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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
    Drop Wire
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    10B, 11, 12, CAD55
    RS PRO
    Wre Stripper
    -
    -
    0.125mm
    145 mm
    -
    -
    -
    RS PRO
    Fibre Optic
    1.9 → 3mm
    1.9mm
    3mm
    99 mm
    -
    -
    MSAT® 5 Series
    RS PRO
    PVC Wire
    22 → 8AWG
    22 AWG
    8AWG
    165 mm
    -
    -
    -
    Knipex
    Multicore
    12 → 8AWG
    12 AWG
    8AWG
    195 mm
    -
    -
    -
    Knipex
    Multicore
    1.5 → 6mm²
    1.5 mm²
    6 mm²
    195 mm
    -
    -
    12 12 11
    RS PRO
    Wre Stripper
    1.6 - 3mm
    -
    3mm
    145 mm
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    -
    -
    CK
    Wire
    Ø 0.4 → 1.3mm
    0.4mm
    1.3mm
    168 mm
    -
    -
    -
    Jokari
    -
    0.2 → 6mm²
    0.2mm
    -
    -
    -
    -
    -
    RS PRO
    Multicore, Sigle Core
    0.2 → 6mm²
    0.2 mm²
    6 mm²
    170 mm
    -
    -
    -
    Knipex
    Multicore, Single core
    8 → 28mm
    8mm
    28mm
    165 mm
    -
    -
    -
    Knipex
    Flat
    -
    -
    -
    200 mm
    -
    -
    Knipex 13
    Facom
    PVC Wire
    4 → 28mm
    4mm
    28mm
    167 mm
    -
    -
    -
    Phoenix Contact
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    -
    -
    -
    -
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    WIREFOX-MP VDE
    Stanley
    Insulated
    10 → 22 mm, 7 → 8mm
    7.0mm
    22.0mm
    -
    -
    -
    -
    Wiha
    Round
    0.5 → 6mm²
    8mm
    13mm
    125 mm
    -
    -
    -
    Jokari
    PVC Wire
    8 → 28mm
    4mm
    6mm
    132 mm
    -
    -
    102
    Knipex
    Multicore, Single core
    1.5 → 2.5mm²
    1.5 mm²
    2.5 mm²
    160 mm
    -
    -
    14 26 160
    Jokari
    Multicore
    8 → 28mm
    8mm
    28mm
    -
    -
    -
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    CK
    Flat
    0.2 → 6mm²
    0.2 mm²
    6 mm²
    220 mm
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    -
    T3943
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