In the process of installing wires, one of the most responsible stages of work is to remove the insulation. It does not matter an aluminum wire, a copper, covered with enamel or plastic insulation, in each case it is necessary to observe the technology when it is stripped. If you ignore the recommendations and tips on how to clean the wire, then specifications Manufactured electrical system Will low. Consider several methods for removing isolation from a variety of coated wires.

Wiring structure features

Wires are two types:

1. Single-core.
2. Stranded.

Under one-coded implies the wire in which the section is formed by one residential or wiring. As for multi-core, the cross section of such a wire is formed by several subtle wiring, which in some cases intertwined among themselves. In order for the stranded wire to be elastic and elastic, the structure is added to the structure, which resembles the categorous. Taking into account these features, the insulation removal technology in each individual may differ.

Stripping with a knife

When removing insulation, the knife can not be cut in a circle of the wire with a blade in a perpendicular position - a notch of copper core may form. As a result, with a small bending, the wire is easily and quickly breaking precisely in this place, especially if you undertake to clean the wire with a thickness of 0.6-0.8 mm. After several folds, the wire is completely broken. When scrolling the wire with a knife, the blade should be almost in the same plane with the axis of the wire. Pre-insulation is cut along the veins. Cut along the insulation is assigned to the side and simply cuts off.

With this option to remove the insulation, it is important to be careful, as you can easily injure your hands.

Using side-

Such a tool like windows, often use incorrectly. The tool is taken into hand as it will have to do not pay attention to the direction of cutting edges. With incorrectly using windows, you will have to make great efforts. In addition, in this case, there is a big risk of breaking the wire along with isolation.

It is important that the cutting edges are directed to the opposite tool movement. With this option, the blade will be crashed into isolation even with a minor effort. As a result, the insulation tube is removed from the surface of the core, not traumating it.

Method of melting

If you have a soldering iron, you can quickly remove the insulation by the thermal method. To do this, heal the sting of the soldering iron and spend slightly on plastic isolation. After heating, the plastic is mounted and removed. This method does not violate the conductor. If you need to clean a large number of wires with such a winding, it is recommended to use a special device. For example, a suitable will be a special leaning around the tree, which was previously known as "pattern".

The module is most effective if your wiring is old. After a long service life, the plastic winding on the wire becomes rigid and fragile. Especially if distribution box The wire peeps for two or three centimeters. Either a nipple, no knife can cope with it. And if you use a lighter or bring up a soldering iron, then clean the wire turn out.

And if enameled wire

If the conductor has a thickness of 0.2 mm, then optimal option will be mechanical method Removing isolation. To do this, uses a knife or sandpaper, which zaps insulation.

• For cable processing, which has thin insulation, you can use emery paper Small sections. Bend it in half the emery inside. Then make the cable into the bent sandpaper and, slightly pressing the fingers, pull the wire. This procedure should be continued until enamels.
• If a knife is used, you need to put part of the cable on a solid base. Then it is necessary to turn it in a circle until the enamel is scaled from the surface of the conductor.

If the conductor is still thinner and has a diameter of less than 0.2 millimeters, then the mechanical method will not be effective. This is due to the fact that the enamel will not eliminate the result, and the wire itself can break. In this case, you can master the thermochemical method using the soldering iron and chlorvinyl isolation. To begin with, heating the soldering iron, after the table put the chlorvinyl, and on top of the wire and on it lead the soldering iron. Under influence high temperatures Chlorine is produced, which will clean the wire from enamel.

In most cases, such wires are used in radio communications, and it is that it is wound on inductive coils. He also has a name - Lithzpectra. In its view, it is distinguished by the presence of a large number of subtle wiring, which are suitable in one conductor and at the same time covered with enamel.

No less interesting is another option for removing enameled isolation from the wire. You will need to buy aspirin tablets. They are stacked by the wire and on it is similar to the warmed up of the soldering iron. As a result, the wire is taken off and plus it is also listed.

