Heat shrink tubing is great stuff. I have been using it for over 55 years and found so many uses for it. A couple of examples besides the obvious ones are: during Sandy I had a lot of broken ceramic insulators on my home made ladder line. Just slid heat shrink over the broken section and they were as new again. I have a 110 year old beautiful Marconi magnetic detector that had the soft iron wire on it broken in one spot. Again, a piece of right size heat shrink tubing over it and it looks like new. Thankfully, I have enough of the stuff in all sorts of sizes that I will never run out. 73 – Mike

Mike B. Feher, N4FS

89 Arnold Blvd.

Howell NJ 07731

848-245-9115

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of W2HX
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2022 4:59 PM
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Subject: [MRCA] heat shrink tip

Hi all,

I am sure many of us have coax cables routing RF around our shacks. Some of us have antenna/radio switches to keep things organized. I was using some brother p-touch labels on the coax to identify them. But the labels eventually would unglue and come off. In my shack I mostly use LMR-400 (or other 0.400” size coax). I wanted to locate some clear/transparent heat shrink tubing to cover these labels, but I needed something that would fit over a PL-259 (or N connector) and shrink down enough to be tight on the LMR-400. I found a really useful type. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002BFYVC

picture of the finished product attached (hopefully).

73 Eugene W2HX
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