Abstract: A wire stripper has a blade (33) projecting from a carrier (35) mounted in a handle (56). A hook-shaped wire clam (45) is slidably mounted in the handle and is spring-urged towards a position where a wire is pressed by the clamp on to the blade. The clamp (45) may be turned relative to the blade (35) about the axis of the handle between first and second positions when the blade performs a circumferential cut around a held wire or a longitudinal cut along a held wire, respectively. The clamp (45) may be turned through an acute angle from the first position to a third position where the blade (33) performs a helical cut along a held wire. A spring biases the clamp to the first position, or selectively to the third position.

Abstract: A tool for preparing the end portion of a co-axial cable has a blade which may pivot between two limiting positions, in one of which the cutting edge of the blade lies across a cable-receiving opening to a greater extent than in the other of which positions. On inserting a co-axial cable through the opening and rotating the tool around the cable in one sense, the blade is caused to move to one limiting position so effecting one depth of cut, but on rotating the tool in the other sense around the cable, the blade is caused to move to the other limiting position so effecting a different depth of cut. In this way, the different layers of the cable may be severed and removed.