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This one time, at Projection Camp, I stuck a xenon bulb....

Greenlee makes green handled ones and red handle ones. One of the green handle strippers have stripping holes (precision, I might add) from AWG 14 to AWG 26. The red ones handle larger wire.

I have been very fond of the Palladin automatic stripper. It is like a pliers with the stripper out the end. I have used mine for booth and organ installations for many years and they are still sharp.

The adjustment is very simple, one of three settings for the type of wire you are using. Small, medium or large. The amount of insulation it removes is easily determined by how far you insert the wire into the end of the stripper. This tool does not nick the wires regardless of the insulation on it.

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If you run across 30 gauge wire (for any wire-wrapping of pins) Radio Shack produces a cheap and good solution for about $8. It's called a "Wire Wrap Tool."

Paul,

I know that wire stippers are the "proper" way of doing things and required for certain work, but most of the time I do better with a good pair of dikes, inserting my first finger between the handles to make an open fixed V wedge, and then eyeballing where to place the wire. I've checked wire that I've stripped that way, and only rarely do I nick the conductor(s). It does sometimes stretch the insulation unless I score it.

I'd spend money on many other tools before a spending on a wire stripper. YMMV.

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I just use my thumb nail to strip that stuff.

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Contrary to popular opinion, none of the dikes I know are very tech-savvy. I wouldn't trust them to strip wires for me.

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