Method for trimming cable shield

A method for trimming a shield in an unjacketed portion of a cable, the shield having first and second exposed shield portions connected by a third exposed shield portion, the method comprising:

• placing the first exposed shield portion inside a first hole having a hole edge;
• placing the second exposed shield portion inside a second hole;
• moving the second exposed shield portion toward the first exposed shield portion in a manner that causes the third exposed shield portion to bunch radially outward around an entire periphery of the shield;
• disconnecting the third exposed shield portion from the first exposed shield portion using the hole edge of the first hole while the third exposed shield portion is bunched radially outward and the second exposed shield portion is not moving toward the first exposed shield portion;
• moving the first exposed shield portion away from the second exposed shield portion while the third exposed shield portion is being pinched;
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• gripping a jacketed portion of the cable between opposed cable gripper fingers of a cable gripper by closing the cable gripper fingers, wherein the cable gripper fingers do not move during moving the second exposed shield portion toward the first exposed shield portion.

A method for trimming a shield of a shielded cable, comprising:

• (a) placing an unjacketed portion of a shielded cable so that an exposed shield passes through a first hole that intersects a first surface at a hole edge and through a second hole that intersects a second surface that confronts the first surface, such that the unjacketed portion projects out of the second hole;
• (b) after completion of step (a), gripping a jacketed portion of the shielded cable;
• (c) moving the second hole away from the first hole while the gripped jacketed portion does not move;
• (d) after completion of step (c), gripping a portion of the exposed shield that projects out of the second hole;
• (e) while the gripped jacketed portion of the shielded cable is stationary, pinching the exposed shield portion by moving the gripped portion of the exposed shield in a first direction until a bunched portion of the exposed shield is pinched between the first and second surfaces;
• (f) after completion of step (e) and while the bunched portion of the exposed shield is pinched between the first and second surfaces, moving the jacketed portion of the shielded cable in the first direction so that a ire portion of the exposed shield that was inside the first hole tears away along the hole edge from the bunched portion of the shield.