Stripping Wire for New Outlet Installation

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So the next step here is to strip this, expose the lead wires attached to the hot wire and the neutral and the ground wire to the secondary set of screws and run the wire through the wall. So now we are stripping this wire. I just used some wire cutters and likely clipped around the outside edge. I pulled off this protective plastic coating. We’ve got our three wires in here. The black wire is the hot wire, white is neutral and just the plain copper wire is your ground. In general, that is probably actually not enough. You need probably two inches of wire exposed so that you are not struggling trying to work with the wires and bending them around. So when you want to strip these wires. You should get some wire strippers for these. These needle nose pliers happen to have a couple of circular notches in them. That is probably hard to see but your general wire strippers will have a series of different circles with little almost wire cutter blade inside the circle. So you want to fit that around the wire and clench tightly and just turn your wire strippers around. Once it is cut all the way through, all the way around, you should just be able to grab a hold of it with the plier part and pull it off. With this particular type of outlet you are going to be hooking to the screws. There are types of outlets that are not inline outlets that you can just stick the wires right in the holes in the back. This one we are going to wrap around those screws. So I always take a pair of needle nose pliers and turn the wire till it will half loop on the end and will loop this around this screw and tighten this screw down.

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