Cable Stripping

[techraptorx]

Not entirely bright but you are very hard worker.You will go far in life with just ur gutso...

[6095jimmy]

Everyone thinks scrap metal guys are thieves fuck off allreafy the guys smarter than you:) P.E.A.C.E 2012 GOOD JOB BRO GOOD LUCK IN THE FUTURE.

[Aussie50]

@6095jimmy thanks mate. what was really going on here was I was testing a early prototype stripper (never used it again) that I made for my local scrap yard. they gave me 4 such rolls of coated wire (some with melted insulation and blackened copper cores) to test the medium gauge stripper head with

it struggled with the melted/kinked stuff and broke the blade so I went with a different design and made it into one motorized unit

[PlebScrubber]

@6095jimmy scrap metal guys are thieves, AND they are smarter than us...

thats why they make money from things we saw no value in and threw away

cabling stripping solutions are needed for the average tradesman, so at least its progressing

[Travisthehead]

@PlebScrubber Im a scrapper, and most of us started off as theives but then went legit, I own a smal yard now.

[Bassmaster963]

Scap Copper my ASS!!!!... That might be 500' of wire all on one spool, people like you make me sick!

[Aussie50]

@Bassmaster963 I still find it hillarious that people think its stolen :D, if only they spent some time around a scrap yard and saw how many thousands of feet of old industrial cable that gets scrapped when a factory it re-fitted

get a life.

[TheDirtyFord]

@Bassmaster963 REALLY?? wow i must make you sick then. I bought from a retired electrician, a roll of 6/3 teck last week. 300' from 1988. couldn't be used as it was too old. so that makes a opportunist a thief? cause i striped it and got payed?

[sunshine25801]

how much did u make for that copper?

[cuginetycoon]

Please tell me what you used to cut the copper I am trying to make one

[sdeew100]

what is the mechanism thats actually cutting the wire.. and how do you adjust it for the different gauges

[1990suzuki]

and where in the hell are you getting the huge ass spools of wire or did you buy them just to strip them lol?

[Aussie50]

@1990suzuki I was developing a cable stripper for the local scrap they gave me the cable to test it with and gave me a percentage of the profit as a bonus

[Yogamartial]

@1990suzuki I was thinking the same.

[1990suzuki]

would be easier if you had it hooked up to a drill that was connected to a spindle or something to pull the copper and you just grab the insulation

[Aussie50]

@1990suzuki I did build a motorized one after this prototype

[sandtoarabs]

@Aussie50 Have a look at the real thing on Wrights Machinery Ltd website or youtube link . That's how it's done!

[HalfFlask]

dude, you need a second wheel for the coating.

even a third for the wire.

[bashfaggots]

what exactly did you have to do to get all that copper?

[pantherxx010]

copper THEIF!!!!! ..... j/k!

[Aussie50]

@pantherxx010 lol the cops would have a good mug shot of me if that was the case ;)

[domokid]

Hl2 music ?!?! I love you dude!

[tubehubing]

This is how us Aussies Roll!!! don't miss with this cunt..

[bending1991]

Couldn't you make some kind of a guide to take the cut off insulation off the wire for you. Then you could make the system completely automated.

[usaruss]

I like that. I've thought of several ways to make one. Haven't had time lately to work on it. I have a lot of NM cable, not really worth stripping unless it can be done very fast.

[dragon2309]

this is music from half-life??? epic

[Aussie50]

@dragon2309 yeh this is HL2 - Abandoned in Place

[broham776]

how much are you getting for steel per ton down under? .. and have u noticed a time of year that the price always goes higher? .. i noticed in chicago from the end of december to the middle of march the price is always at it's highest for the year

[gfinseth]

With a couple of powered take-up reels, you could automate that and do the whole spool in a few minutes. Even a manual take-up reel with a handle would speed things up a lot. The hard part is already built-- nice work on the stripper.

[Aussie50]

@gfinseth I've built a few different systems since this one and you are right on with the powered spool idea.

the mkII ysed powered take up and the MkIII had powered rollers in the stripper itself. I don't have a vid since the design is somewhat unique and I want to protect it for now.

[SmokeTatum]

add some insulation separating pin at end so you will have to pull only or add a motor an spule so you need only to attach wire and turn it on :), great work btw

[MrLeonard55]

You could use a spring as a tensioner on the rim so the cable dosen't come off the side of the rim when you pull on the wire.

