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Wire WrappingA practical guide

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30AWG wire on 250m reel Wire wrapping tool with integral insulation stripper

Insulation stripper

Variety of colours, ranging from £4.50 - £10

Tool end detail

Stripped wire feeds in here

Pin to wrap locates in centre hole

Cut wire to length and feed end through hole in stripper

Keeping wire straight makes this easier

Costs from £8.77 upwards

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Feed approx 25mm (1 inch) through Press the wire towards the rivet to cut into insulation

With insulation cut, pull the tool away gently

Wire stripped of insulation

Discarded insulationHold wire firmly

You will damage the stripper if wire insulation is not fully inserted

Feed stripped wire into the end of the wrapping tool

Not into the centre hole, offset it towards the groove

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Wire should feed along the groove Feed wire until insulation enters the tool mouth

Long wire will exceed the groove depthWire will appear here

Hold wire in tool whilst taking it to the job

Feed pin into the centre hole

Turn the tool in a continuous clockwise rotation

Observe the wire reducing in the groove Gold Standard

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Other end of tool unwraps the wire

Turn tool anti-clockwise

Loosened wire should withdraw with the tool

Do not re-use wrapped wire, discard it

Adjacent pins can be connected together

Strip the wire to twice normal length

Wrap the wire onto the pin using < half the wire length

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Wrap the remaining wire onto the second pin To remove reverse the sequence & unwrap

Discard the unwrapped wire

Pins can be wrapped and unwrapped several times

That’s it.

You’ve now become a

Wrapper!

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