Stripping cloth wire

[Andy40]

Look I'm no sparky but I thought I'd share this.

I don't like pushing back the cloth wire, especially when building amps.

So I strip the cloth insulation by twiddling the wire around in the B end of my $4 Jaycar RG6 cable stripper. Takes a couple of secs

You just need to be careful not to damage the wire, which you need to do anyway.

4 bucks...saves time...neat as.

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[McCreed]

I prefer catting back the cloth too Andy. To me it just looks neater and if you just push it back, inevitably it slides back where it was (usually whilst you're trying to solder!)

I may have to try your method as my regular strippers (and they're good ones) don't cut it very cleanly and I end up tidying it up with my precision side-cutters. It works, but it's just extra fiddly work I'd rather not do.
For 5 bucks at Jaycar it's worth a try.

[jugglindan]

what is it about pushing back the cloth that you don't like? Is it the tendency to slide back down while you are in the middle of soldering? Or something else? The last time I used that vintage solid core wire was when I replaced the electrics in my G&L 7 years ago. I can't remember if I stripped or pushed-back.

but then I can't remember what I ate for breakfast yesterday, so it's not surprising

[McCreed]

what is it about pushing back the cloth that you don't like? Is it the tendency to slide back down while you are in the middle of soldering? Or something else?

My answer:

To me it just looks neater and if you just push it back, inevitably it slides back where it was (usually whilst you're trying to solder!)

[jugglindan]

My answer:

Looking at the timestamps, I was typing my reply at the same time as you so I didn't see it until after posting.

[Andy40]

Twas funny. Sorry mccreed you are right 5 bucks. When I build my first 5e3 I used a safety blade to strip each end....I nearly died, but it gave me a lot of time to contemplate the circuit and nothing was rushed so fortunately, I didn't die.

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[DrNomis_44]

I recently bought this wire-stripper from my local Jaycar store, it's one of the best ones I've bought so far, makes stripping wires a real breeze.

[Andy40]

Looks good

how does it go with cloth covered wire doc?

[DrNomis_44]

Looks good

how does it go with cloth covered wire doc?

Haven't tried it with cloth wire but I assume that it should work, I might have some cloth wire that I can try somewhere, stripping plastic-coated wire is a real breeze though, you can strip more than one wire at a time with it.


It also has a wire-cutter, plus some crimp-connector jaws on it as well, and a wire-size setting so you can strip various sized wires, you only have to squeeze the black handles together to strip the wire, so it's pretty quick and efficient, and the actual wire-stripping mechanism is designed in such a way that the inner wire-strands don't accidentally get nicked by the blade that cuts the insulation, once the insulation is stripped-off the wire, there's about 5mm or so of the wire-strands exposed.