you've requested it so today we're going to look at the Weicon 4-16 cable stripper
well we can argue over the name and I'm sure our german viewers will correct us but this cable
strip we've got a lot of interest when we made a previous video looking at NYY cable and it's
uk derivative what was it called that would be the tough sheath cable something you found incredibly
difficult to say in that video and if you haven't checked out that video the difference is between
NYY and tuff sheath cable from Doncaster cables check it out and there's some really good
differences that will make electrician's life a little bit easier yeah now this tool particularly
useful for that cable because it's a viable alternative to steel wire armored cable in lots of
applications so you're not worried about removing the steel you're just worried about the outer
jacket and that's what attracted us to it so what tool we're going to use to to do that and again
tough sheath the name gives it away it is quite a tough sheath in terms of stripping it it's a
pvc compound but it's uh yeah it is tough and it takes some effort so let's see how we set it
up because it's important we get the blade at the right depth in relationship to this outer sheath
yes so this is our recon stripper so you've got the clamp mechanism here and you can just see
the blade inside there yes okay so that's the cutting blade so i'll just get these
flexible tails from doncaster cable right okay so those flexi tails go we have done
a review on these as well so again just clamp it round right spin the tool around a few times
and then clever bit as you pull this where the blade's going to swivel around and slice
down the outer jacket so now if i go back in there now i should be able to fill that oh yeah
juggling that off you can see i haven't gone into the inner uh insulation there all right okay
brilliant so we have to set the blade every time unless you're doing it obviously multiple times
you just show us how you set that it's very easy just to put the blade against so say i was going
to remove the inner conductor and the insulation there yeah i'll just position the blade against it
and then rotate the and then rotate you've got a screw at this end here and that obviously moves
the blade in and out okay so in order to set it yeah nice and simple so really dead simple tool
but uh we handed it over to our team electrician let's see how we got on so gordon showed us how
to set the blade up so all of these have been set up correctly for each of the cables we start off
with a doncaster tough sheath cable so off we go with the outer so i find a split at the top
and i should be able to just peel this one straight off so sometimes it just runs the
last little bit on the end just that you see there i didn't quite catch the last little
bit so once you pop that through ever so easy to pull it off there we go so we're down there
now the bedding material next i'm going to have an attempt to use it so i'll need to adjust my blade
in order that i can ring round for the second part so exactly the same technique
pop it on just a little squeeze around a go and then straight down it and you'll see again look
that's taking the bedding material splitting nicely a little bit on the end again just pull
just take that apart and we're ready to terminate our tough sheath cable
meter towers next i've gone for the 19 core ones from doncaster so
we're going to use it again I've adjusted the blade all the way around
straight down again this time i've got the end bit a little bit softer material oh that was so simple
in order to get the outer pvc off let's do the inner so removing the brown now and we go push
down round pop it off look how easy that peels away so just going to get it on the end again
gary and then that should come off nice and simply so there's our 19 cores flexible tails
flex is next so standard three core flex again we've got the technique by now obviously a lot
easier there you can see how much easier it is on a flexible cable than someone's
just a little stiffer and just pull it straight off easy no issues at all
so let's move on to this one highly flexible class six conductor with over
300 strands in it so i'll be careful not to catch any of those strands you'll notice when
i pull this off did i catch any of them because you'll see those copper pieces little strands
coming out so here we go so pull off the outer jacket there we go so none of them were damaged
well he made a light work for those carry so good thing there lots of different types of
cable isn't it so yes very flexible ones and some tougher ones in there and all in common they're
all round cables so that was obviously part of the tool so yeah she saw all those different
ones i went around the workshop picked up all the different ones in order to put it to a test
and it yeah it was really good however we did find the ambient temperature made all stripping
including this one a little bit more challenging dude you we're not called in here today because
we've warmed ourselves up with these uh these heated vests that we've also done a review on so
check that from Makita and you'll see gary modeling but yes but makes it keep these keep us toasty and
warm we find with all types of cable you know if you're buried away on the data sheet there's a
recommended temperature when you should be installing them right if you ignore that
you'll have trouble bending the cable you could damage the cable but it also makes a massive
difference when you're stripping the cable as well if it's not at the right temperature absolutely
and yeah that would be that now we don't normally mention price on the channel because we don't like
to but we are in this because these are the words inexpensive aren't they yeah i'd say competitively
priced uh obviously we don't we don't yeah the price that their prices change but we will put
a link in the description below to an online retailer we might be able to get this with
next day free delivery and obviously that can change depending on where you are in
the world and the price book that is yeah because competitively price tool definitely and with that
in mind then i went on to say well i'm gonna it's got a blade in it competitively priced
can we unscrew and replace that blade gordon yeah you can and yeah so yeah it's yeah replacement
braid is also competitively priced um and quite easy to do and freely available so yeah that's a
for me a great tool if you have the top sheath we've done meter tails flex yeah almost there
suggest the toolbox essential now you said it's the 4-16 yeah I did and Weicon make lots of other
cable strippers so we've got the 8-27 what do you reckon that means does it go it's 27 millimeters
it is the diameter of the cables were our first one was obviously four to sixteen the one we're
looking at here they also do another one so you think it'd be logically the next step up it isn't
it's four to twenty-eight however that is a slightly different design it's exactly the same
here with an extra bit it's got a knife blade on the end okay but i recommend and lots of pictures
you see online it's actually got the plastic cap over it protecting the blade you imagine
you're dragging down the cable you'd like to make sure that that blade is protected at that stage
yeah so yeah yeah if you if you've got experience using that variant then yeah put a comment below
would like to know how you get on with that but yeah i like this too we always like to send our
videos to another video so we're going on to look at different classes of conductor aren't we yeah
okay we'll sleep the deaths obviously yes conductors come in all sorts of different shapes
and sizes but in conductive classes we're going to be looking at the stranding of conductors okay
and that's important for other videos we're going to revisit and that's our series on
ferals as well okay so if you haven't checked out our video series on ferals i also
strongly recommend you have a look at those and now they can improve electrical connections
so that's what we're going to after this we've been to this one so we've looked at nyy and table
called tough sheep oh that was a lot quicker than take two also alone in the past height
off but the manufacturer stopped making that and their doncaster cows have taken up the mantle and
they're making the top sheath cable depending on whether you call it weak on or v-con now i'm
on between that because that would make this water i think if we're going to use your rule
it doesn't matter which one you use i believe it's amazing yeah it is okay we're always interested in
your comments on cable strippers in this case are you currently using these ones from Weicon are you
using one of the range and maybe you'd like us to review it because he's got some great points
please leave that comment below is there somebody in there asking a question you know the answer
to make sure you comment against that is there another stripper you'd like us to take a look at
leave your comments below and we'll try and get back to as many as we can