I am always amused by fancy wire strippers. Having been an electronic tech my whole career and ran several shops. The newbies always try the fancy new wore strippers ( even I did once,). Things go fine until the fancy wire strippers get little pieces of wire and/or insulation stuck in a key place. Now I’ve got a guy spending hours trying to figure out why his wire stripper quit working. The last thing they looked for was those little pieces of material that got stuck in the strippers. Doesn’t matter how much you try to show them “it’s the fancy new wire stripper at fault ” but there’s no way that can be the problem. When they finally give up I showed them the cheapest wire strippers ever and that with a small amount of practice you can strip wires from the largest to the smallest wires used in the normal world. Cheap wire strippers are one of the best ways to strip phonocartridge wires and other tiny wires. Best reason for having them is nobody will swipe ‘em off your service bench so they are always at hand when you need them.
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