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    Wire Strippers

    Wire strippers are a hand-held tool also known as cable strippers which are designed to remove insulation or outer sheath from electrical wires and cables. There are various types available from stripping the cable and cutting copper and each is made with components and materials to best suit their application. You can find out more in our wire stripper tool guide.

    Why would you need wire strippers?

    Wire strippers are an essential tool for any electrician or mechanical engineer. Wire strippers create a neat and tidy cut to reveal wires, ready to be soldered or have a connector attached.

    Types of wire strippers

    • Adjustable stripper - self-adjusting stripper with the ability to crimp, strip and snip wires. Designed with precision and made to last.
    • Triple action wire stripper - Professional heavy-duty cable strippers with unique spiral-cutting facility rotary, linear or spiral cut. These tools embody unique spiral-strip selector for hard-to-strip insulations like butyl and rubber.
    • Wire stripper pliers - V-shaped stripping jaws for removing plastic insulation from single and multicore conductors. Available with VDE handles.
    • Sheath stripper - Simple rotary action cutter and stripper perfect for 2-core and 3-core mains cables and leads. Produces safe ring-of-cut for outer and inner insulation on all types of flexible cable.
    • Pistol wire stripper - Wire stripper with a self-adjusting blade, compound stripping action plus it grips and strips in on the motion.
    • Automatic wire stripper - Cuts and strips insulation from a range of wire sizes in one operation. A single squeeze of handles opens and closes the synchronised jaws and strips insulation clean.
    • Manual wire stripper - Made for regular use across various applications offers a spring-loaded self-opening handle and safety lock.
    • Steel armoured cable stripper - Ideal for slitting the corrugated copper, steel or aluminium armour layer on fibre feeder, central tube, stranded loose tube fibre optic cables and other armoured cables.

    Who would use a wire stripper?

    Wire strippers are primarily used by electricians or mechanics but are equally at home in any DIY toolbox.

    403 Products showing for Wire Strippers

    RS PRO
    Kevlar
    0.125 → 3mm
    0.125mm
    3mm
    145 mm
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    RS PRO
    Shear Cable
    0.25 - 0.81mm
    -
    0.125mm
    165 mm
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    RS PRO
    Shear Cable
    10mm
    -
    10mm
    160 mm
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    -
    -
    RS PRO
    PVC Wire
    27 → 10AWG
    0.08mm
    6mm
    203 mm
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    -
    RS PRO
    Multicore
    0.1 → 10mm²
    0.1 mm²
    10 mm²
    160 mm
    -
    -
    -
    RS PRO
    Solid
    0.8 → 2.6mm
    0.8mm
    2.6mm
    155 mm
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    -
    -
    RS PRO
    Coaxial
    3 → 9mm
    3mm
    9mm
    -
    -
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    RG59
    RS PRO
    Wire Stripper
    -
    -
    0.5mm
    125 mm
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    -
    RS PRO
    Round
    0.2 → 6mm
    0.2mm
    6mm
    170 mm
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    -
    -
    RS PRO
    -
    0.13 → 6mm²
    0.13 mm²
    6mm
    205 mm
    -
    -
    -
    RS PRO
    Coaxial
    3 → 9mm
    3mm
    9mm
    -
    -
    -
    RG179
    RS PRO
    -
    8 → 28mm²
    8.0mm
    28.0mm
    140 mm
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    -
    -
    RS PRO
    Shear Cable
    0.81 - 2.59mm
    -
    2.59mm
    165 mm
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    -
    -
    RS PRO
    PVC Wire
    0.02 → 10mm²
    0.02mm
    10mm
    144 mm
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    -
    -
    RS PRO
    Round
    4 → 28mm
    4mm
    28mm
    -
    -
    -
    -
    RS PRO
    Cable Stripper
    1 - 16mm
    -
    16mm
    140 mm
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    -
    -
    RS PRO
    -
    0.25 → 0.8mm²
    0.25mm
    0.8mm
    110 mm
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    -
    -
    RS PRO
    Flexible, Mains
    Ø 0.1 → 9mm
    0.1mm
    9mm
    90 mm
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    -
    -
    RS PRO
    Wire Stripper
    -
    -
    0.6mm
    125 mm
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    -
    -
    RS PRO
    Round Cable
    6 → 16mm²
    6.0mm
    16.0mm
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