> Tony Smith wrote:
> > I think you've been using the same dictionary that Vitaliy found
socialist
> > in.
> 
> Huh? :)
> 
> 
> > The design by Solarwind can function almost the same as the other
design,
> > it
> > can separate the insulation, but only fully remove it from one end.  You
> > need to:
> 
> (step numbers added for reference -- VM)
> 
> > 1. Feed wire
> > 2. Close pincers
> > 3. Reverse stepper to break insulation
> > 4. Open pincers
> > 5. Feed wire
> > 6. Close pincers
> > 7. Reverse stepper to break insulation
> > 8. Open pincers
> > 9. Feed wire
> > 10. Close shears to cut wire
> >
> > It's actually better the leave the insulation on anyway, especially with
> > stranded wire, it stops them getting bent.
> 
> Sounds simple enough. So in your design, after step 10 you still had
> insulation on both ends?
> 
> Stripping off the insulation, without cutting into the wire sounds like
the
> hard part. Tamas described one of his manual wire strippers:
> 
> > 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
> > the cable in it and apply, and the system automatically adjust the
blades
> > to
> > the cable. Yes, it tears the insulation, but the results is surprisingly
> > good and is way better to handle this tool than the other.
> 
> IIRC, the way the system "adusts" the blades, is it grips the cable to get
> the OD, and makes an assumption about insulation thickness. It does not
cut
> all the way through.
> 
> 
> > If you roll the insulation with
> > you finger as you remove it, it twists the strands together.
> 
> Maybe the DIY stripper should do this part, too. :)


In my version I use blades to cut thru the insulation, meaning reversing the
stepper to separate the insulation wasn't possible, so you had to remove the
ends manually.  The blades were spring loaded and pivoted, imagine something
like this.

/
     O
\

The blades moved from left to right, rotating about the wire, and then moved
back.

         \
    O
         /

On the wire it didn't cut thru at the 3 & 9 o'clock positions.  Pincers and
reversing the stepper might have worked better.  Once you have a cut in the
insulation, no matter how deep, you get a weak point.  Pulling on the
insulation will make it tear there, which is how the strippers work.  I
can't recall why I went with blades, maybe the stepper didn't have enough
grip to pull the wire back to tear the insulation.  The real reason was I
probably didn't feel like buggering about with the extra control that setup
needed.  Perhaps ROI was perceived as poor.  (Make it work - then stop.)

Tony


Oh, the socialist comment.  :)  

That came from a thread a while back where you were quite happy to accept a
hand-out from the Government, allegedly for child education but more likely
spent on something else.  I objected to this, which somehow made me a
socialist.  Lol.

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