What’s In Your Truck: The Best Wire Stripping Tools for Speed, Ease and Safety
To help you make the most of your day, we have compiled a blog series titled: “What’s in Your Truck?” The tools we reveal in these blogs will help make your onsite work safer, easier and faster – so you can reduce costs, maintain your safety record and get more done in less time. This is the third blog in the series.
As a former field electrician, I know how tedious and time consuming the process of stripping cable can be, and I have found the best wire stripping tools to make the process safer and more efficient.
So let’s find out … what’s in my truck to guide and grip circuit wire? (And what should be in your truck, too?)
WIRE STRIPPING TOOLS INCREASE EASE, SPEED, AND SAFETY
Instead of using a utility knife to strip the outer jacket from the end of a cable and then making a shallow cut around the cable (without cutting into it), Southwire’s XT Cable Stripper offers an easier, faster, safer way.
This cable stripping tool utilizes a replaceable, precision blade (safely enclosed inside the stripper) that eliminates the need to strip cables with a knife. You no longer have to worry about carrying a knife with you – or having it potentially slip and harm you or someone nearby. Because the blade is fixed, you can strip the cable without scoring it. Because the blade is curved, you can make faster cuts. The spring-loaded clamp keeps the cable securely in place so it doesn’t slip.
Appropriate for wire with a diameter anywhere between 1/0 (0.33 inches) to 1000MCM (1.284 inches), the XT Cable Stripper tool has an adjustable cutting depth. A four-inch depth gauge helps you make consistent, repeatable cuts every time. The tool’s compact design makes it easy to carry everywhere in a tool bag, toolbox or tool pouch. Made of aluminum, it can also stand up to use and abuse – no matter where it ends up.
Simply put, I keep the XT Cable Stripper and XT Mini Stripper in my truck because they:
- Hands free circuit wire feeding
- No more knuckle busters - reduces the need to route circuit wire into a raceway
- Reduce the possibility of cable damage during stripping
XT CABLE STRIPPER
- For End and Mid-Span Terminations on most 600V insulation types
- Cutting depth is adjustable to precisely match insulation thickness for fast stripping while eliminating cable scoring
- Adjustable four-inch depth gauge provides consistent repeatable cuts
- Replaceable, Precision Razor Sharp blade that is safely enclosed within the tool eliminates stripping cables with a knife
- Capacity: wire 1/0 (.33" in diameter) in size to 1000MCM (approx. 1.284" diameter)
XT MINI STRIPPER
- For end termination of THHN/XHHW jacket types XTS02
- Fixed blade allows to perfect stripping without cable scoring
- Replaceable blade that is safely enclosed within the housing
- Capacity: Wire sizes #6 AWG through 1/0
Is the XT Cable Stripper something you may want to keep in your truck? Do you want to see it in action first? Van Meter has experts and specialists on staff who can show you how these solutions work – and how they can truly save time, money and resources to help you be as efficient as possible.
Want to learn more about the tools I keep in my truck (and the tools you should keep in your truck, too)? Check out the first two blogs in our series, which show you how to pull wire faster and safer using Southwire's SIMpull CoilPak and Guide IT and GripIT.
