Abstract: A high temperature thermocouple wiring harness and connector system incorporating multiple individual thermocouple probes replaceably attached through connectors to the wiring harness. Each connector has a wiring harness portion, a removable probe portion, and a fastener for holding the two portions together. The wiring harness portion has a housing and two electrical conductors connected to the cable of the wiring harness and having contact surfaces outside the housing. The removable probe portion has a similar housing, a thermocouple probe mounted on the housing, and two electrical conductors attached to the thermocouple and having contact surfaces outside the housing. The fastener retains the connector portions together and insures that the contact surfaces of the conductors are held together. The fastener is formed of a material that has a coefficient of thermal expansion less than the coefficient of thermal expansion of the connector portions.

Abstract: An improved self-feeding cable stripper is provided which has a base, preferably divided into two parts clampable together about a cable opening extending up through the base. The stripper also includes a cylinder bearing external threads, the cylinder being secured to the top of the base and also having a central cable-receiving opening extending therethrough and aligned with the base opening. A fitting bearing internal threads is threadably secured over the cylinder, the threads being arranged such that when the fitting approximates the base, the threads disengage so that the fitting turns freely on the cylinder. A cutter is mounted in the fitting and extends into a central cable-receiving opening in the fitting, which opening is aligned with the cylinder opening. The cutter has an adjustable blade for cutting sheathing of a cable, clamped in the base and extending up through all of the openings, when the fitting is screwed down on the cylinder.