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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

    WAGO
    In-socket Cable
    8 → 13mm
    8mm
    13mm
    -
    -
    -
    206
    Pressmaster
    Coaxial
    2.5 → 7.6mm
    2.5mm
    7.6mm
    -
    -
    -
    -
    Phoenix Contact
    Insulated
    6 → 16mm²
    6.0mm
    16.0mm
    166 mm
    -
    -
    WIREFOX 16-1
    Jokari
    Round
    3.2 → 4.4mm
    3.2mm
    4.4mm
    -
    -
    -
    -
    Knipex
    Multicore, Single core
    0.1 → 10mm²
    0.1 mm²
    10 mm²
    160 mm
    -
    -
    11 02 160
    TE Connectivity
    -
    2.5 → 6mm
    2.5mm
    6mm
    200 mm
    -
    -
    -
    Jokari
    Coaxial
    5 → 20mm
    5mm
    20mm
    -
    -
    -
    -
    SAM
    -
    4 → 28mm²
    4mm
    28mm
    35 mm
    -
    -
    220-6
    Weller Erem
    Fibre Optic
    0.25 → 1.02mm
    0.25mm
    1.02mm
    120 mm
    -
    -
    -
    Ideal Industries
    Solid, Stranded
    26 → 14AWG
    -
    14AWG
    -
    -
    -
    T-Stripper
    Phoenix Contact
    -
    -
    0.02 mm²
    -
    191 mm
    -
    -
    WIREFOX 10
    Weidmüller
    Flexible, Solid
    0.08 → 6mm
    0.08mm
    6mm
    -
    -
    -
    -
    Phoenix Contact
    PVC Wire
    0.08 → 6mm²
    0.08mm
    6.0mm
    205 mm
    -
    -
    -
    Phoenix Contact
    Round
    8 → 13mm²
    8mm
    13mm
    125 mm
    -
    -
    WIREFOX-D 13
    Phoenix Contact
    -
    1.5 → 6mm²
    -
    10AWG
    191 mm
    -
    -
    WIREFOX
    Phoenix Contact
    -
    -
    -
    -
    -
    -
    -
    WIREFOX-D SR 6
    CK
    Single Core
    0.18mm
    -
    0.25mm
    98 mm
    -
    -
    T3756
    Ideal Industries
    Solid
    0.75 → 6mm²
    0.75mm
    6.0mm
    -
    -
    -
    -
    SES Sterling
    -
    0.15 → 1mm
    0.15mm
    1mm
    -
    -
    -
    -
    Phoenix Contact
    Mains
    18mm
    0.02in
    18mm
    191 mm
    -
    -
    -
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