Electric Wire End Stripper

[Kmpkt]

Hey Guys,

I wonder if anyone here can point me towards a wire stripping machine that will cleanly take both the silicone insulation as well as nylon sleeving off of an 18 AWG wire. Thinking it would be really nice to be able to sleeve whole cables, chop to length and then cleanly strip them after so that everything lines up perfectly. I presume this is what professional sleevers like Cablemod and Beyond Customs do?

 

[TheDreamingMonk]

I've got several manual strippers and auto strippers and honestly prefer the manual ones. I wire up electric devices as part of my job every day and have no problem cutting, stripping, crimping/terminating hundreds ( sometimes into the thousands depending on the job ) of wires a day.

Now, if I'm understanding you. You want to sleeve before cutting / stripping. That would be a bit of a chore. It's possible, but you would end up needing to do one of two things to ensure you don't loose your sleeving when you cut the wire to size. You'd either have to glue it, or use a hot knife / stripper that will melt the sleeving into place while you cut it. Then once again when you strip them. Quite frankly, I don't think it would be worth it.

 

[Kmpkt]

The basic idea is to have a spool of pre-sleeved cables bound together in an array. Depending on the length required, I would like to be able to cut it to length and the cleanly prep the end of each cable for crimping. What would be ideal would be something like a pencil sharpener that would leave a clean end on both the cable and sleeve.

 

[iFreilicht]

What would be ideal would be something like a pencil sharpener that would leave a clean end on both the cable and sleeve.

That sounds so freaking cool, and for regular wires, IT ACTUALLY EXISTS! I'm not sure how they implemented it, but I think sleeving would add an additional bit of complexity. Best to ask them if you can actually justify spending this much money on a machine for such a simple task.

 

[jeshikat]

That's more for industrial/recycling use. This would be more appropriate: http://www.ebay.com/itm/110V-Automa...ing-Peeling-Machine-0-1-4-5-mm2-/231980860694

I'm pretty sure this is the same machine Mainframe Customs uses: http://www.imgrum.org/media/990155846518731671_1644055411

 

[Kmpkt]

That is exactly what I was looking for. My question would be if the mechanism that takes the insulation off would be able to cleanly peel the sleeving off of it as well. It would certainly make sense for high volume operation that this would be the case as sleeving each individual cable would be an insane amount of work while doing crimping only would be vastly more tolerable. Any idea if they use an automated crimper as well?

Edit: Can anyone tell if that is pre-sleeved cable they're processing there? I think it might be.

 

[jeshikat]

Not sure on sleeving, but there are automatic crimpers: http://www.molex.com/molex/products/group?key=application_tooling&channel=products

And I've heard that Molex views hand crimping tools as a necessary evil due to their inconsistency compared to the automated machines and wouldn't sell them if they didn't have to.

 

[Josh | NFC]

Not sure on sleeving, but there are automatic crimpers: http://www.molex.com/molex/products/group?key=application_tooling&channel=products

And I've heard that Molex views hand crimping tools as a necessary evil due to their inconsistency compared to the automated machines and wouldn't sell them if they didn't have to.

knowing how much their manual hand strippers cost I shudder to think what the semi-auto machine costs...let alone the fully auto...

 

[jfwextreme1]

Kmpkt, These guys mainly sell machines for recycling copper wire. www.copper-wire-stripper.com If you contact them directly they can also can get machines at whole sale pricing for wire process stripping which will do 18 GA no problem and also cut to length and strip both the nylon and silicone insulation.