Great DIY Wire stripper

so a while ago in order to feed my hobbies I just start decided to start scrapping copper and aluminum copper wire mostly and I got sick of using a razor blade to strip the wire and what I strip usually is romex wire as you can see here house wire solid and I saw some videos on YouTube wire stripping machines some different ones which the easiest ones were too and the most efficient ones were used for stripping romex which you know worked out nicely because of the fact that that's what I usually strip so what I have here there was some different designs on YouTube some of them were a bit more difficult there was one with rollers from a treadmill and a motor and one with some car parts and pulleys and stuff and I didn't have access or I didn't really want to take the time to find those things if there was a better way to do it and here's my I think better way what I have here and these piece parts are easy to find what I have here is this top one is the core from a microwave motor the do you've ever taken apart of microwave there's a big fan up top double sided fan and this is the core from that and what's nice about these is these motor course is that they have bearings already put on them I can't remember what it's called when they stick them on they have little grooves on the inside rod and then these bearings are pressure fitted onto there and then the bottom one here is from I think a dishwasher core from the motor of a dishwasher and that one also has bearings which down there you can see those bearings are a bit bigger and since that one was wider I had to add some bearings to this top one just to the sides all right and sorry for all the sniffling it's spring and I have pretty bad allergies but so what I did here was I cut out these two pieces of wood first and drilled holes the size of bearings right there the size of the bearings and made sure that there is also a center hole just the size of this to the side of the bearing holes justgo are only as deep as one of the bearings so there's three here the third one is in the wood and then the last hole the middle hole goes all the way through the size of the rod that already goes to the center of the core now the bottom one did the same thing but made a bit of a slot as you can see so that it can it had to be able to move up and down for different sizes I have you I've yet to find or make a way for this to be adjusted really currently the gap right there wasn't quite tight enough to pinch the romex wire and split it so what I did was I just got some wire and I shoved it let's see if you can see I shoved it right underneath the bearing right there in order to just kind of you know lift this up and make that gap a bit smaller and I did that on both sides and that actually works pretty well and it's at a size where generally the romex why I believe it's I want to say standard is 12 gauge but I get you know I get wire sizes that vary so the thinner stuff will kind of split through this and then the thicker stuff is a really tight fit so it'll be nice once I get a way to adjust this one way I was thinking is having hose clamps the bigger ones and making this top one able to move or even just mmm well no just having this top one able to move instead and putting the hose clamps on these bearings because this middle part has to be able to spin but the bearing or what stays still so having hose clamps on these two bearings strapped down to the board this is on and then that way I would be able to tighten that just with a screwdriver and adjust it for different gauge wires and then one problem I was having was that the wire was slipping from side to side since these cores aren't that wide and the way I fixed that this is just PVC that I heated up with a heat gun and cut and drilled a hole in on both sides as you can see and that acts as a guide to kind of keep the wire in the middle of these cores when it goes through to split it and then this is just that top one and I'll go ahead and show you real quick one problem I have like I said get this started it's a tight fit as I said yeah so when you pull the trigger for the drill and it starts going you kind of have to use your hand and push that in to get it first pinched then you can pull the drill and it'll go there and you kind of have to line that up to get it so that it'll go through that hole and then you can just let it run and as you can see here this is a thinner wire smaller gauge so it doesn't quite split it all the way but generally with the links I'm working at it doesn't need to split all the way I can just grab the end of that right there and pull it through and since it's been pinched it's really easy it's really easy to just pull that through sometimes if that end isn't big enough for me to grab I'll grab my pliers right there to help me pull it through but also if it is too long to pull through it is split there enough that if you grabbed it and pull them part it would split all the way down since it's already you can see maybe let's see here maybe over there how its kind of split all the way you know like it's it'll be where is it it'll be it's kinda hard to see in the video but there's a score all the way through where it's been pinched so it's weaker there in that way because of that it'll split if you do attempt to pull them apart so you can just pull this through alright and here I've put in some slightly thicker gauge wire this is just a short piece and I'll show you guys what happens as you can see sometimes with this thicker stuff I do have to pull it through or don't have to but just to kind of assist it you can see with that one this is probably the gap right there is probably slightly too small to be doing this thick like ideally but it works pretty dang well this is much nicer to strip just cuz see you see there it'll just come right off so yeah once I get around to coming up with an idea to make this a more adjustable or if you guys have an idea let me know in the comments but this is what I have so far and it works pretty well and I thought maybe it would help maybe some other hobbyist feed their hobbies personally I enjoy building stuff and taking stuff apart so scrapping wire you know as a decent way for me to make money and pay for my different creations and stuff like that yeah let me know if you have any ideas for adjusting that and I hope that this video was helpful for you guys

Channel: Andrew Lignell

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Length: 8min 56sec (536 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 01 2018