Hizmivos Manual Wire Stripping Machine Gauge

This little machine works great. Works as it should and as described. Once you have it dialed in to the size wire your stripping it moves right along. We'll worth the money and it will make its money back 💯 100 times over if taken care.

I gotta say I was.noy expecting much from this little guy,but it works very good. take a little time to look it over and straighten out the wire the best you can. Great little unit.

Easy to assemble and works great even the manual way very effortless

I have run hundreds of feet of all different kinds of wire through this stripper over the last few months and have found the strengths, weaknesses and some things I would change about the design. First, I bought this particular one over other cheaper, exact copies because this one showed it came with a spare blade. As it turns out, a spare blade is not included so right away I had a negative opinion of it and wished I had bought the cheapest one of this style but it has done the job so far on a single blade so the blade life is pretty good. I have stripped solid wire, stranded wire, aluminum wire, romex, automotive battery cable, multi-conductor wire and more styles. I have found some work better than others in this machine. Solid wire is the easiest to strip and stranded takes some dialing in of the cut depth and gets a bit messy but works good - wear gloves! Flat Romex can be stripped with this by using the largest hole to remove the outer cover then stepping down to the small holes for the individual wires inside. Wire with braided cloth-like jackets (old style wire) does not work as well and will clog up the wheels so the machine has to be constantly cleaned, I use a pick. A cordless drill makes stripping wire very easy, I never even installed the handle. I also keep a cable cutter nearby and a razor blade for any missed cuts or cuts that didn't go deep enough or just cutting off excess insulation already stripped off. A pick cleans out the drive wheels when they get clogged up (see photo of gunk on wheels). I do have problems every so often of the drive wheel slipping sideways on the shaft and have to put it back in place with a small prybar and re-tighten the set screw. Lastly, this machine should come with thumb screws instead of bolts to make changing the wire feed size plate a quicker operation as I find myself changing it fairly often. If you use the largest hole, the plate needs to be removed completely and flipped around. When my local scrap prices are about a $3 difference/lb for stripped vs unstripped wire, this machine is a no-brainer and is a money maker worth buying and saving time.

Coming back 6 months later to say I was wrong about this machine. At first it went well but after the first big pull I did with 10awg I couldn’t get it to work correctly again. It also badly mangled the blade in just its second use. I tried about 4 more times for the next month and it always ended up in disaster, so I gave up and went back to the old utility knife and arm method. I for some reason gave it another try 3 days ago and tweaked some settings and the cover plates in front of the blade and it’s been a blast. I’m finally able to scrap all my copper right near Christmas time. Even with the messed up blade it still works very very well.