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#65 Electrical
Installation techniques
It is not possible to reuse the cut here
piece of copper wire that was
clamped in the spade connec-
tor, it is usually too damaged.
Cut the cable as close as pos-
sible to the connector, so you
have a fresh piece of cable with
intact insulation. If the insula-
tion against the spade connec- Wire stripping
tor is damaged, you will have to Remove a piece of insulation,
cut further. It is possible that the about 1 cm. You can do this by
cable has become too short, you using a wire stripper, there are
will first have to extend it with a several versions of this. The most
piece of cable of the same color important thing when stripping
or color combination. the insulation is that the copper
conductor is not damaged. The
trick is not to cut the insulation
off completely, to avoid touch-
ing the copper conductor. If the
copper conductor is partially cut,
its diameter will be smaller or, in
the worst case, it will break off.
So practice on an old piece of
cable of the same diameter be-
fore working on the good cable.
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