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Yes, it take a fair tug to pull it off but it does come eventually.

Also leaves a nice neat end which helps to keep the cable under neat.
Given patience you just strip a bit and pull it off, then repeat until enough.

I have the CK equivalent and find it great for T&E as it gives a neat finish on the sheath and you can use it on the conductors. However, the cable cutter/crimp bits between the handles are a pain as they sometime nip your palms, so I took an angle grinder to my ones to take the worst of the bits off. Utterly useless are crimping the R/B/Y style of insulated terminals anyway.
 
patience you just strip a bit and pull it off, then repeat until enough.
Quicker stripping via the earth core then, although I'm not struck on the method.

For grey I still strip with a controlled knife between earth and another core but that's ridiculously hard with LSF.
 
Quicker stripping via the earth core then, although I'm not struck on the method.
It's how it's been done for eons, it ain't called twin & stripper for nothing.

I'm a convert though, especially with TP boards in a tight cupboard when you can't fully extend you're arms, CPC ends up looking like spaghetti, and you spend far too much time trying to get your 2mm* earth sleave on.


* anyone using more that 2mm, on anything smaller than 10mm², has quite simply lost their way in life.
 
For grey I still strip with a controlled knife between earth and another core but that's ridiculously hard with LSF.

And completely frowned upon by the "authorities" i.e. training colleges and the like, use a knife in any circumstances and they throw a fit!!

It's they way I have always done it, and prefer it above anything else.
 
And completely frowned upon by the "authorities" i.e. training colleges and the like, use a knife in any circumstances and they throw a fit!!

It's they way I have always done it, and prefer it above anything else.
Yeah, I know That's because, these days, they don't trust a trades person with a ring spanner, let alone a pen knife.
You do it the way you're taught...or always have done, with a bit of skill and judgement.
When I see the disgraceful state of many terminal positions.....

I wonder how they advise stripping LSF swa, these days? Have a job on designing a special tool for that.
 
Not with these...

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If I get a year out of a pair I'm happy, treat em as a consumable but they are worth their weight in gold.
got the identical one myself. Klein. still a pain with lsf. I do 2" at a time. also use a knife at times. (shh .H&E may be watching).
 

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