Skibane wrote:
Desert Captain wrote:
I like the heat shrinks but they are hard to find and have always had good results with just properly crimping.
I bought an assortment of shrink butt splices, just to see how well they work - Never could get a really solid connection out of them, no matter how much heat I applied.
You still have to crimp heat shrink butt splices, then apply the heat to shrink the tubing.. The big difference in this type of splice is the heat shrink tubing has a heat activated adhesive that liquefies with heat and creates a moisture resistant seal around the wire insulation when the tubing and adhesive cools.
You can also simply buy standard crimp butt splices and separate heat shrink tubing with the adhesive.. This way you can use the heat shrink tubing with adhesive on other things besides the butt splices. Might be even cheaper that way in the end.
