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 Post subject: New SWA cable stripper
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This looks pretty good. Anyone got one???
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That wouldn't be Spam by any chance :scratch:

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I dont think so.


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I have not got one and have not seen one before.

It looks just like a tube cutter.

I doubt if it will take off to be honest, especially at £90

It is marketed at increasing safety as you do not have to use a knife or a hacksaw, but how the hell do you cut the insulation on the inside of the steel wire?

I notice that in the video they didn't go that far!

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Many years ago I tried using a record pipe cutter for the self same thing it worked for about 1 strips then went blunt. Cant see that being any different.

We use swa all the time buying 1000's of glands each year and the speed my guys can strip back a swa would render that tool useless.

Now a good set of rachet cutters will save loads of time and worth every penny.


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ultimatehandyman wrote:
I have not got one and have not seen one before.

It looks just like a tube cutter.

I doubt if it will take off to be honest, especially at £90

It is marketed at increasing safety as you do not have to use a knife or a hacksaw, but how the hell do you cut the insulation on the inside of the steel wire?

I notice that in the video they didn't go that far!

I think that you would repeat the same process as is shown on the video !
It is a blade acting on a layer of insulation after all, and as for Sparky James I think the Health+Safety Exec might take another view.
I remember the time when we used to chase out walls with a lump hammer and chisel, now we have these electrical machiney things!!! :?


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marty50 wrote:
ultimatehandyman wrote:
I have not got one and have not seen one before.

It looks just like a tube cutter.

I doubt if it will take off to be honest, especially at £90

It is marketed at increasing safety as you do not have to use a knife or a hacksaw, but how the hell do you cut the insulation on the inside of the steel wire?

I notice that in the video they didn't go that far!

I think that you would repeat the same process as is shown on the video !
It is a blade acting on a layer of insulation after all, and as for Sparky James I think the Health+Safety Exec might take another view.
I remember the time when we used to chase out walls with a lump hammer and chisel, now we have these electrical machiney things!!! :?


Using a cutter like that to cut the inner insulation is not such a good idea as it would be too easy to nick the insulation of the actual conductors.

"Electrical machinery things" can make your job easier, but can also give you vibration white finger.

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I think its possible to cut into the conductor insulation with the existing method (sharp utility knife), in fact isn,t it more likely. This tool allows control of the blade depth so should be safer.
The point about the hammer drills was that things improve to make our lives easier.
Its quite hard to accept changes sometimes and some people will never embrace these changes preferring to say such things as "nothing wrong with the old method" before even trying. ::b


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marty50 wrote:
ultimatehandyman wrote:
I have not got one and have not seen one before.

It looks just like a tube cutter.

I doubt if it will take off to be honest, especially at £90

It is marketed at increasing safety as you do not have to use a knife or a hacksaw, but how the hell do you cut the insulation on the inside of the steel wire?

I notice that in the video they didn't go that far!

I think that you would repeat the same process as is shown on the video !
It is a blade acting on a layer of insulation after all, and as for Sparky James I think the Health+Safety Exec might take another view.
I remember the time when we used to chase out walls with a lump hammer and chisel, now we have these electrical machiney things!!! :?


Can you explain the above comment please :scratch:


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Ok, so you have made four posts and you claim not to be a spammer :lol:

All four posts are in this thread, so would it be unreasonable for me to suggest that this is your invention and they you cannot accept that it is over priced and clearly cannot eliminate the use of a knife?

I have seen numpties in the past, infact I went to a homebuilding show at the NEC once and a guy was demonstrating a new tool for splitting logs. It was like a 5 foot long slide hammer with a wedge shaped piece of steel on the end. It took the guy 10 minutes to split a log with it, the same log could of been split with one blow from an axe.

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marty50 wrote:
I think its possible to cut into the conductor insulation with the existing method (sharp utility knife), in fact isn,t it more likely. This tool allows control of the blade depth so should be safer.
The point about the hammer drills was that things improve to make our lives easier.
Its quite hard to accept changes sometimes and some people will never embrace these changes preferring to say such things as "nothing wrong with the old method" before even trying. ::b


Think You're right Boss. :roll:

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ultimatehandyman wrote:
would it be unreasonable for me to suggest that this is your invention


Seems a logical assumption.

From the web link:

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Birmingham-based DiMart has introduced a steel armoured cable stripping tool


The OP is from (guess) . . . Birmingham
and his username is Marty.
Wonder if he is :
Martin Barrett, managing director of DiMart

If I am correct, wouldn't it have been better (and polite) to send one of the tools to the site owner and let him get some sparkies to test it and report back. That could have resulted in some advertising, whether good or bad, depending upon the usefulness of the equipment.

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Please let me try any free sample, got a huge swa job about to start. :thumbright:


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Yep put my name down for any free samples, After all think of all the publicity we could generate onsite and down the wholesalers :thumbright: :thumbright:

(Name and address supplied on request) :-)

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can i lay a bet on him not returning with with samples to test :lol:


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