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From: Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com>
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Subject: slide on wire insulation?
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:00:48 -0900
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Hi, I'm doing some delicate rewiring inside some ancient aviation
simulator equipment. For the shorter soldered connections, the original
manufacturer used thin, bare solid wire, but had slid some kind of
strong, clear insulation over each wire, to keep the bare wire from
touching other wires. Kind of like heat shrink tubing, but thicker, and
not heat-shrinkable. I had to discard some of this slide-on insulation,
in the process of rewiring the ends of a few wires, and I'm wondering
where I can find more of it. I've been trying to search for it on the
Internet, but all the comes up is either heat-shrink tubing, or the huge
sleeves for protecting bundles of wires. Heat shrink tubing what not be
ideal as I'd have to put a lot of heat down into thick messes of wires.
Does somebody know the name of what I'm looking for, and where I could
order it?

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Christopher Howard