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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 without damaging the core wire. 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.

    RS have a great range of wire strippers or cable strippers including wire stripping pliers and other wire stripping tools from leading brands to meet all yourrequirements.

    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.

    425 Products showing for Wire Strippers

    NWS
    Multicore, Sigle Core
    0.2 → 6mm²
    0.2 mm²
    6 mm²
    180 mm
    -
    -
    N704
    Expert by Facom
    Crimping Pre-Insulated Or Bare Terminals
    0.5 - 6mm²
    0.2mm
    6mm
    216 mm
    -
    -
    -
    Bahco
    Wire
    0.2 → 6mm²
    0.511mm
    2.588mm
    170 mm
    -
    -
    A
    CK
    Round
    6 → 28mm
    6.0mm
    -
    85 mm
    -
    -
    -
    Knipex
    Multicore, Single Core
    0.1 → 10mm²
    -
    5mm
    160 mm
    -
    -
    -
    CK
    PVC, Teflon
    0.2mm
    0.2mm
    0.2mm
    98 mm
    -
    -
    T3756
    Weidmüller
    STP Data Cables, UTP
    18 → 11AWG
    0.5mm
    12.5mm
    97 mm
    -
    -
    -
    Molex
    Conduit Wire, Equipment Wire, Flat Phone, Flex Power
    34 → 8AWG
    -
    -
    123 mm
    -
    -
    207129
    Knipex
    Round sheated cables
    6 → 29mm
    6mm
    29mm
    135 mm
    -
    -
    16 30 135 SB
    Phoenix Contact
    -
    4 → 16mm²
    -
    5AWG
    191 mm
    -
    -
    WIREFOX
    Jokari
    Round
    8 → 28mm
    8mm
    28mm
    170 mm
    -
    -
    -
    Phoenix Contact
    -
    -
    0.02 mm²
    -
    191 mm
    -
    -
    WIREFOX 10
    Ideal Industries
    Solid, Stranded
    0.5 → 4mm²
    -
    -
    -
    -
    -
    Reflex
    Knipex
    Multicore, Single core
    8 → 28mm
    8mm
    28mm
    130 mm
    -
    -
    -
    Facom
    Multicore
    Ø 1 → 3mm
    1mm
    3mm
    150 mm
    -
    -
    163
    Phoenix Contact
    -
    -
    -
    -
    -
    -
    -
    WIREFOX-MP VDE
    Knipex
    Multicore
    0 → 10mm²
    0 mm²
    10 mm²
    160 mm
    -
    -
    11 06 160
    Phoenix Contact
    -
    -
    -
    -
    167 mm
    -
    -
    WIREFOX-D 40
    Jokari
    Single Core
    6 → 18mm
    6mm
    18mm
    -
    -
    -
    20100
    CK
    -
    12 → 36mm
    12mm
    36mm
    150 mm
    -
    -
    -
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