[sdiy] Heat shrink tubing driving me crazy....

[Barry Klein]

I have one of those pressure-filled lighters with the variable flame, that I
picked up from a swap meet for like $5.  It is great for this sort of thing
- like for heatshrink on your sprinkler setup outside the house...  Also
good for hot melt glue fixing things.  I also have one of the (orange)
commercial heat guns.  The gun is kind of weird in that it seems the heat
does not come straight out of the thing.  I always have to play with its
orientation to finally get the heatshrink to shrink.  At work we have a
different brand with a rotating knob for temperature that works much better.
You can use this to remove IC's and things from pc boards.

Barry


-----Original Message-----
From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl
[mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of jure zitnik
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 11:49 PM
To: John L Marshall
Cc: SDIY
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Heat shrink tubing driving me crazy....

why is the lighter method not preferred? i always use it and it works
perfectly... you just need to pass the lighter under the heatshrink a
few times and it's done.

jure

On Dec 21, 2007 2:26 AM, John L Marshall <j.l.marshall at comcast.net> wrote:
> There used to be dilator tubing. It was stored dilated in a fluid. It
shrank
> when it dried. The tubing was especially useful in heat sensitive areas. I
> did a quick google search and didn't find anything.
>
> Take care,
> John
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> www.antenna-farm.com
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