Along with duct tape and nylon cable ties, heat shrink tubing is an essential element in the engineer’s toolkit as well as manufacturing, production, and repair. It’s used for covering and protecting ...

Hand grips on tools wear out quickly with heavy use, but firefighter blog VentEnterSearch offers up an easy way to create a new grip or repair an old one using wire and heat-shrink tubing. By wrapping ...

Raychem URHT heat-shrinkable tubing is a black, flame-retardant, cross-linked polyolefin with an 8:1 shrink ratio, making it suitable for applications where tubing must conform to oddly shaped ...

For almost 60 years heat shrink materials have been known and commercially available. Most people are familiar with “shrink wrap”, and a lot of us have even used heat shrinkable tubing for repairs on ...

Hello, fellow Lifehackers! Time for another MacGyver Challenge. What's a MacGyver Challenge, you ask? Simple. We give you an object and you show us what cool things you can do with it. Our editors ...

July 1, 2005, Stamford, CT — DYMO Corporation, a worldwide leader in the development of industrial identification solutions, announces new heat shrinkable tubing designed to work in their award ...

Specialty plastics extruder Pexco LLC acquired Insultab Inc., a manufacturer of heat-shrinkable and non-shrink tubing products, to expand its capabilities and reach new markets. Based in Woburn, Mass.

Heat shrink tubing, rarely referred to simply as “HST” even in our acronym-intensive world, is made of cross-linked polymers and is primarily used to cover and protect wire splices. EDN and Planet ...

[Boylei] shows that those little LED filament strips make great freeze-frame blaster shots in a space battle diorama. That’s neat and all, but what we really want to highlight is a simple tip [Boylei] ...