Just won this auction. Time saver

[WolfeMacleod]

Automatic wire cutter and stripping machine

Wire Cutter Stripper Machine SWT508 SD LCD Strong Fast Precise Mint | eBay

Won't have to pay my assembly guy for hours and hours and hours to do such a tedious job,.

Boy is he gunna be pissed.

[big_teee]

I use some like these.
GE- 18101 Wire Stripper (18101) from Solid Signal

[salvarsan]

I've used an inexpensive Ideal Industries Stripmaster for a couple decades. You can get them for $25 at Home Depot.

Custom and professional options like solid steel frame and abrasive wire grips can send the price to $250.

For the rest of us, the important distinctions are that they come in normal and 3/4 "Lite" sizes, and a type E with grippers and blades for teflon insulated wire.

Stripmaster Lite wire stripper

Not recommended for the vintage-correct cloth insulated wire as its sodium silicate fireproofing is abrasive.

-drh

[big_teee]

I have a couple pair of the Ideal industrial kind, left over from my 42 year Telecomm job.
I prefer the light weight GEs.
Eezy Peezy and your done, and on your way!
Just whatever you like.
Small tools, take up small table or desk space!
T

[WolfeMacleod]

I've used an inexpensive Ideal Industries Stripmaster for a couple decades. You can get them for $25 at Home Depot.

Custom and professional options like solid steel frame and abrasive wire grips can send the price to $250.

For the rest of us, the important distinctions are that they come in normal and 3/4 "Lite" sizes, and a type E with grippers and blades for teflon insulated wire.

Stripmaster Lite wire stripper

Not recommended for the vintage-correct cloth insulated wire as its sodium silicate fireproofing is abrasive.

-drh

We've used something similar. They smash insulation, and I don't like that. Assembly guy uses them to strip 4 at a time, after wrapping up a few hundred turns on a dowel, then taping, and slicing down to created a ribbon of leads. But he's slow.. oh, so slow... it would take him all day to make a hundred leads. Cutting a 1000 foot spool of 4-conductor into just it's lenghts? a coupel days...

[Beef Coon]

Cool machine; but don't really get why you keep criticizing your assembly guy here.

[salvarsan]

. . . but don't really get why you keep criticizing your assembly guy here.

Sometimes you meet people who are too much effort.
It's not that they are bad or mean but that they make ordinary things difficult.
"High maintenance" is one type, 8-track mind in a thumb drive world is another, kangaroos in the upper paddock is yet another.

[big_teee]

Cool machine; but don't really get why you keep criticizing your assembly guy here.

I agree 100%.
Not the place to discuss worker relations.
But Hey:
What do I know, I'm Retired!
T

[Beef Coon]

Sometimes you meet people who are too much effort.
It's not that they are bad or mean but that they make ordinary things difficult.
"High maintenance" is one type, 8-track mind in a thumb drive world is another, kangaroos in the upper paddock is yet another.

I get it.

Me personally, I don't want to waste a moment of my time or energy with this type of stuff. If things aren't working out change is in order, sometimes drastic.
I've come across people that treat this stuff like a sporting event - by being a participant as a player, spectator and or commentator. & I've just broken my own rule of staying out of these types of arenas.... oh well!

T - Septic tank?

[David King]

Will we feel any better when Wolfe complains that his robots have ganged up on him and locked him in the wire closet? Who's going to go bust him out?

Wolfe is 22 awg the smallest hookup wire you're using?

[WolfeMacleod]

Will we feel any better when Wolfe complains that his robots have ganged up on him and locked him in the wire closet? Who's going to go bust him out?

Wolfe is 22 awg the smallest hookup wire you're using?

We, we use 28awg.
And I know what you're goign to say. "From 16 to 22awg" right? Nope. That's what THEY have stripped with it. Not the capabilities of the machine. Machine does 14-32awg.

Cool machine; but don't really get why you keep criticizing your assembly guy here.

Come to my house for a day some time. You'll see.
I hired a new girl a few months back. She's great. Fighting cancer, healing from a broken back and two shatter legs made of cadaver parts (car accident), Fibro, and a slew of other stuff. Comes to work, works hard, doesn't complain. Gets shit done.
He makes her head want to explode.

Oh, yeah...he was pretty upset about the time-saving machine.

[WolfeMacleod]

I agree 100%.
Not the place to discuss worker relations.

I don't really see why not. As business owners all in the same field, we should be able to discuss the pros and cons of having employees, and the difficulties or challenges they bring. What types of people to hire, what types of people to avoid, etc.

[big_teee]

Unless a said employee reads what you say about them here, and wants to sue YOU for depredation of character!
It makes a lot of us feel uncomfortable.
Especially if you spent your life working for a large corporation like I did, and talking about other employees would get you fired.
But, you do what you want to!
T

[WolfeMacleod]

Unless a said employee reads what you say about them here, and wants to sue YOU for depredation of character!
It makes a lot of us feel uncomfortable.
Especially if you spent your life working for a large corporation like I did, and talking about other employees would get you fired.
But, you do what you want to!
T

That's understandable. I doubt he would ever read this though. Zero interest in guitar or anything related. Or music, even. It's just a "turn the screwdriver" job for him. The easiest little-effort-required thing he could do and still not be homeless.
I've known him 24 years, by the way.

[Leo_Gnardo]

As business owners all in the same field, we should be able to discuss the pros and cons of having employees, and the difficulties or challenges they bring. What types of people to hire, what types of people to avoid, etc.

I gathered that's what this was about Wolfe, while you were miserating about Mr Go-Slow. And I can tell you about some bosses, too. Both bad & good. Co-workers, same. But we have work to do, no time for that. All sorts in this world.

I'm happy you have one worker you can boast about & hope you'll give her the support & encouragement she deserves. And that you'll get another similar soon. Unfortunately it's been explained as the Peter Principle, that those who are least able often find their level of incompetence and get stuck there interminably. That works for both management and labor. I think we've all run across 'em, multiple times. Also bad personnel that push out good, a shame but that's the way the cookie bounces.