Reddit reviews KNIPEX Tools - Automatic Wire Stripper, 10-24 AWG (1262180)

https://www.amazon.com/Knipex-1262180-Adjusting-Insulation-Strippers/dp/B003B8WB5U

One of the better ones for the price. Need adjusting every once in awhile.

https://www.amazon.com/Knipex-1240200-Adjusting-Insulation-Strippers/dp/B000R895YM

Is a lot better but double the price.

On a budget? Kleins side cutters are great.

https://www.amazon.com/Stripper-Electrical-Klein-Tools-11063W/dp/B00BC39YFQ

All of these have China clones on Aliexpress. I would avoid them as they dull too quickly or knick the wires.

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these are my favorite!

Completely not responding to OP's question, but these are so amazing : https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B003B8WB5U/ref=pe_3034960_236394800_TE_dp_i1

Sorry but I only buy high class strippers. Here she is in action. (NSFW)

Absolutely. I'd recommend the following if you are going to be sleeving existing PSU cables:

Tool | Price | Description
:--------|:--------:|--------:
MFC Molex Extractor | $10.99 | This is the most important tool you'll need, don't cheap out here. This one from MainFrame Customs is the best I've used
Side Cutters | $5 | You'll want these to cut the sleeving. It works way better than scissors


Now those are the basic tools, if that's all you want to get away with then be very careful and take your time while extracting the pins. Otherwise you'll want the following to re-crimp the broken pins.

Tool | Price | Description
:--------|:--------:|--------:
Crimping Tool | $23 | Great quality crimping tool, works for all PC pin types (atx goes in the larger slot :) )
Stripper | $41 | Great stripper, makes it very easy to get consistent strips, ideal for crimping, however you could use regular stippers
ATX female pins | $0.30 for 5 | Replacement pins

If you end up needing to get these tools, one benefit is you can cut your cables to the lengths you need which will make it very clean for cable management. Lastly, if you are going to use paracord and are not re-crimping the pins, I would recommend this Paracord threader. It'll keep the pins from tearing the paracord and make sleeving a lot easier. If you are going with PET Teleios Sleeve, you wont need it, as PET expands enough to make it easy to sleeve over the connector.

Thank you! To be honest, power cables are extremely easy to work with. Just need a decent pair of wire strippers.

That said, all thanks on the PSU sleeving goes to /u/pslate from [pslatecustoms](https://www.pslatecustoms.com/
).

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I use this stripping tool. It works great.

As far as the crimpers go I don't know. I bought the MDPC ones.

I bought this Knipex wire stripper.

It's a bit pricey but you can select your strip length, then put the wire in, pull the trigger and it strips it + pulls off the extra wire automatically. Being that I did every cable of the build it saved me a lot of time, and now it's a handy tool for the future.

Really you could use any wire stripper though, as long as it can strip the 16 or 18 AWG wire, whichever you would choose to use.

As for the crimper, something like this would work. Some people don't say to get the cheap ones, but I bought the one from lutro0 and just ended up having issues with it, meanwhile I know a few guys who had the cheap one and had no issues with it. Luck of the draw maybe, who knows.

Here you go!

I just got these in the middle of a huge aftermarket upfit. So nice. They can be a little hit or mis on 18ga until you figure out the angle of the wire. Saved me a lot of muscle aches from stripping 800 connections.

http://www.amazon.com/Knipex-1262180-Adjusting-Insulation-Strippers/dp/B003B8WB5U

Some things that have helped me.

There's a tool called a Knipex that works well for me for clipping the ends:

https://www.amazon.com/Knipex-1262180-Adjusting-Insulation-Strippers/dp/B003B8WB5U/

And then this thing is solid for bending the wires at 90 deg angles:

https://www.amazon.com/Eclipse-CP-301G-ProsKit-Precision-Stripper/dp/B005JVJDIA/

I like to cut a few reference wires for common lengths and keep them handy to measure out new wire against.

If you really kink up a wire, just replace it.