"Archimedes' Lever" wrote in message
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Not the ones at one of the places I used to work -- it left a stub of ~1/8"
sticking out of the tie wrap.
Perhaps they were mis-adjusted or something...
Or some cheap Chinese crap.

That certainly could have been.

I've noticed that cheap-Chinest-crap automatic wire strippers (where you
insert the wire, squeeze, a bar or similar comes down to cable the wire in
place and then some blades strip off the insulation) tend to work quite poorly
compared to the really good ones.