Review on 🔌 StripMeister Original Drill Powered Automatic Wire Stripper - Strips Scrap Copper Wire from #18 to 250MCM, including Romex - Ultra Long Lasting Blade from Heat Treated Tool Steel by Jim Kriegshauser

I'm an electrician who specializes in remodeling projects so I always pull out the old wire and recycle it. I've been thinking about buying a wire stripper for a long time, but I always thought I needed a big and expensive one. Eventually I broke down and thought I'd try one of these smaller ones and as others have said why didn't I get one of these years ago?! It works well and strips wires much faster than I could with a utility knife and much more safely at it. The device is small, but this is a plus, not a minus. It's well built, with a well-machined solid aluminum frame and moving parts that fit snugly but move easily. I screwed mine onto a small piece of wood big enough to hold it and a drill bit to run it. I can then mount the device on a desktop or stand and just remove the build when I'm done with it. I will say it can be a bit finicky. While the feed angle is not overly critical, it does affect how well the material feeds through and, if not set correctly, can cause the wire to slip toward the blade. Also, stripping smaller stranded wires (in the #14-12 range so far, haven't tried the others yet) requires a lot more precision with a cutting wheel, or you'll end up with lots of copper shavings when the wheel cuts. wires and insulation. However, fine-tuning does not take much time, and after tweaking everything works very well. Any other reviewers who claim they have an issue with the wire not staying under the blade are simply ignoring their setup. wires in just a few days. There are a few things this little stripper struggles with, like stripping the outer jacket of round stranded wire (aka 3-wire plus ground) wire, but again, with a little tweaking, it took less than a minute to install your shoot 100+ foot 12/3 that was probably made in the 70's or 80's that has a much thicker shell and a lot more paper stuffing inside so it was quite a challenge. Once the internal wires were separated, I could just run one wire at a time, and within a few minutes I was left with a few pounds of bare copper left in the pile. All in all, I'm done with what took me weeks in a few days, and I'm making more money per pound for stripped wire than if I hadn't stripped it, so this little device has pretty much paid for itself in the in a jiffy. If you're stripping quite a bit of wire but don't want to make money doing it (you'll need a bigger machine for that), this little device will definitely help.