Semi-Automatic Multi-Core Cable Stripping and Tinning Machine WM-4718

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The WM-4718 is a semi-automatic benchtop machine that takes one pre-cut multi-core cable end at a time, removes the outer jacket, strips and twists the inner core wires and dips them in the solder pot in a single operator-loaded cycle. It handles single core wires from 0.8 to 3.0 mm diameter with a jacket strip of 20 mm and up, twists the cores up to 15 mm, and runs 500 pieces per hour. The machine measures 650 x 850 x 1,250 mm and weighs 95 kg on a wheeled frame, drawing 700 W from a single-phase 220 V supply.

Specifications

Key features

• One operator-loaded cycle covers jacket removal, core stripping, core twisting and solder dipping — the four steps a bench worker otherwise does with a hand stripper and a hand-held pot
• Adjustable tin dipping depth, so the solder stops where the drawing says it stops instead of wicking up under the core insulation
• Core wires are twisted before the dip, so strands enter the solder closed and come out as one wetted pin rather than a splayed brush
• Digital solder pot temperature controller holds the bath at the setpoint through the shift — the variable that decides whether joint after joint looks the same
• 95 kg on castors and a 650 mm footprint — it rolls to wherever the cable is, and needs only a 220 V outlet and shop air
• Free sample test — send 2–3 meters of your cable, we run it on this machine and send you the video before you order

What it processes

• Multi-core appliance, control and signal cable prepared for solder or screw-terminal assembly in small and medium batches
• Prototype, pilot and service-part runs where an automatic line cannot be justified but hand tinning is too inconsistent
• Repair and rework benches that need production-grade tinned ends without a production-grade machine
• Job shops running many different multi-core cable types in short batches, changing setup several times a day

Suited for: multi-core sheathed cable that arrives already cut, whose inner cores must come out stripped, twisted and tinned to a repeatable depth — at bench volumes, one end at a time, on a 95 kg machine that fits beside the assembly table. Not suited for: production volume — at 500 pieces per hour this is a bench machine, and if you are running thousands of leads a shift the WM-4715 automatic sheathed cable double-end twisting and tinning machine does both ends from the reel at 2,000–5,000 pcs/h on OD 3.0–8.0 mm cable. It also does not cut cable to length; for automatic cutting plus both ends stripped and tinned in one pass on cable under Ø8 mm, the WM-4706S automatic multicore cable cutting, stripping and two-end tinning machine is the smaller automatic option. And if your work is loose discrete wires rather than jacketed cable, the WM-4706W automatic multiple-wire stripping, twisting and tinning machine takes up to ten separate 18–28 AWG wires side by side. And if the cores have to end in a crimped terminal rather than a tinned tip, the WM-3226 semi-automatic core wire stripping and crimping machine is the same operator-loaded bench format — jacket opened beforehand, then 1 to 12 cores cut, stripped 1–7 mm and crimped with reel-fed terminals at 700–800 pcs/h on 6-core cable.

Most workshops that tin multi-core cable by hand are not losing money on the dipping — they are losing it on the spread. A hand-held pot with no depth stop gives you a different tin length on every core, and once the solder wicks under the insulation the end is scrap. This machine’s answer is a fixed geometry: the cable is clamped in one position, the blades strip to a set value, the cores are twisted before they touch the bath, and the dip depth is set on the machine rather than in the operator’s wrist. What you give up is throughput; what you get back is that the hundredth end looks like the first.

Buying a benchtop machine is also the cheap way to find out whether your cable behaves. Jacket hardness, core lay and insulation type decide how cleanly cores separate — send 2–3 meters of your actual cable and we will run it on this machine and send you the video of the stripped, twisted, tinned ends before you commit to anything.