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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

    HARTING
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    97 mm
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    Knipex
    Flat cables
    0.75 → 2.5mm²
    0.75 mm²
    2.5 mm²
    175 mm
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    12 64 180
    Knipex
    Round
    Ø > 25mm
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    150 mm
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    16 40 150
    Phoenix Contact
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    WIREFOX-D CX-1
    Phoenix Contact
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    WIREFOX-D CX-3
    Phoenix Contact
    Multicore, Single Core
    0.1 → 10mm²
    0.1 mm²
    10 mm²
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    WIREFOX 10 VDE
    Knipex
    Multicore
    0 → 10mm²
    0 mm²
    10 mm²
    160 mm
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    11 06 160
    Jokari
    Multicore
    35 → 50mm
    35mm
    50mm
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    Phoenix Contact
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    WIREFOX-D CX-4
    Phoenix Contact
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    2 → 20mm
    2mm
    20mm
    363 mm
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    WF 1000
    Knipex
    Multicore, Single core
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    0.6mm
    160 mm
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    Phoenix Contact
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    0.1 mm²
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    191 mm
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    WIREFOX 4
    Jokari
    Multicore
    8 → 13mm
    8mm
    13mm
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    Knipex
    Multicore, Single core
    0.1 → 10mm²
    0.1 mm²
    10 mm²
    160 mm
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    11 06 160 T
    Knipex
    Multicore
    26 → 10AWG
    26 AWG
    10AWG
    195 mm
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    Knipex
    Coaxial cables, data cables
    RG59, 6, 7, 11
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    125 mm
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    16 60 06 SB
    Phoenix Contact
    Mains
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    120 mm
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    Bahco
    PVC Data Cable
    4.5 → 10mm
    4.5mm
    10mm
    115 mm
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    Miller
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    0.65 → 2.6mm
    0.65mm
    2.6mm
    137 mm
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    CK
    Cable
    1.5 → 2.5mm
    1.5mm
    2.5mm
    100 mm
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    T1270
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