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From: jack@boring.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: How to fab One-Of-A-Kind systems?
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 13:04:22 EDT
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About tools: I find that it doesn't make much of a difference
whether you use an electric gun or a hand-operated one (as long
as it's good quality), only the electrical guns produce a wrap of
a more constant quality.

Since I seem to spend most of the time (50%??) cutting the wire
to the right length and stripping it, I tried a lot of different
tools for that. The one I like best is a very simple thing (costs
about $10, I guess), shaped like this:

		 ||      \
==========================
		cut   strip
It has a very nice grip, strips to the right length, hardly ever fails
to strip the wire, and the same tool is usable with a wide variety
of wire gauges. I haven't got it near at hand, but I can lookup the
mfg/type, if anyone is interested.

Isn't it great that a $10 tool can outperform various $50-$200(really!)
competitors........
-- 
	Jack Jansen, jack@mcvax.UUCP
	The shell is my oyster.