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I find it much easier to use the hole for the next smallest gauge with LIGHT preasure, just enough to break the outer sheath. Then I move up to the larger size your supposed to use to pull it off. This way I rarely lose any wire strands.
So, for 12 gauge wire, I start with the 14 gauge hole on the stripper tool. Using light preasure I break the outer coating, then movie up to the 12 gauge hole to pull it off, works great.
Oh yeah, I also twist the bare wires with my fingers before inserting them into the wire terminal on the AVR.
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Hutzal, what are you using for banana plugs ? There are a number of good suppliers in the US but I haven't found any good ones up here in Canada yet.
I need to rewire my system some time soon and I really don't want to touch anything until I at least have bananas on the receiver end of the speaker cables.
I got all my video cables and interconnects (for audio) from monoprice.com. IF you are ordering enough items, even with the shipping, the cables and banana's are cheaper than buying from a retail store (by over 200%).
for $1.39/pair (for 20 pairs), you just simply can't do better than that anywhere in canada, even with shipping, similar plugs in calgary are selling from $6/pair.
With shipping, it ends up being $1.70/pair (for 20 pairs) USD to Calgary. Which is $1.98 CAD (estimated) which ends up being around $40 Canadian for 20 pairs.
20 pairs in calgary at $5/pair will end up being $106 CAD...no thanks!
EDIT: Forgot to mention that I paid $15 duty on a $190 order.
-Hutz
Last edited by Hutzal; 03/19/07 01:53 PM.
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I'll second the monoprice.com suggestion. I recently ordered a couple of AV cables and about a dozen pairs of banana plugs. My total was like $40. It would have been over $150 if I'd purchased the same stuff at the local big-box electronics store. I will be doing a lot of my 'nuts-and-bolts' shopping at monoprice from now on! I purchased the other type of banana plugs, the ones with compression fittings. They seem to work well and look great, although it took me a few tries to figure out how best to attach the speaker wire to them! ![](/boards/images/graemlins/blush.gif)
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Real men use wire cutters to strip wire. ![](/boards/images/graemlins/wink.gif)
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Real, real men use their teeth.
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I learned to not use my teeth when I was rewiring the phone jack in my apartment in college. Everything was going fine until my future wife decided to call... ![](/boards/images/graemlins/shocked.gif)
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I learned to not use my teeth when I was rewiring the phone jack in my apartment in college. Everything was going fine until my future wife decided to call...
Shocking! ![](/boards/images/graemlins/grin.gif)
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Real, real, men ask their future wives to call when they're stripping wire with their teeth. ![](/boards/images/graemlins/smile.gif) Also they will replace outlets and light switches without shutting off the breaker first. (I replaced a couple switches last week and didn't bother with the breaker... Only got shocked once or twice. Kinda fun, actually, but I'm strange that way.)
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Careful, or you could end up looking like this: ![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v481/MarkSJohnson/JacobNapoleon1.jpg)
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Agreed, Peter, it is fun in a sick masochistic sort of way. I did it a few times when i was wiring the basement, even a couple of breakers in the panel box with the main breaker still on...those i was pretty damn careful on. Possibly the stupidest thing i accomplished though was giving myself a hell of a shock when the electrical inspector was over to check that the wiring i had done was up to code...."yes you can just ignore these couple of wires hanging from the roof. They are stapled up there and i haven't bothered to pull them down yet because i was thinking i might use the same run to wire something else in." As i grab the collection of wires with my hand to prove to him that they weren't hot i got a very nice jolt. He just looked at me and said, "you might want to put a marrette on that." Tough to get more bone-headed than that. ![](/boards/images/graemlins/blush.gif)
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