K-6 Flat Drop Cable Stripper

• One squeeze opens the cable: the blades slit the jacket along both edges and cut the strength members, so the two jacket halves peel away and the fiber unit sits exposed — no knife work against the fiber, no nicks
• Sized for the standard FTTH flat drop cable — 3.1 mm × 2.0 mm, with FRP or steel strength members
• A graduated scale on the fiber support sets the strip length before you close the tool — every drop stripped to the same length, ready for the connector or the splice
• Rubber-covered cushion handles — non-slip in the hand and easy on it through a full day of drop installations
• Compact steel body — 114 mm, 150 g — rides in the pouch next to the cleaver and the precision stripper
• Private labeling made to your requirements — labels with your logo, part numbers and barcodes on the inner boxes and outer cartons, ready for your warehouse

A flat drop cable is not a small round cable. The fiber unit runs down the centre of a flat jacket, and a strength member — an FRP rod or a steel wire — is moulded into each edge. That flat profile is what lets the cable run neatly down a wall and into the home, but it also means a round-cable stripper cannot open it, and a knife worked along the edges is one slip away from the fiber. The K-6 is shaped around the cable instead: the oval channel in the head takes the flat profile as it is, and the blades meet the jacket at its two edges, where the strength members sit.

Lay the cable flat in the channel, with the end set to the length you want stripped, and close the handles. The blades slit the jacket lengthwise along both edges and cut through the strength members in the same squeeze. Draw the tool along the cable and the two jacket halves part and peel away, leaving the central fiber unit exposed along the stripped length — the blades travel in the jacket edges, never across the fiber, so the glass comes out unmarked.

The black strip between the handles is the fiber support, and it carries a graduated scale. Set the cable end against the scale before you close the tool and every termination is stripped to the same length — the length your connector or splice closure asks for, repeated all day without measuring twice. In the FTTH drop sequence the K-6 is the first tool on the cable: jacket off here, then a precision three-hole stripper takes the 250 µm coating off the exposed fiber, and only then is the fiber cleaned and cleaved, ready for the splice or the field connector.

Seat the cable flat and fully in the channel before you squeeze — a twisted cable slits off-centre. Close the handles in one firm motion and pull steadily; if a strength member resists, close the tool again rather than forcing the pull. Brush jacket dust out of the channel after a session, and keep the blades for drop cable only — cutting wire or armored cable with them will notch the edges. Store the tool closed, and put stripped glass offcuts in the sharps bin, not on the bench.

• One K-6 flat drop cable stripper — dark green rubber-covered handles