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I *do not* recommend using anything BUT a heat gun to shrink the tubing. All
of the suggestions
sound like potential damaging to other components.

For info on my fav, the Alpha Fit Gun-3:

www.alphawire.com

click on product catalog, go to page 125. Then, click on the Distributors
tag on the left. Type in your state
and look at the choices.

It is true recent kits didn't inclue heat shrink on the panel wire. But I
always use it on pots AND switches
on assembled modules. Look for more heat shrink in future kits! The size I
use is 3/32" polyfin 2:1 shrink.

Side note: When I first was doing MOTM system design, I got a legal pad and
wrote across the top of the page:
WHAT BOB MOOG DIDN"T HAVE.

#1 thing I thought of: heat-shrink tubing!

Paul S.

Considering the relatively small amount of heat-gunning we need with these
kits, if you're just doing MOTM and the odd DIY project, I think the Radio
Shack "baby" heat gun is just fine. It's basically a Bic lighter without the
wheel as a fuel source, encased and feeding a heating element. You pull a
trigger and the element ignites and glows. It comes with an attachable
shield, and you can easily control it. I've never scorched anything with it;
just shrunk the tubing.

And it's really cheap.

The soldering iron is a pretty bad idea. If only once you slip, you may burn
right through the insulation of an adjoining wire, or leave an unattractive
melt-groove in a pot or jack. If you slip with the gun, no big deal.

Maybe someday I'll be fancy like Paul and get an Alpha-Fit, but for now I'll
save those pennies for another module ;)

David.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Schreiber [mailto:synth1@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 10:14 PM
> To: MOTM listserv
> Subject: [motm] Heat Shrink
>
>
> I *do not* recommend using anything BUT a heat gun to shrink the
> tubing. All
> of the suggestions
> sound like potential damaging to other components.
>
> For info on my fav, the Alpha Fit Gun-3:
>
> www.alphawire.com
>
> click on product catalog, go to page 125. Then, click on the Distributors
> tag on the left. Type in your state
> and look at the choices.
>
> It is true recent kits didn't inclue heat shrink on the panel wire. But I
> always use it on pots AND switches
> on assembled modules. Look for more heat shrink in future kits! The size I
> use is 3/32" polyfin 2:1 shrink.
>
> Side note: When I first was doing MOTM system design, I got a
> legal pad and
> wrote across the top of the page:
> WHAT BOB MOOG DIDN"T HAVE.
>
> #1 thing I thought of: heat-shrink tubing!
>
> Paul S.
>
>
>
>
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