Sparkies/Electronics people

[barls]

Heavy Duty Wire Stripper / Cutter / Crimper with Wire Guide
better version and only twice the price.

 

[pablo_h]

I wont tell you about the time I used to drop lengths of bus bar across battery terminal when we swapped them out.....

I Realise now that it was a very stupid idea........Copper was worth $$$$.....

I remember my first wire strippers in my apprentice tool box

Pretty good set actually. Still got them. Originally supplied by Blackwoods

Yeah, these type of automatic wire strippers are handy, as long as the dies are decent. Best thing about them is they often have a bracket screwed on to get the same length strip every time. Good if your only job was endless repetitious cable stripping to 5-15mm
Most of the time a sharp cutter on pliers or side cutters are good enough though.
i once worked with a sparky that prefered using rotary coax stripper for 2.5 and 4 mm. Those grey plastic $5 things for tv cable. You have to play around with setting them up, but cheap enough to have one set for each size I guess. Because he started out on industrial and see 4mm cable a lot, I guess that's what he learnt (you aren't going to strip those cables with the above pictured stripper).
To my suprise they work good, less chance of damaging a few outside strands than pliers/side cutter after they are set up right.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Most strippers like mentioned previously are really only good upto 2mm than its side cutter/pliers up to 4-6mm....then its a knife for anything larger...and a hacksaw for really big stuff