Removal of fluoroplastic isolation

Under fluoroplast, the polymer is meant, which is made by the chemical method. It has a number of positive characteristics, for example, does not rinse from water and has high resistance in relation to organic substances. Its technical characteristics allow it to withstand temperatures up to 300 ° C! The insulation is the ideal optionBut the main drawback is a high price. In this regard, I use it in special cases. In everyday life, he applies to many radio amateurs, since after soldering it has aesthetic species, takes a little space and not melted.

The material itself has a shape of a thin narrow tape. She, in turn, is tight wound on a retinuous stranded wire. Clean this isolation is possible only by a knife. Fluoroplast scrapes to the desired length. As soon as the wire was denied, the insulation is removed on the desired length, and the remaining fluoroplast is cut off.

Isolation of fabric, rubber is preparing any of the above methods. The main thing is to prevent the protesters of the main core!

All methods are manual. They require more time and attention, not to mention the experience when it comes to strategic wires with a small cross section. If you work in this area, you must regularly clean the wires from isolation, then it is best to partially automate this process. For this, ticks were specifically designed or also called them - stripper.

With the help of a stripper, insulation is removed in one press of the palm. Consider how to clean the wires using the WS-04 stripper.

Technical characteristics of WS-04 stripper:

• You can remove insulation and snack wires Ø0.5-2.7 mm with a cross section from 0.2 to 6.0 mm 2 without prior configuration.
• When setting up a microscopic screw, the insulation can be removed from a thin wire with a size of 0.25 to 0.5 mm.
• Stripper allows you to pressed on the wires connector without insulation, isolated or automotive wires under double clamp 0.8-2.7 mm.

In his own way, the stripper resembles ticks, at the end of which there is a fist lever. The upper fists are mobile, and the lower installed stationary. For the clamp of the wire, the left pair is served, and the right to remove and trim insulation. When you first checked the handles, the left cam clamps the wire, and the right crashes with its sharp edge into isolation. With constant information, the insulation levers is gradually removed from the wire. The process of stripping the wire stripper takes a few seconds.

The process of consistent operation of the stripper model WS-04 with a single-core, stranded and two-core wire:

1. The wire starts between cutting knives that are located on inner side pens. Then they should be reduced. As a result, a cut of the end of the wire without deformation is obtained. To compare cut slicing with nipples, the end is always flattened and slightly sharpened.
2. In the next step, one end of the wire is started between a moving and stationary sponge. After compressing the handles, insulation is removed. With such work on the conductor, there are no supercurses.
3. To adjust the exact length of the isolation taken, you can use a blue moving limiter.
4. On a two-tier wire, insulation is removed with a stripper with two arrivals.
5. From the first approach, a chlorvinyl tube is removed.
6. At the second stage, insulation from two wires is simultaneously removed.

Working hours can take no more than 5 seconds!

Among other things, the stripper can also be used to remove the insulation of the telephone cable before pressing the RJ-11 connector. If a screw connection is used, then only one movement is removed insulation from the wires.

Stripper can also be used to remove shielded wires. First of all, it should be noted that this is a rather complicated task, especially it becomes complicated if the conductor is thin. So, the first thing is the insulation with the shielding braid. To bargain the central wire broke the braid with a needle or spike. It remains to make one movement stripper and the wire is released from isolation. Clean the shielded wire manually time-consuming work, especially if you have only a knife at your hands. The knife is very easy to damage the wire!

So, as you can see the stripper rather a universal tool that cleans different wires from isolation.

Coaxial cable

Clean the insulation on the coaxial cable can be both hands. Although the equipment for this purpose is inexpensive and affordable, we will tell you about how to make a job with nippers and a knife. As a rule, such a cable is used to connect satellite TV and for standard Connectors F.

