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New Ways to Use Heat Shrink Braided Sleeving
Dec 10 , 2021
If you're into any type of DIY, you've certainly heard about heat shrink braided sleeving, and probably know that it's the all-purpose wonder to turn to for anything wire or cable-related. Thanks to its customized fit and resistance to moisture and chemicals, fabric heat shrink tubing is able to seal wire splices, harness cables together for easy organization, color-code cords so you can tell them apart, providing much-needed strain relief to cable connectors, and even serve as an adhesive-free label on wires.
As you can imagine, heat shrink braided sleeving is most popular with, and widely used by, the technical crowd. But let's not limit ourselves; after all, fabric heat shrink tubing has found many uses in the automotive world as well. Custom car and motorcycle enthusiasts regularly use it to protect the wiring of aftermarket additions and employed as a cable and hose overlay, heat shrink braided sleeving can add a professional look and colorful "pop" to your engine bay.
So today, we will talk use the heat-shrinkable braided sleeving DIY some funny stuff.
Tool Handle Grips
What do you do when your hand tools lose their dipped-plastic handle coating and leave you with uncomfortable bare metal? Whatever you do, don't throw them away. Heat-shrinkable braided sleeving can easily be shrunk around tool handles to provide comfortable grips that you'll hardly be able to tell apart from the originals. To ensure that they won't budge, we recommend using adhesive-lined heat shrink, which has an interior coating of extremely strong glue that melts when heat is applied and cools to a long-lasting bond after shrinking is complete.
Repair Your Glasses
What do you do when the arm of your eyeglasses snaps? Don't worry, because an extremely effective repair is only seconds away. Just push the broken ends back together, slip a piece of heat-shrinkable braided sleeving around them, and shrink it to size. The resulting splice may not be a permanent fix, but it will leave your glasses solid enough to wear comfortably.
Heat Shrink End Caps on Furniture
The most obvious use for fabric heat shrink tubing end caps is to protect wire splices from moisture and corrosion, and also you could use them to seal the feet of your furniture and protect your floors.
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