Blast - How to use wire stripper?

[Passive101]

I'm pretty sure it is the triangle shaped notch on my bottle opener/can opener, but I am unsure as to how to use it properly.

[Zack]

Its not very effective, but it you stick the wire and spin it out the sharpened part and then pull, the sheathing should come off.  I just use the knife blade as its a lot quicker, but hey if its there use it.

[Passive101]

I think i have some left over speaker wire laying around. I'll have to give that a try. Thanks for the info.

[J-sews]

Can't say as I've ever tried it myself.

[Anthony]

It's pretty awkward and not really sharp enough to use effectively.  I just use the wire cutters to cut the sheathing.

I haven't tried it, but the wire stripping notch should work great with a firesteel though.

[genevabuck]

I've used the wire stripper a couple of times.  It doesn't work great, but it does work.  The groove actually catches niclely on certain guages of wire. 

[gafftapegreenia]

It works the best on solid wire, especially all the 12 and 14 gauge romex running through most modern homes. It also works well on scraping off the nylon-thermoplastic of THHN.

However for stranded wire I've found the best option is to use the hard wire cutter notch-which itself doesn't work that great on solid wire.

So yea, depends on what you are stripping.