Step-by-step instructions How to clean the wire coaxial:

1. Cable should be taken towards your body.
2. Take the stationery knife and tightly press the cable at a right angle from the end of the cable at a distance of 2.5 cm. You can not press the edge of the blade otherwise it breaks down and can bounce in the eye.
3. At this stage, it is necessary to cut the outer shell, braid, foil layer and dielectric foam. In most cases, it has white color. With such as layers and surrounded lived. In the process of diving blades in the cable you will feel some resistance. As soon as the blade went to half the wire to put pressure on it less. It is extremely important not to damage the central custody!
4. Next should go along the cable. At the same time, be careful not to leave cooks on the core.
5. Now for the cut edge of insulation, pull and twist. Such actions you can remove the cut end of the isolation.
6. If the wiring sticks out from under the cable shell, then cut them with impressions so that they do not go beyond the edge of the shell. It is important to explore the wire for serifs. If there are such, it means that the procedure described above will have to be repeated.
7. Dielectric foam can partially stay on the main core. You can simply remove it.
8. To connect the cable with the F connector F, pre-remove the small part of the upper shell.
9. To do this, donate eight millimeters from the previous place. Make an incision on the upper shell. As in the previous case, the incision is done perpendicular to the wire. Be careful not to hook a braid. In some modifications of the connector F in removing the braid there is no need, and in others, on the contrary, it should be deleted.
10. If you are not sure whether the braid is needed in your case, then leave it temporarily. This braid is around the dielectric foam. Her wiring has a thickness less than a human hair, so all work should be done carefully. Just now, no longer need to make the blade with the blade throughout the wire.
11. Remove eight millimeters of the cable shell, so that dielectric foam wrapped in the winding remains on the core.
12. The braid turns on top of the outer shell. So, the dielectric is broken. At this stage, pay attention to the requirement of the F-connector: which end of the wire should be in your case.
13. Between the braid and the central residential, all possible wiring should be missing. Against the background of a white dielectric, it will be well noticeable.
14. F-connector is placed on the end of the cable.
15. The dielectric should be at the bottom of the connector after it landing on it. It is unacceptable so that he penetrates or did not get to the bottom of the connector.

In no case does not accept the contact with the F-connector.

Now the F-connector is ready for operation.

Cable insulation knives

Separately, it is worth saying about special knives that are directly used to remove insulation from the cable. For example, the most popular is a crochet knife. In the process of operation, it is much more convenient than the stationery. Moreover, thanks to the thick blade, they can work more confident and bolder. Cut the isolation of the wire will be difficult for them, but to cut the cable along: This is what you need. Such a hook is well absorbed into the cable shell, so it will not pop up from it. However, this tool does not have all the advantages, since it cannot provide a good cable sweep.

Known another special knife.

In the work it is very simple. To start big finger Tighten the special bracket. It is under it that you will be taught the wire. In this place, a small knife rotating around its axis looks out of the handle. After laying the cable, the bracket presses it to this knife. Make two or three turns around the wire up to the reception. Now, without removing the wire, pull the tool with effort towards the end. The knife will turn and cut along the shell. In the end, it will be easy to remove the sliced \u200b\u200bpart and continue to work.

The only drawback of such a device is that it is necessary to customize the wheel directly under the depth of one or another type of wire. To configure, you can use the segment of the wire.

Also, such a knife is not very successfully coping with the elimination of isolation. This is due to the fact that the device can flatten the thick cable in careless effects.

So, we looked at the most common methods how to remove isolation from the wire. Perhaps one of the above methods will be useful and in your case. Successful to you work!

When you pave the wiring one of the most basic and responsible stages is to remove insulation from the wires. And it will not be absolutely no matter what you will handle the material - copper, with a plastic or enamel-covered, because Each of these cases requires compliance with stripping technology. If you ignore tips and recommendations on how to remove isolation from the wire, then as a result, the technical characteristics of the entire electrical system will not be high. In this article, look at several ways to remove materials. of different types, as well as to the device for this work.

Structure of wires

All wiring can be divided into two types:

1. Single-core;

2. Strategic.

Single-core is that it is formed by one residential or wiring. However, these are those in which the cross section is formed by the presence of several subtle, which are intertwined with each other. They for elasticity and elasticity are woven thread, resembling a caprony. There is to take into account this feature, then the technology of removal from each hotel case may vary.

