Hardin AMT-HD-1270 WS-1270 Manual Cable and Wire Stripper, Small, Red

Love the product and I believe it is very well built and sturdy. It gets the job done and I am very happy I bought it. My primary venture is not stripping wire for the copper however I get enough of it that this product makes it a much easier and a much more profitable endeavor! I read all of the reviews and am glad I was swayed by the more positive ones. It took me awhile to figure it out as there are no "instructions" included (but there is a phone number). I looked at the photo and found a better one (photo) on another site that was selling the same item (for $13 more plus shipping). I never called the # and was able to figure out how to use the product in a few minutes. I am very satisfied with this product and I highly recommend it. The price is right, it works great, delivery was prompt and I am doing well recycling copper wire!!

Overall a great product if your stripping wire on the side for extra cash. Arrived quickly, no damage and already assembled. It’s quite easy to adjust to your wire size. If you have a mixture of different wire types/sizes, I would highly recommend sorting your wire by same size to eliminate having to adjust so often for each wire.It takes a couple tries adjusting to the blade to the right depth but once you have it, it’s easy street from there. You do have to make sure your wire is not twisted as it will not pull it through with twists in the wireThe only negative thing I have noticed, is it seems you have to check the blade depth every once in awhile as it seems to loosen a bit but that’s an easy fix as you can adjust the bottom roller instead of the actual blade.Overall does what it’s supposed to and saves a ton of time than by using a knife or wire strippers.

I tried utube strippers I bought two other cheaper strippers, Then I told myself that I would try this one. Even though this was more expensive it is well worth it. I takes a little time to get used to it but once you get it down and keep the cutter sharp It works great. Well worth it I tried then all if you have a lot of wire to strip just pull it through and it takes off the covering

Lots of inconveniences - it only works on wire of specific width and is really hard to adjust otherwise. It is often VERY difficult to get the blade to a point where it will cut through wire, vs. just denting it or cutting the actual copper inside the wire.

The WS-1270 Hardin fulfilled the expectations that I trained him, I'm an electrician and had always peeled by hand with a wire knife recovered from my work. He spent hours stripping wires of different calibers and different lengths for single lobtener 4 0 5 kilos of copper, install the WS-1270 Hardin on a particular column of my tank and started to try different sizes, from 16-gauge wire to that of grade 8, to 14, 12, and 10, as well as cable probe ST 2x16 and 2x14 and 2x16 nw, fully fulfilled its mission, obtube in 2 hours 16 kilos of copper, saving the blisters hands and the razor cuts.

If you are considering buy this, Don’t. This is not a good hobby starter. And it really is not for those who have a lot of cable to strip.First the good;It is of solid construction. And it is not flimsy.When it does work it can speed up the process slightly and you don’t have to fiddle around with a knife too much. So you minimize your chance to cut yourself.Now the Bad;The cutting pin is strong but not very deep or sharp so you will have to constantly change and adjust the pin position depending on the thickness of the plastic. And if its double layered which any worthwhile copper cable is then you have to do the process twice. Supper west of your time and effort.And forget about it if you have anything with a 1.5CM or higher diameter the designer was extremely short sighted, the three stabilizers need to be further out with longer adjusters. You can adjust in for small cables but not out so a cable like the cable pictured on their adds would fit but you won’t be able to secure it.You are fiddling and adjusting the tool enough that it does west a lot of time on just setup.It has a skinny designee and doesn’t feel sturdy when mounted; I wish it had a handle or a bigger footprint.There is no stabilizing unit to feed the cable so cable will always dangle and give you all kinds of traction issues and through put nightmare. You will hate yourself trying to feed the cables when it is Vertical.What I had to do is create a feeder system (kind of defeats the purpose of buying the tool)1. I cut a hole on two wood boards and mounted them aligned on a 2/4 frame so I can pull the cables through boards then pull through the tool for a more stable throughput.2. Still I had to constantly keep the tool aligned to the feeder system for some kind of a consistent flow. Every few minute something would come loose.3. Still it was quite difficult, so I then took the tool off of its mount and laid it flat on my feeder system as its better to pull up the cables.Unbelievably bad designee execution so makes the item super awkward to use no matter what.

Usefull. You can tell it was build cheap tho. There is set screws on the adjusters and I went to tighten it down and the set screw fell in side the pipe. Like wtf. Then the two side bearings dont line up properly witch causes a gap making it hard to strip smaller wire..

Works very well on certain sizes. I had a lot of #10 AWG stranded for which it worked great. It worked for #12 as well, but I only stripped a little of that. I also stripped larger wire with success, but when I got up to the 3/0 and 4/0 it seemed to just bend the blade out of alignment..... It is great for mid sized wire.