stripping insulation from wire thin as babys hair

any tips on striping insulation from chinese wire that is as fine a babys hair??? yeah,i know i will not buy anymore chinese E36 M3.

I use a lighter to catch it on fire and then pull it off with my fingers in a fast motion. Maybe not the safest way but Ive been doing it for years

You got my attention with the first word of your title, but my interest fell off rapidly with every word that followed.

lol

At work, we routinely strip 48 gauge wire by hand with 0.0015" thick polyimide insulation. A sharp scalpel and a microscope seems to be the trick. Along with the 3 month training period!

We tried chemical strippers but they have too large of a taper zone.

I am working on a water cooled calmp and hitting it with fire so to speak. If you are talking automotive wire rather than real baby thin stuff, I would take a pair of side cutters, drill a hole with the exact size of the wire, clamp the wire and hit it with a high heat source like a butane lighter.

A lot of this game depends on what the insulation is.

I've made a stripper from a single edge razor blade w/ a little nick in the edge and a piece of something hard - I use the granite flat in the machine shop. It's a trial and error thing, so have extra wire.

They make thermal wire strippers for just this application. Imagine two soldering irons spring clipped together with the chisel tips turned sideways so they touch.

They are not inexpensive new but certainly out there used if you look.

Measure the wire to make sure it's the right gauge. Seriously, I've had some 14 gauge wire that was more like 18 gauge wire. They love hiding it in places like those cheap power cords you get with your cheap laptop replacement chargers, but I've had it on a spool, too.

where I worked we used something like this … (we had some human hair thick wire to strip/solder)

not this particular one, but similar …it had different cutting heads for different size of wire

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wire-Stripper-Teledyne-Kinetics-Stripall-Electrical-Thermal-Hot-Knife-Blade-Tool-/231186242283?nma=true&si=RNSq6UusFCSfq%252FjzwyiaQDvwfAQ%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

side question: is a babies hair thinner then an adults hair?