How to remove isolation with a knife

Let's see how to quickly remove isolation with a knife. If you decide to use this method, then in no case can be carried out in a circle in a perpendicular position, because By this you can cause a notch of copper lived. As a result, even with a large bend, the veins can quickly and easily break exactly in the place of the word. Especially it is undesirable to do when working with a cross section of 0.6-0.8 mm. So, bent several times, he will break completely. When you take it with a knife, then the blade must be kept in almost one plane with a plane and axis. First of all, you need to cut along the lived, and after that it, already cut along, is given away from the lived and cut off.

However, we draw your attention that if you decide to remove the insulation in a similar way, then be careful, because With ease, you can cut your hands.

Application of booths

Most beginners electricians when they decide to work by the windows, do not use them correctly. So, most often, this tool for removing isolation from the wires, how will have taken into hand and does not pay attention to the position of the cutting edges. But, by the way, if you missed the boards, you will have to apply more effort. In addition, there is a big risk of reversing or snack.

Technology of work by side: Cutting edges send to the opposite direction to the tool. All because with this location, the blade will be cut even with minimal effort. As a result, you get a remote tube shell and not damaged wire.

Remove insulation by reflow

If you need to remove insulating material And you have a soldering iron at hand, then you can use the thermal method. To do this, simply heat the soldering iron and storing on plastic isolation. Naturally, after heating, you can easily remove the melted shell with copper wire or any other. The use of such a method will not violate its integrity. But if you need to clean up a large number of conductors with a similar winding, you can apply a special design. For example, the delicate of wood will be perfectly suitable, previously known called "Pattern".

Using this method is relevant with old material. When it operates too long, the winding becomes fragile and tough. Moreover, most often, from the junction box, the wires protrude only for a couple of centimeters, so that neither the knife, nor imposing them. But if you just apply a lighter or soldering iron, then you can easily remove what they conceived.

Removal with enameled option

If you need to remove isolation from the wire having a thickness of 0.2 mm, then the best option will be mechanical restoration knife or emery paper.

• To treat a cable with a thin coating, you can apply with a small cross section of sandpaper. It needs to be hit in half working surface Inside. After that, the conductor wrap in this bent leaf and, slightly pressing, stretch. So you need to do as long as the enamel does not completely delete.
• If you work with a knife, then the cleaned part of the cable must be put on a solid base. Then start to scrape the enamel, while turning the conductor at the same time, until everything is cleaned.

However, with diameter less than 0.2 mm, this mechanical method Use will not work, because Enamel you do not fully remove, and you can break the wire itself in two bills. In such situations, it is possible to use a thermochemical method of stripping using chlorvinyl insulation and soldering iron. The sequence will be as follows: heating the soldering iron, put the chlorvinyl shell on the table, and on it a cleaned conductor, and lead to a soldering iron. As a result, chlorine is distinguished under the influence of the temperature, which will be cleaned of enamel.

Basically, similar options are used in radio communications devices and wound on inductive coils. It is called a licenant. Externally, it looks like this: a large amount of thin wiring, pigs in a single integer coated enamel.

Pay attention to another interesting way Remove enameled coating. For him you need to buy aspirin pills. Then lay the material on the tablet and in the same way to be kept by a soldering iron. As a result, you will get a bare outcome, and besides lured.

Stripping fluoroplastic isolation

Fluoroplastic insulation is a polymer produced chemical method. It has a number of positive properties. For example, it does not wet in water and has high resistance to various organic substances. Its parameters allow it to be resistant to temperatures up to 300 ° C. It is an ideal version of an electric dielectric. However, there is one major drawback - the cost. It is because of its high price, it applies only in exceptional cases. In domestic conditions, he fell in love with radio amateurs, because After his soldering, he has aesthetic appearance, not melted, and the place takes a little.

The fluoroplastic itself looks in the form of a narrow thin ribbon, which is tight wound on a stranded core. It is possible to remove the fluoroplastic option only with a knife. It scraps to the length you need. After he was denied, the shell is assigned to the side, and the remains are cut off.

Pay attention! Tissue or rubber insulation is removed by any of the ways described above. The main task is to prevent cuts of the main core.

