Just realized I've been stripping 12 gauge wire wrong for years

I was helping a new guy on a job in Boise and he asked why I always cut the insulation with my knife first. I told him that's how you get a clean strip. He just pulled out his strippers, made one squeeze, and had a perfect strip in half a second. My whole method added like 30 seconds per connection. How many hours have I wasted? What's the dumbest habit you had to unlearn?

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mason3614d ago

I used to twist wire nuts by hand until I saw a guy use a drill with a nut setter. My wrist would ache after a day of trimming out a house. Now I zip them on in a second and my hand doesn't feel like it's going to fall off.

jesse_barnes374d ago

Right? Game changer for sure. My old foreman thought it was cheating until his arthritis got bad.