A Short Introduction of Heat Shrink Tubing   Heat Shrink Tubing is a quite common tool in our daily life, as well as manufacturing industry. Here we'd like to a share a short introduction of this product.   1.History of Heat Shrink Tubing In late of 1950s, Mr. Paul Cook founded Raychem Corporation and begin to produce heat shrink polymer products. Then other company like 3M, Alpha Wire, DSG-Canusa,  LG, Sumitomo etc. also enter in this industry.   2.Production process of Heat Shrink Tubing. Compounding: The raw material ingredient granulated into small Masterbatch particle Extrusion: The small particle extruded into primary tubes Radiation: The primary tubes radiated by accelerator, make it has "memory" Expansion: The tubes expanded large than prinary tubes, usually 2 times or 3 times Packing: In spools or pre-cut into sma...

How to Choose the Right Heat Shrink Tubing? Heat Shrink Tubing is a quite common and convenient tool in our daily life, as it has vast application area, so it is quite important to choose the right heat shrink tubing to do the job. We hope the guide below can help your decision making process.   Step 1 Understand some basic knowledge of heat shrink tubing   Expand Diameter: The minimum inner diameter of heat shrink tubing as manufacturers supply. Recovered Diameter: The maximum inner diameter of the heat shrink tubing after heated Recovered Wall Thickness: The minimum tubing outer sheath wall thickness after heated Shrink Ratio: The maximum tubing diameter can be recovered, compared to the original supplied diameter. Generally speaking, it can be 2:1, 3:1, or 4:1 Shrink Temperature: The minimum Temperature you need to ...

How to Install Heat Shrink Tubing Products?   Just Following last articles, after we figure out the right Heat Shrink Tubing to do the job, the next step is how to install it.   Using Heat Shrink Tubing in Home DIYs   Step 1 Prepare right installation tool. The most commonly used one is Hot Air Gun, which usually has an LCD board to display the temperature. Or if we need to heat thicker wall heat shrink tubing, Butylene spray gun is recommended.   Step 2 Scissoring the heat shrink tubing at an appropriate length according to connector or wire covering area ( Please take the longitudinal shrinkage into consideration, so the tube length better has +10% tolerance) Please also ensure the tubing end does not has any burrs or sharp angles.   Step 3 Clean the connector or wire outer surface. If the conductor it is cold metal, pl...

Installation Tools for Expandable Cable Sleeving   Expandable Cable Sleeving is a most commonly used tool to keep wire, cable hose from abrasion and outer damage. As it most supplied by larger reels, when we use it and precut into small lengths, we could not use scissors as the sleeving end will get loose. Generally speaking, special instattion tools are need in this situation.   1.Hand Held Hot Knife   used in small duty labor, such as home decoration and office cabling, which is most economic   2.Bench Mount Hot Knife   used in medium duty labor, such as wire harness manufacturing facility   3.Professional Thermocutter   Used in large scale of work environment, where production efficiency is needed....

Introduction of Braided Sleeving   Braided Sleeving, also be called Expandable Sleeving, it has great performance of abrasion resistance, elasticity, fire resistance and mechanical protection, which is widely used in optical fibers, computer cables, HDMI cables, DVI cables, power cables, and inner wiring  for automotives, airplanes, home appliances, locomotive etc.   Here we will introduce it from two aspects   1.The Formation Raw Material of Braided Sleeving   PET(Polyethylene Terephthalate): Operate at -50℃-+150℃ (-58°F -302°F) Nylon (Polyamide 6.6): -60℃-+160℃ (-76°F -320°F) PBT(polybutylene Terephthalate): -50℃-+150℃ (-58°F -302°F) Nomex: -60℃-+240℃. Strong mechanical toughness, non-combustible, acid and alkali resistant, light weight. Bare Copper & Tinned Copper: ...