Don't know what you bought, but the ones I bought years ago for about $30 work great. I still use them to this day and would be broken hearted if they ever came up missing. RJ ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Fowle To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] speakers are installed.
There is a heavy contraversy around here about strippers. There are "automatic" ones from cheap tool places that have blades into which you put the wire and which claim to adjust to many;sizes. Some of them have a set of grippers on each half of the two ends of the flat plier like handles. You put the wire between these sets of sharpish grippers, holding it at right angles to the length of the plier like tool. As you squeeze the handles, the two sets of grippers grab ehe wire, and one cuts the insulation. As you squeeze further, the grippers pull apart and hopefully remove just the insulation you wanted, not any strands of wire. These, and other 'automatic' strippers can pinch fingers if you leave your little prescious haptors in the wrong places, but when you're used to them, some of them work pretty well. The more plastic on them the poorer they are. Many real technicians preferr the old fashioned type that have a bolt that you move to allow the things to close just so far depending on what size of wire you are stripping. If you get these adjusted properly they do well. The kind you find in hardware stores that are a plier like tool that strips crimps, cuts, and cuts bolts are junk and are only for the coarsest type of work. If you're only stripping #14 solid wire, they might do. I most often use a sharp knife, being very carefull not to cut strands especially when stripping small stranded wire. Radio shlock probably has a variety including the fancy automatic ones like I first discribed. I've never found anything that does a consistantly good job on lots of wire sizes. My brother, who is a retired electrician, always uses a sharp knife, and he is so fast I can't even think about stripping before he has it done. Tom [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
