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giovanni said:
Me too please!!!
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Coming your way (if not already)…I am also sending you a ribbon cable stripper I tested. It will do up to 5-wire with a single squeeze. The tweezers I tried do well with hookup wire, but poorly on the ribbon cable. The soldering blade did better but again, not as good as the stripper but well on hookup wire.
 
fig said:
Coming your way (if not already)…I am also sending you a ribbon cable stripper I tested. It will do up to 5-wire with a single squeeze. The tweezers I tried do well with hookup wire, but poorly on the ribbon cable. The soldering blade did better but again, not as good as the stripper but well on hookup wire.
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How about a link to that stripper?
 
fig said:
Coming your way (if not already)…I am also sending you a ribbon cable stripper I tested. It will do up to 5-wire with a single squeeze. The tweezers I tried do well with hookup wire, but poorly on the ribbon cable. The soldering blade did better but again, not as good as the stripper but well on hookup wire.
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You are too kind sir! How can I repay you?
 
Harvest time...which gives me an idea !

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Guys, I gotta tell you, I bought the EXACT same strippers, the yellow Amazon set, and they were terrible! Incidentally, I got em for the same thing, stripping ribbon cable,and it would just maul the ends of the wires. The plastic jaws were warped slightly. And no amount of adjustment would work. Single wires could be stripped, just had to hold it in the right place in the blades. I admit, mine could be a rare case, but it just seemed like crummy QA..
 
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Sturdag Lagernathy said:
Guys, I gotta tell you, I bought the EXACT same strippers, the yellow Amazon set, and they were terrible! Incidentally, I got em for the same thing, stripping ribbon cable,and it would just maul the ends of the wires. The plastic jaws were warped slightly. And no amount of adjustment would work. Single wires could be stripped, just had to hold it in the right place in the blades. I admit, mine could be a rare case, but it just seemed like crummy QA..
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Thank you! I had them a total of 30 min. and a just few cuts. Were you able to find a good reliable pair or method ?

Edit: Maybe IDC connectors would be the way to go. I’ll try to source some for this application. (y)
 
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Sturdag Lagernathy said:
Guys, I gotta tell you, I bought the EXACT same strippers, the yellow Amazon set, and they were terrible! Incidentally, I got em for the same thing, stripping ribbon cable,and it would just maul the ends of the wires. The plastic jaws were warped slightly. And no amount of adjustment would work. Single wires could be stripped, just had to hold it in the right place in the blades. I admit, mine could be a rare case, but it just seemed like crummy QA..
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I don't have any ribbon cable to try them on, but find stripping several pieces of wire at the time to do well with it
 
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Without strain relief, they seem to be an issue waiting to happen (but take it with a cold beer or grain of salt…maybe a margarita?). I did see some FFC as short as 2” and some 90º pcb mount FFC slip-in adapters but that seems a bit overkill.

Let us know how the strippers fare please Giovanni.
 
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