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Your Technique for Stripping Bus Wire for Feeders?

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, August 2, 2006 5:57 PM

It's quite simple accually...

If your thinking what im thinking that is...

Try this:

First, just get a pair of wire cutters

Take your wire (marked the area you want to strip) And slightly cut through the insulation with it. Then take your strippers with each cut area and go into the middle of your marked area. That should do it for ya... (clean it up with an Xacto Knife if you wish!!!!! ) Good luck

Hope that helps

If you need pictures just contact me at raptor5@comcast.net and i'll see what I can do for ya.

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Your Technique for Stripping Bus Wire for Feeders?
Posted by donhalshanks on Wednesday, August 2, 2006 5:21 PM
I have a wire stripper which works fine on the ends of wire, to cut and take off the insulation in one motion. (Won't work on the middle of a wire)

I also have the standard stripper with holes for different sizes of wire.

I don't think I have down the right technique to take insulation off the center of bus wire, so a feeder can be soldered on to it.

How do you do this?

Thanks, Hal

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