Just realized I've been stripping wire wrong for like 5 years

I was working on a panel change out last week in a old house in Portland and my Klein's kept nicking the copper on some 12 gauge. The senior guy I was with looked over and said "you're twisting the strippers instead of just pulling straight." I couldn't BELIEVE I never noticed I was doing it that way. Anyone else have a basic habit that took way too long to fix?

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ben40219d ago

Two years until someone showed me the right way to hold diagonal cutters.

linda30520d ago

Took me six years to learn that same trick on a 4-gauge run actually.