Uh oh I’ll mess another Arduino header rather than a finger … 
@BlackDeath, let’s hope no nerve got injured and it will heal OK.
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I just want to say that the auto strippers are easily the best bit of kit you can buy for speed. Seriously, if you find yourself making builds with a bunch of wires like i do, its a no brainer. You might be thinking to yourself: “sure of course it will save me time”. No, you dont get it, its a huge dang difference and was a game changer for me. 
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Just push the headders back over the pin and it will be fine.
I’m not really a fan of the model you link to, but maybe that specific one is better than the ones I’ve tested. I currently find this style the most reliable:
but I know people swear that this non-automatic style is vastly superior to everything else if you’re stripping more than like one wire…
(random screenshots from banggood, haven’t tested these specific brands)
(otoh, I’ve practiced enough with side cutters over the years that I can get by without special tools. razor blades sound a bit scary, though. if you have a 3D printer and no other stripping tool, maybe print a few of these?)
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I use the second type when i can find them! ( have used that style reliably for 30 years+) … my son uses the second type and I find them so-so…
I have gathered all 3 over the years and a squeezy micro one. I had to after wearing too big a groove in my teeth
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And fergoshsakes work that blade AWAY from you not TOWARDS.
(Says the guy with the scar on his wrist from where an Exacto knife sliced it open)
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New builds would not be complete without magic smoke and something truly stupid. Was building the GRR and wasnt getting any sound. Lights reacted but nothin. checks the connection to the daughter board
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Almost like me missing the resistors off the outputs on the OBA…
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Cool, wireless! 
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Found 'em. After ordering more, of course. But that’s okay because I just learned they’re out of production.
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Ah. Yeah. They must have been in the same place I left my 10k precision resistors.
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I have 4 strips of 220ohm, every time i need some they vanish out of existence from the draw. They have less chance now though as every value has it’s own draw!
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Ah, an unused line on my Bounce Bounce … stripboard between the 2 TL074s, hop !
I delete, modify and print.
At the end of the construction a little surprise awaited me when I wanted to insert the chips.
impossible !
I started by filing the 2 chips but I started to see a little bit of metal, and it was not enough, I also filed a socket a little and made an English bus 
I tested against short circuits and everything is fine.
…for the moment not yet tested the module, but I was happy to have found a solution because I really did not want to desolder to shift a line.
Now I know that we must leave a space between 2 chips
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Thought this was some obscure electronics term at first
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That’s a great solution 
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LOL… I was with you there
@Dud Needs painted Red.
for me or for my “double english bus chip” 
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