How to cut and strip heavy gauge wire easily

In this Instructable, you will learn how to easily cut and strip heavy gauge wire, without using heavy duty or professional tools. Sorry about some of the images' quality. My camera was not behaving.

Step 1: Tools

In the image are the tools you may need. Hover over the yellow boxes for more info.

Comments

[Redstormx1]

IF you dont know how to strip wire this big why are you playing with it ?

[mefromliny]

Cutting a wire is actually a very simple thing to do, but I learned a thing ar two from your Instructable. VERY well put together! Thanks for posting it. Ken

[texabyte]

I've cut 6 gauge wire with a good pair of Klein diagonal cutters. Anything Over that, I use a pair of small bolt cutters.

[pfred2]

I have SPEEDEX, Ideal T Strippers, and spring loaded spin style coax strippers with custom dies, but sometimes sharp scissors are my tool of choice. Though if I'm stripping a lot of the same wire I will setup my coax stripper.

[Prfesser]

Wire over 10 ga can often be difficult to strip. Do be careful not to nick the individual wires in the process, else you may have created a place for breakage to occur.