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Default Homemade industrial wire stripper

On 2018-09-06 18:28:53 +0000, said:

On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at 9:14:17 PM UTC-5, 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


I found a good machine that you can make (I am going to make one also).
This machine requires some rollers from an old excerise machine, a
motor, belt and some wood. It does not have any blades at all, and the
insulation is burnt off using only friction. This stripper can handle
any type of wire you throw at it. You can see it in action here with
instructions on how to build it;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQr6QwacJHQ

Good luck!
Rich


I used one once that was made from a gear head motor, cutter[as in a
wheel from a pipe cutter] which was spring loaded against a serrated
wheel which drove the wire through and split the insulation.
I don't think you could make one like this that would take a wide range
of wire. The whole thing was mounted on the gear head.
CP