Using automatic stripper

All methods described above are manual. They take a lot of time and your attention, and this is not already talking about the experience of such work. If you have to remove the isolation, you have to do quite often, it is better to automate the entire process slightly. For this, a special tool has been developed for removing isolation from wires, which is called stripper. For example, we will analyze the WS-04 stripper model. In their way appearance It resembles ticks, having a fist lever at their ends. The tops are movable, and the lower - stationary. In order to clamp the cable, the left pair is used, and the right is to trim and remove it. During the first information of the handles, the left side clamps, and the right is crashed with sharp edges into the shell. When drawing the handles, the cutting part gradually cleales. All work stripper on stripping takes just a couple of seconds.

Using a stripper, it can be removed from the wires with the wires by one hand. For example, consider how to remove isolation from the wire stripper.

1. The wire must be taken between the cutting knives located on the inside of the handle. After that, they need to be reduced. As a result, it comes out without any deformations. So that you understand the difference, the end is always a bit sharply and flattened.
2. The next step will be the establishment of one end between the fixed and moving sponge. By pressing on the handle, the coating will be removed. During such a stripping, there will be no sneakers.
3. For adjustment accurate length Removal can be used in a blue limiter.
4. Two-tire wires stripper are cleaned in two navigation: the first - the chlorvinyl tube is removed; The second is the simultaneous removal of 2 elements.

In addition, the stripper can be used to stripping telephone cables in front of their pressing and shielded options. True, when working with them, it will be a difficult task, especially if the sleeve is a small diameter. However, despite this, we will tell you the technology of work. First, you need to remove the shell with the shielding braid. For the destruction of the central core, it is necessary using a sewn or needle to break the braid. After that, the already known movement of the stripper and it is bare. Remember that hard work is to clean it with a knife, and besides you can easily damage it.

Processing coaxial cable

Remove insulation from wires on coaxial version It is quite possible on its own. Although all equipment for this procedure is not too expensive, we will show you how to do it with knife and nipples. Usually similar models Used to connect television antennas.

Below will give a sequence of actions to clean the coaxial model:

1. The wire must be taken vertically;
2. The stationery knife should be tightly at a right angle to press the cable at a distance from the end of 2.5 cm. Do not press the end of the blade, in otherwise There is a risk of damage and rebound into the eyes.
3. Next you need to cut through the outer shell, braid, foil and dielectric foam ( white color). It is similar layers that makes this option. As you will click on the knife blade, you will feel definite resistance. After the blade includes up to half the cable, the pressure must be slightly reduced to avoid damage to the central vein.
4. Then walk, trimmed by cable. At the same time, everything is desirable to do carefully, so as not to leave back on the central core.
5. After trimming the edge, screw and pull. So you will remove the cut end.
6. In the presence of wiring under the shell, just cut them with nipples so that they do not dive with the border of the shell. Check the presence of combing on the central core. If they are presented, everyone will have to repeat.
7. Dielectric foam can remain on the central core. She just removes the nail
8. To connect the cable with the F connector, it is pre-removed to remove a small part of the outer shell.
9. From the previous point of the cut, measure 8 mm. Perform an incision in the outer shell. All exactly as well as before - perpendicular to the dwelling. Make sure not to remove the braid. However, to connect individual F connector, the removal of the braid is necessary, and for others there is no. As a result, you should get a living in a dielectric foam, wrapped in the winding (in the form of foil).
10. When you have not yet decided whether the braid need you, then better leave it for a while. It is located around the dielectric foam.
11. Braid need to wrap over the outer shell. After that, white foam is broken. Here you already need to decide on the type of your F connector and the shape of the bare wire.
12. Please note that there should be no lived between the central residential and braid. It will be visible.
13. F The connector is placed on the end of the cable.
14. After landing the connector, the dielectric should not be it. It is invalid such a situation so that he does not get to the bottom of the connector or peeking.
15. We pay attention to that it is impossible to contact the connection F connector with a sting.
16. All, coaxial cable is ready to work.