Thomas & Betts 368-CK Stripping Tool

The 368-CK strips cable from #1 AWG all the way up to 1,000 kcmil. That covers feeder and service-entrance conductors, not small branch-circuit wire. If you're stripping #12 or #14 THHN for receptacles and lighting, this is the wrong tool, you want a small combination stripper. The 368-CK earns its place on jobs where you're terminating large aluminum or copper feeders into lugs and panels.

No. The 368-CK is not RoHS compliant. If your facility or your customer's spec requires RoHS-compliant tooling on the job, this one will not satisfy that requirement and you'll need to source against that spec. Worth settling before a government or institutional submittal goes in, because it's the kind of line item that comes back on a compliance review.

Manual, no power source and no hydraulic head. It's a hand tool with a palm grip handle, so there's nothing to charge, no dies to match, and nothing extra to order to make it work. For an electrician who strips large cable occasionally rather than all day, that's the whole appeal, it lives in the bag and works cold.

It measures 7.5 inches in length, so it's a one-hand tool you can bring into a gutter or pull box rather than a bench-only stripper. The palm grip means your hand wraps over the top of the tool, which is what lets you push through jacket on a heavy conductor without a second hand for leverage. Tight vertical wireways are still tight, but 7.5 inches is short enough to get in beside a bundle.

Stripping only. The tool's function is stripping cable, not cutting or crimping, so you'll still need a cable cutter to size the conductor and a crimper or lug wrench to terminate it. Plan the kit accordingly if you're outfitting a truck for feeder terminations.

Sold each. One tool is one order, so a contractor buying a single stripper for a truck gets exactly that. Thomas & Betts packs them ten to an outer carton, which is what matters if you're a distributor or an MRO storeroom buying by the case rather than by the piece.

Steel construction. That's the material you want on a tool that has to bite through the jacket on conductors up to 1,000 kcmil, since the working edge takes real force on every pass. The orange handle is a practical detail on a jobsite too, it stands out in a bag of black-handled hand tools and in the bottom of a pull box.

Order it as Thomas & Betts 368-CK. That's the manufacturer part number and there's only one configuration, no handing, no size options, no finish to pick. One number covers it.