"Ken Scharf" wrote in message
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Anybody remember that cold head soldering iron advertised on tv
a while back? It was supposed to come with a pair of these
neat looking wire strippers. Well today at the Miami hamfest
someone was selling just the wire strippers. I got two of the
smaller ones good for .2-3mm wire (what's that in AWG?) and
one of the larger ones good for .2-6mm wire for $20.
These really are cool wire strippers, they quickly strip
any guage wire (in the supported range) without nicking the
wire. They even appear to work on some wire wrap wire that
is usually impossible to strip except with hard to find
'no-nick' brand cutters. (though you have to be carefull to
put the wire in the right hand side of the cutters where
the opening is a bit wider.

I don't know about the ww wire where you are, but the cheap manual wrapping
tools that Radio Shack used to sell work fine for stripping here, they had
that built in hole with a sheet metal plate with an angled slot that you
just pulled the wire into then pulled the wire down. I wrapped many a board
with just that tool, I never did like the power wrapping tools I bought. I
also didn't like the manual tools that held the spools of wire that you
didn't strip since they wrapped tight enough that the posts cut thru the
insulation.

Of course this is a hobbyist view, if I had to wrap dozens of boards a day
instead of one every couple of months I'm sure I would have a differenet
opinion of wrappers.
thanks, John.
KC5DWD