Stripping multicore wire?

[micky]

Carefully.

Or maybe use a wire stripper set to the right diameter. With some, especially cheap ones, you probably have to release your grip, rotate the wire a little and squeeze again. .

[micky]

This reminds me that when I was 8 or 10, my mother wouldn't give me a good knife, she gave me the cheapest, oldest, dullest knife she had, with a handle that wobbled. Decades later I learned that dull knives are more dangerous to use than sharp ones, but it was too late to call her on her mistake.

[Commander Kinsey]

How is this dull knife dangerous?

[Joe]

Because you have to press much harder to get anything done, there's more change of it slipping and going where it shouldn't.

[Commander Kinsey]

And then doing less damage when it does. The most damage I've done to myself was with a flat bladed screwdriver, why can't flat screws have an end to the slit so the screwdriver doesn't slip out? Oh and there was the time I shorted a bank of thirty car batteries for a solar power system. The pliers took the brunt of that and evaporated. Luckily the molten metal went in a different direction to me.

[micky]

There you go. A flat bladed screwdriver is even duller than a dull knife, and it did more damage to you, not less.

[Commander Kinsey]

No, a screwdriver is very sharp. It's also ten times shorter than a knife blade, so the force of it is only on a 3mm long piece of skin instead of 30mm long.

[micky]

I give up.

[Commander Kinsey]

"A flat bladed screwdriver is even duller than a dull knife" in simply untrue, or you buy shit screwdrivers. And you need to read up on pounds per square inch.