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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

    Phoenix Contact
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    167 mm
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    WIREFOX-D 40
    Jokari
    Multicore
    4 → 70mm
    4mm
    70mm
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    CK
    Single Core
    0.18mm
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    0.5mm
    98 mm
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    T3756
    Molex
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    64016
    Pressmaster
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    CK
    Cable
    8 → 28mm
    8mm
    28mm
    135 mm
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    T1280
    CK
    Cable
    0.75 → 2.5mm
    0.75mm
    2.5mm
    165 mm
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    T1260
    CK
    Single Core
    0.18mm
    -
    0.3mm
    98 mm
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    T3756
    Miller
    Drop Wire
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    139.7 mm
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    CK
    Flat, Round
    1.5 → 10 mm, 4 → 70 mm
    1.5mm
    70mm
    170 mm
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    SAM
    Sheath
    2.5mm²
    2,5 mm²
    2,5 mm²
    165 mm
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    240-R16G
    Knipex
    Round sheated cables
    6 → 29mm
    6mm
    29mm
    135 mm
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    16 30 135 SB
    CK
    -
    12 → 36mm
    12mm
    36mm
    150 mm
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    Knipex
    Multicore, Single core
    -
    1.5 mm²
    2.5 mm²
    170 mm
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    Phoenix Contact
    Polymer
    1.0 → 3.2mm
    36mm
    140 x 230 x 3mm
    310 x 340 x 77 mm
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    Knipex
    Coaxial cables, data cables, round cables and standard waterproof cables
    0,2mm², 0,3mm², 0,8mm², 1,5mm², 2,5mm², 4,0mm² / 4,5 → 7,5mm
    0.2 mm²
    -
    135 mm
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    16 95 02 SB
    Tavismanor
    Coaxial
    3 → 9mm
    3mm
    9mm
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    RG58
    CK
    Cable
    0.2 → 6mm
    0.2mm
    6mm
    160 mm
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    T1261
    Jokari
    Standard
    7.5 → 9.5mm
    7.5mm
    9.5mm
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    Ideal Industries
    Coaxial
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    0.1mm
    3.175mm
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