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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.

    408 Products showing for Wire Strippers

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    WIREFOX-D CX-1
    Phoenix Contact
    Round
    4 → 16mm²
    4.0mm
    16.0mm
    191 mm
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    WIREFOX 16
    Ideal Industries
    Flat
    18 → 10AWG
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    10AWG
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    45-235
    Schneider Electric
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    0.08 → 6mm²
    0.08 mm²
    6 mm²
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    Yes
    Green Premium
    AT1PA7
    Teng Tools
    Wire Cutting and Crimping Functions
    0.2 → 8.0mm²
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    CK
    PVC, Teflon
    0.25 → 0.80mm
    0.25mm
    0.8mm
    100 mm
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    Weidmüller
    Coaxial Cable, Data Cable, Round Cable
    3.2 → 17mm
    2.5mm
    8mm
    116 mm
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    CK
    Round
    Ø 0.3 → 5mm
    0.3mm
    5mm
    160 mm
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    T3754
    Jokari
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    0.12 → 0.4mm
    0.12mm
    0.4mm
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    PWS-PLUS
    Jokari
    PVC Wire
    8 → 28mm
    4mm
    6mm
    132 mm
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    102
    Phoenix Contact
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    4 → 16mm²
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    5AWG
    191 mm
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    WIREFOX
    Phoenix Contact
    Mains
    18mm
    0.02in
    18mm
    191 mm
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    Phoenix Contact
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    0.2 → 10mm²
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    8AWG
    190 mm
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    WIREFOX
    Phoenix Contact
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    0.1 → 4mm²
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    12AWG
    191 mm
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    WIREFOX
    Molex
    Conduit Wire, Equipment Wire, Flat Phone, Flex Power
    34 → 8AWG
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    123 mm
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    207129
    Weidmüller
    Coaxial
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    Miller
    Drop Wire
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    139.7 mm
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    Phoenix Contact
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    WIREFOX-D SR 6
    Weidmüller
    Coaxial
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    Jokari
    Round
    6 → 16mm²
    6.0mm
    16.0mm
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