Source for precut/stripped wire?

[Nitefly182]

Any of yall fine folks know of a good source for precut/stripped lengths of 22awg wire? I'm looking for a place that will let me enter my requirements and order ~1000+ pieces ready to drop onto boards.

[R.G.]

I wish for that every time I have to do wiring. There are places that do things like that, but most of them are in the Far East and only known to contract manufacturing houses.

My question is - do you plan to do this once, or many times? If you're going to do it once, rig up some fixtures to make you doing the cutting faster and easier, and buy a PTS-10 thermal stripper. If you're going to do it many times, call a contract manufacturer and get the whole mess done there.

[Nitefly182]

I'm really just looking for a way to make production at my small home shop a bit easier without adding an additional piece of equipment. That does seem like a pretty reasonably priced tool though. Combine it with Piotr Zapart's wire cutter device and you'd be in pretty good shape. Seems like there has to be a place that does this for less than massive factory quantities though.

https://www.hexefx.com/diy/utility/wirecut

[Ben N]

Like this? https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32753306082.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.b008487czfEMrm&s=p&algo_pvid=2592a39b-08a7-4587-bf1f-47f40ce1b1e8&algo_expid=2592a39b-08a7-4587-bf1f-47f40ce1b1e8-4&btsid=81be58b8-e2e8-47a0-9485-e3877062e561&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_8,searchweb201603_52

[Nitefly182]

Like this? https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32753306082.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.b008487czfEMrm&s=p&algo_pvid=2592a39b-08a7-4587-bf1f-47f40ce1b1e8&algo_expid=2592a39b-08a7-4587-bf1f-47f40ce1b1e8-4&btsid=81be58b8-e2e8-47a0-9485-e3877062e561&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_8,searchweb201603_52

Almost exactly like that except 5+ inches is real long per piece and it doesn't look like they have shorter options.

[R.G.]

Dang! Nice find, Ben.

I was thinking about something I did once. I took a (wooden) board and nailed in four finishing nails in close-together pairs, each pair separated by the unstripped length of the finished wire. The pairs had a distance apart of two times the stripping length. I wound a spiral of wire on the nails, then cut the wires between the narrow pairs. Result is two times the number of spiral turns of (closely) equal length wires. I then took the PTS10 and set its stripping gauge to the necessary stripping length and started insert-twist-pull-repeat and had a pile of equal length wires. It's mindless activity, suitable for listening to music to, but painless if you're in the right frame of mind. A hundred wires went quickly.

I'd probably do the same again for 1000 wires in batches of 100 if I couldn't find a deal like the aliexpress one Ben found.

@OP: One strategy might be to contact the seller at aliexpress and tell them to make you a price for 1000 each of custom lenghts. They just might take you on.

[willienillie]

Tinned would be nice.

[PRR]

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32975220079.html?spm=a2g0o.detail.1000014.33.7ea91cd3yiNTmI
'computer automatic wire stripping machine SWT508-SD and wire cutting machine for cable and peeling machine from 0.1 to 4.5mm2'
Will strip 0-15+mm each end of wires 1mm to 30 feet.
~$800 shipped, so not for poor hobbyists.
More toys: http://www.wztianlin.com/en/

[Nitefly182]

I just want to pay someone to run one of those machines for about 2 minutes for me 

[thetragichero]

man i have a TON of wire from organ salvage. wish i had kids so i could make them do this for me

[willienillie]

Organ salvage is probably the best reason to have kids.

[Ben N]

Sounds grim.

[duck_arse]

look around for a sheltered workshop. not sure they still call them that, but around here, way back when they did, you could get them to do runs of cutting, stripping and soldering [and assembly] of all manner of like items.

[aion]

I'd check Alibaba. I get wire assemblies (crimped and everything) from there, custom length, with tinned ends. There is a MOQ of 1000 per configuration - and they are extremely cost-effective. Seems like it'd be trivial for one of those manufacturers to just leave off the housing and strip/tin both ends.

There is a lot of crossover in manufacturers between Aliexpress and Alibaba, so someone on Aliexpress may be able to do custom work for you if you contact them - but Alibaba is more tailored for custom inquiries, so I'd start there if it was me.