On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 1:32 AM, Paul Koning <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a hand tool from OK Tools (looks a bit like a coil alignment tool). Ditto. Wrap one end, unwrap the other. I've never bothered to get a more advanced wire wrap tool. I even made a couple of DEC backplanes using it. > It works fine. It also has a wire strip blade built into the handle, which is > by far the best tool for stripping wrap wire. (Typical wire strippers don't > handle wire that thin, and the tip of a soldering iron won't do the job either > because the insulation is heat resistant.) But I will disagree with you there. The best tool in my experience is a hand rotary wire stripper (which spins a pair of blades around the wire, doing a very clean cut through the insulation. A close second is the little hand stripper made by CK tools, designed for wire wrap wire. Incidentally, since the insulation is heat-resistant and the wire takes solder very easily, I find wire wrap wire to be the best thing (soldered in place) to repair or modify PCBs. -tony