[Aussie50]

@MrLeonard55 yeah, this design isn't used anymore but I ended up nipping the Nyloc nut up a bit more to act as a friction clutch.

[MrLeonard55]

@Aussie50  Cool

[lucanido]

coool device,but why dont you put another rim to recover the plastic ? it can take the power of the first one by a belt...

[Aussie50]

@lucanido thats a good idea!, I am building a powered one soon tho, that one may seaprate the plastic via a curved hook just past the blade insert.

[mizzoumail]

Nice Job billy bob..........Hey is that a double door out house you have there?

[Aussie50]

@mizzoumail lol nah, thats a tool shed with a sheet of plywood leaning against it.

[MrLeonard55]

Where do you get all of the wire?

[Aussie50]

@MrLeonard55 a friend is a linesman/industrial electrical engineer, we went halves in the profit :D

[bottomlands]

@MrLeonard55 From the length of those "scraps" , they stole it. No one has 200' pieces of "scrap"

[Aussie50]

@bottomlands what makes assume its stolen? and that I would video it and post it on the net if it were?

I work for a scrap yard and the cable came out of a old factory installation during a post-fire refit. the yard gave it to me to trial a cable stripper I was building for them.

[davemos72]

@bottomlands I get them all the time.... well pumps have 500' +

My last load I got 900 nine hundred feet of copper wire.  You must suck at what you do.

[Aussie50]

@davemos72 yep, he's never been into a scrap yard before ;). the piles of cable that Sims have are awesome!

[broham776]

slick shit bro .. i was thinking about buying a machine but you got me thinking twice now!

[psyfertech]

nice device u got there, you should put a bar in front of it between the wire and the insulation so that way u dont have to keep stopping and pulling it apart

[betolabs]

that machine is the chamuco

i'm gonna take your design, i have a lot of meters to strip from a electric project in our plant, saludos

[Aussie50]

glad you like it!, if you could put a variable speed DC motor on the pulley and feed out spool it would make it a lot quicker!

[betolabs]

thank you, but i only need to do a simple device, there are 300 meters of cable 3/0, can you tell me what type the material or tool is the part that split the pvc?

[Aussie50]

fair enough!,

The tool holder is a solid block of steel thats been slotted to hold a disposable knife blade. and can be slid up and down depending on size of the cable and insulation thickness

Look for my video "Cable Stripper Mk1" in the related column.

[betolabs]

hoo i watched it, thank you for the information, i won't have to think hard, i only need to find pieces to begin making "la peladora"

greetings from tepic

[twiztid83222]

I scrap too and you know if you put a little extension peice after the stripper that would seperate the plastic from the metal you could just pull the metal without stripping the plastic off by hand....

[keidall]

what are the best places to find this wire for free? any tips to gettn some?

[douro20]

Have you ever thought of auto-feed?

[Aussie50]

I spent a bit of time on an auto-feed design but without more precise metalworking machines I couldn't come up with a design that didn't jam or destroy the blade. I like the commercial ones though, very solid machines.

I've only used this cable stripper twice since I did that vid 12 months ago, its hard t come by good scrap cable.

[pivotboy63]

@Aussie50 good scrap cable? you kinda contridickted (ya i know i spelled that wrong) yourself there haha

[Aussie50]

@pivotboy63 lol yeah, I keep the 'good' stuff for projects, this lot was well used and the copper conductors in much of it had gone black!

[m3sca1]

a tad more fiddly than burning it off-handy tool-liked the Half Life2 music too.

[Aussie50]

it is, but burnt copper is worth less than clean bright too so it balances out, not alot less but enough to add up when you have 80kg or so

[douro20]

Yeah, and too much copper in the air interferes with radar...

[Aussie50]

would a small amount really do that?

[douro20]

Don't know how much...but you can get into trouble for it.

[m3sca1]

you could always pickle clean it in some vinegar and oxalic acid after burning ;-)

although i should not encourage you to burn plastic-just thought i would add my 2 cents worth

[Aussie50]

thats an idea :D, bit too much effort for scrap though.

I only burn the electrical tape off old TV/Monitor degaussing coils simply because its a pain to strip.

[mattyvt93]

What a great handy device to have around! Works great

[Aussie50]

only hangup was the bare wire caught the retainer groove as I was trying to pull it off at the end, now I use the rubber rim liner that came out of the tyre. and slide the whole lot off.

the liner simply pulls out of the bundle after.

[mattyvt93]

Nice!, makes it easier in the end.

[V8Jagnut]

it works good.