Crimping and Stripping Tool

Can you strip it with your finger nail? Or ask a telephone engineer if he has anything!

It has crossed my mind to ask a phone engineer. the method we've been asked to employ is to use a slightly blunt scalple in order not to cut into the next wire or finger. this is rather a hit and miss affair in both instances.

Ideal offers different types of "cutters" for their strippers. One style is the usual knife edge. Another has rounded edges that won't cut any wire but squeeze the insulation until it breaks. Of course if you try to strip too large of a wire in a smaller cutter, it will squeeze the conductor until it breaks. If you can't find any references to those styles, call them up.

Another source of crimpers is AMP, Inc. They make connectors and also make very, very good crimpers. Rather expensive but industrial quality. I always said "If you want to see a thousand dollar crimp, use an AMP thousand dollar crimper." Maybe a bit of overkill but read below.

Most of te phone service people that I have seen in the past few years carry a small pair of scissors with which to cut and strip wires. Then they have good crimpers designed for the crimps they use.

We use something like these here to do our stripping of fine gauge wire:

http://www.goodmart.com/products/86195.htm

The tool you need for crimping is going to be determined by the terminal you are crimping onto the wire.

Tom

Check out Ideal tools. Their whole business is cutting, stripping and crimping of wire.

Hi Jaguar,

do you have an E-mail address for ideal tools? i can only find an austrailian company that deals in something totally different from cutting,stripping etc.

MAH,

Since you seem to be in Ireland, here's a supply company there that carries at least some Ideal products. If you can't find what you need on their site, maybe give them a call.

http://www.radionics.ie

The link I gave in my earlier post was for Ideal strippers at a U.S. supplier. Even with shipping, it may be cheaper to order from the U.S. Here's a link to Ideal Industries, the manufacturer.

http://www.idealindustries.co.uk/index.cfm?pid=20&op=slc&pk=192

Tom

yeah,you're probably right advising to have a look in the states. we do actually deal quite a lot with radionics as they provide an excellent service.

thanks for the advice.

Mah.

Another possibility is to touch the end of the wire with a soldering iron wetted with solder, add some flux, and burn the insulation off the end.

These instruments are available in any electrical and hardware stores as chinese tools have flooded market . 0.25 mm is regular gauge , you opt for crimping tool used for Ethernet cabling

When we had to cheap out because purchasing wouldn't spring for a $130 hand stripper when they found one for $20, every month or so we were requisitioning a new one, not to mention the damaged wires. Our wires were cut to length for production purposes. A bad strip or crimp was costly.

If it's magnetic wire you're stripping, try these guys...

www.eraser.com

Excellent products. Who would think that a nasty little wire wheel could work so well on magnet wire.

You did not mention the type of insulation you are trying to strip(teflon, pvc, glass cloth, etc.) or if the wire is stranded or solid. It can make a big difference.

High reliability guidelines would never let you mechanically strip any wire as small as .25mm (30AWG for us yanks). That isn't to say that you can't, but that it is very difficult to do without ductile stretching, nicking, or otherwise creating a point of weakness which wasn't there to begin with.

TechniTool typically handles the networking strippers, some of which advertise doing sizes down to 30AWG www.techni-tool.com like the one below.

Reminds me of what I used to strip Kevlar jacketed fiber-optic cable.

You need to help me to help you.

1. Give full wire specs:
2. Stranded or solid conductor?
3. Conductor material and plating if there is one.
4. Insulation type
5. Application, i.e military,commercial, volume of strips/crimps etc.
6. Is being crimped to what?
7. Is OD given is for the conductor only, or is it the total OD?
8. If magnet wire, specify type of enamel

There are several good manufacturers, each one with his special capabilities.

If you want a serious answer, make a serious question.

Wangito.

...you will also need to say which kind of device you are trying to crimp ( a terminal lug, a round pin, a square pin etc.) I would assume you mean a round pin, but we all know where assumptions lead.