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Default Homemade industrial wire stripper

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Ignoramus31473 wrote:

I would like to make a wire stripper. And by this, I do not mean those
"look, mommy, I made a wire stripper from a knife blade and toy car
wheels".

I mean a powered industrial machine that is

a) Safe in use
b) Can strip significant amount of wire per hour
c) Strips cables up to 1 inch thick.

I can find a gear motor and other equipment without problems, I just
wanted to see if anyone was aware of similar projects that worked out
well.

i


A colleague of mime had a home made unit built on a gearhead motor.
It had a spring loaded pipe cutter wheel. I used it for several thousand
feet of cable. For light duty it was satisfactory. The drive wheel
needed improvement. I saw a commercially made unit that had four pipe
cutter wheels at 90 degs. The key seems to be the drive wheel.

CP