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  slide on wire insulation? Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> - 2025-11-25 12:00 -0900
    Re: slide on wire insulation? Chris Deuchar <chrisnd@privacy.net> - 2025-11-25 22:39 +0000
      Re: slide on wire insulation? bp@www.zefox.net - 2025-11-25 22:56 +0000

#6618 — slide on wire insulation?

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?

-- 
Christopher Howard

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#6619

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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#6620

Chris Deuchar <chrisnd@privacy.net> wrote:
> 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?

I'd guess teflon spaghetti tubing. McMaster-Carr was the first websearch
hit I got, but there are lots more.

hth,

bob prohaska

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