderable
> > winding wire so no stripping is needed. But when I need hundreds of same
> > length of cable I just put two nails into a wood with the half distance
> of
> > the desired cable length, then wind up the cable and cut one end. Then I
> use
> > the stripper I mentioned which works very fast. I was even using this
> > technique for 3 wire cable stripping all 3 wires together - this part was
> > very fast, but the crimping took much much more.
>
>
> I wouldn't make one for my own personal use, I don't need that much wire.
> The ones I made were for a company I worked for, they used about 1000-2000
> pieces of wire daily.  They only took a few hours to build (from junk) and
> paid for themselves in a couple of days.  Nobody liked 'wire duty' so they
> were happy.  I also rigged up some crimpers for foot control to save on
> hand
> cramp.  Pneumatic would have been nice.
>
> I've even had a biscuit cutter (wood, not edible) rigged up with foot
> control like that once.
>
> I use a stripper like the second one you describe, but I wouldn't if I had
> to do over 1,000 pieces per day.
>
> There's many ways to skin a cat, or a wire in this case.  Straight blades
> are easier to find (exacto, razor etc) than the special cutters.  The
> commercial one linked to before used a circular blade to cut the
> insulation,
> presumable it rotated this around the wire.  Multiple blades let you do
> coax, cutting thru the insulation, shield & foam.  Manual coax cutters work
> the same way.
>
> I've actually got a project that I need to build a wire cutter for, I
> should
> get started one of these days.
>
> Tony
>
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