On 18 Jan 2013 00:44:10 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
wrote:

On 2013-01-17, wrote:
On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 5:58:02 PM UTC-5, Steve B wrote:
"Ignoramus31473" wrote in message

...

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".

[ ... ]

They also got a premium price for the copper, as the buyers were sure they

were going to get all wire with no trash. IIRC, the buyers were making

"kearnies". (?)

If you cut then strip, the stripping maybe could be done by pressing
the wire out of the insulation. A die-per-size would be a pain, though.

Depends on the wire. Old telephone "drop" cable (that which
went from the pole to the side of the house) had the rubber rather
firmly bonded to the conductors. Stripping it involved whittling away
rubber until you got close, then scraping to get to the conductor. (I
used to have some from tree damage in New Hampshire back in the very
early 1960s. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.
I pulled most of the knob and tube rubber insulated (mid '40s) wire
when I re-wired in'78. To strip it, I sliced one side off the anchored
one end in the vise and spun the other end with a drill motor. The
heat generated plus the twisting action cleaned the well adhered
rubber perfectly from the tinned copper conducter.
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Gerry :-)}
London,Canada