CATV Wire Stripper

We finally got a hand tool more designed for us geeks. It's a CATV wire stripper. Being a dotcom, we have plenty of use for a Cat5 wire stripper... but we also have cable modems and CATV around the building as well.

What really makes me think I need one of these for home, though, is that it also has a cartridge included to strip both RG6 / RG59 cable (cable TV and antenna cable), which I've had to do many times and haven't had much luck with. With this one, you just put a tooth on either side of the cable, spin it a few times, then let the stripped end show. It really makes it pretty simple.

As you can see from the picture to the left, we're actually pretty wired at the office already. I don't think we'll need to run a ton more Cat5, but now I could run a Cable TV wire to my desk and install that TV tuner card... or maybe not. I doubt that'd be conductive to getting much work done.