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Re: slide on wire insulation?

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On 25/11/2025 21:00, Christopher Howard wrote:
>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?
Silicon tubing maybe?

Hth, chris

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