[time-nuts] Connectors

Peter Gottlieb nerd at verizon.net
Sat Apr 13 18:24:14 EDT 2013


Think of heat shrink with a layer of hot melt glue on the inside. Such stuff is 
used in most outdoor and especially underground utility wiring.  Shrink the 
tubing and it melts the glue and the contracting tubing forces the glue into 
every crevice making a great waterproof splice.


On 4/13/2013 5:07 PM, Hal Murray wrote:
>> Can someone in the know clarify this?
> I'm not in the know.
>
> Several years ago, I found a short chunk of coax that the cable TV guys had
> left on the ground.  It included a piece of heavy wall shrink tubing.  There
> was a layer of sticky goop between the coax and the shrink tubing.
>
>



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