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How to strip very small wires?

Here's a good one for the PPOT Brain Trust: For a project I'm working on, I end up stripping the insulation off the ends of a whole bunch of small wires, roughly 22AWG. I'm using a pair of wire stripping pliers I picked up at Home Depot, and they ... work. But it's slow.



I picked up a pair of "auto strippers" from Amazon, and they work much better, as long as the wires are much bigger than the ones I need to strip. I mean, if you're doing 12AWG, these guys work great. I've tried a couple of variants on this theme, both of which claimed to be able to do as small as 22 or 24 gauge wire. One didn't work at all on the small stuff, and the other one actually broke the wire as often as it stripped it. No good.



So what do you guys do when you have to strip a bunch of tiny wires? Any tools that actually *work* for this job?

Thanks,
Dan
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