MiniLite-Strip™ Fiber Optic stripper is a hand-held stripper designed to cut and strip select fiber optical cables. The larger strip hole is to strip the outer jacket from 3mm cables. The inner, smaller hole is engineered and precision-ground to remove the buffer coatings, up to 900 microns, to expose the 125 and 140 micron diameter (core + cladding) fibers. This tool is used in preparation for mechanical terminating and fusion splicing connectors to fiber cables.