How To Strip Wires Without Wire Strippers-Using Pliers Instead 

I am a young woman that's miles away from her father who usually fixes her mishaps, and let me tell you...these videos have possibly saved my life. Lol.

I found this really helpful. I tripped over a wire and broke it and needed to re-join the wires. I don't own a wire-stripper and wanted to try doing it without buying one for this one time I'll ever use it. It helps that I already have a sense of what to do once the wires are stripped - I've joined and capped wires before. You shouldn't try to join wires without researching how to do it properly. So far no fires. I'll write back if that changes!

I'm an Electrician apprentice and I can guarantee to you that is not way you should be doing it. When you nick the wire it ruins the integrity of it, eventually causing it to break and causing a fault in the electrical device.

That’s a very creative way to cause a short

Applying pressure right now to the fresh cut from trying to strip wire with a razor...I like your gudance a whole lot more.

Ya, he nicked the common and the hot. They will eventual break after changing outlet boxes or too much movement. Plus no a shock hazard at the nicked areas. I have done electrical for years and stopped using wire strippers because of the easiness to score or nick the wires. I always use a razor knife to open the main case. Then use the small area on the back side of the pliers to squeeze the insulation on the wire. This splits the wire insulation casing and the you break off the plastic on both sides. No more accidentally ruining the wire. .

Thanks for the job security! Your chanel shouldnt have anything to do with electrical work

I'm currently doing a Trade course and for some reason in our first lesson we had to use pliers instead of wire strippers to pull back the insulator / sheathing.

My heart rate went up by about 50 beats per minute watching this. Maybe you could use this method in a serious pinch, but good luck convincing an insurance company to pay out when your house burns down. If you are dealing with line voltage, and you don't have proper wire strippers, I forbid you to ever do this.

lol im learning this for my grade 5 school i cant do it my classmates are doing it good

Thankyou

I am looking for a way to strip all of the wire. I'm not an electrician but sure wouldn't use that to make a connection.

I don’t advise it but seems like a cool trick

And if this was an energized circuit... BOOM

Maann...if i did dat..im gonna get fired

He said his striping was “perfect”? You can see where he bit into the insulation of the wires. 😆

You're a f***ing lifesaver. Perfect f***ing video!

obviously not an electrician....... I'm cringing just watching him trying to strip romex wire

U guys ever have to strip the hot with linesman’s live? zapped tf out of me

im done😭

Good advice👍

Genius

So helpful....thank you!

Arc fault waiting to happen

On the thinner wires you can just apply pressure and pull. No need to ‘eat’ around it

The damage he just done to both the single insulation and the conductor is one of the MANY reasons why these people should not play with things they are not qualified to do!......Can we watch him work on gas next and then liven up his installation??? I think someone might be getting a call if he's stiil alive!

Get some wire cutters, not pliers, split the end of the wire by cutting it where the earth is, grab the earth with the cutters and pull it, it will split the sheathing with no effort, pull until it's long enough then cut off the insulation, no nicks, no risk of cutting through the other cables, this was painful to watch.

Definitely not the way to do it. If you cut the wires flush with the outer insulation to start, you can then peel out to the side either the live or neutral cable until you can get a grip on the earth and pull it down along the middle , the copper from the earth wire will cut the outer insulation down the middle until you get to your desired length. Removing the insulation from the single wires is as simple as giving a tight squeeze with the cutter portion of the pliers and pulling outwards, it does take some practice to do so but you dont need to ring the pliers around the wire 10 times as shown in the video, the cutting portion on the pliers look really blunt.

Yo man. I’ve worked in Europe and the USA. Europeans normally get very confused when they see you using real wire strippers

Mines not coming off

Did I saw a nick?

RIP inner cores

Do not follow the advice given in this video. I would never strip wire this way, nor would I entertain the idea. For me, a stanley knife is the way to go; a little time consuming, but if you want a tidy cut, then spend time. Wire strippers are probably better, but I find them tricky to use properly without cutting straight through the conductors. Very poor video, sorry.

Unsure if this is a joke

As an electrician this is the stupidest thing I've seen. I don't care if it works

Thats a combination pliers not a side cutting pliers Its not "linesman pliers " its linemans plier.

This is NOT how you would do this...This is EXACTLY WHAT NOT TO DO (The conductors were scored just removing the ROMEX (NMSC) jacket!!!). Any good Journeyman will tell their apprentice to use wire strippers....If you practice enough, YES you can use your side cutters or dikes to score and strip the jacket but you DO NOT want to score the actual copper conductor (which was done in this video JUST TAKING THE ROMEX jacket OFF)....It is easier to strip sire with your pliers if you are stripping a small amount off the conductor, like 1/4"-3/4"...The more insulation you want to cut off, the more challenging this becomes with your Pliers...JUST USE WIRE STRIPPERS...NO ONE IS ever going to yell at you for doing it the RIGHT WAY....

i just did it with my nails lol

No

Terrible advice, please never do this for a wire you intended to actually use with electricity. There are proper tools for this for a reason. The integrity of the inner conductors was shot by the time the outer jacket was off. Awful

perfect cut? are you kidding? kid dont do videos on things you are no good at.

You're appreciated but I could do that in 25 seconds......"squish" is that proper terminology

Shameful. Not good advice.

This video went on way too long than it had to.

This is not good advice. Wire strippers are cheap. Your house burning is not. If you genuinely cant afford wire strippers, you should just ask an electrician. Nice new pliers b.t.w.

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You clearly dont work as an Electrician. Strippers were made for a reason.

This is butchery - no sane person should follow your example.

You are endangering people with your horrible method. This is not safe. My only hope is that you are obscure enough that nobody injures themselves or their property following your ignorant video.