wiring insulation

[crazycanuck]

I often make battery packs but have to keep the old connectors!
what i do is cut about 2" of wires along with old connector and solder new pack to old wires and connector and tape joints.
It looks bad and tape comes loose on such small wire.
Question-- Can I strip old insulation wire and low heat melt to a liquid so I can dip the joint, reinsulating soldered joint.

 

[RF Lighting]

Why not use heatshrink sleeving?

 

[electronicsuk]

It's got to be either heatshrink sleeving as RF suggested, or special butt splice crimps you can purchase which have an adhesive lined heatshrink coating on either end to allow you to fully seal them.

Soldering with heatshrink sleeving over the top will provide a neater joint, the crimp will be a little bulkier but perhaps quicker to do and without the "oh expletive, I've forgotten to slide on the heatshrink tubing before soldering" moments!

 

[crazycanuck]

I use heat shrink for binding together batteries to make packs of 6,8,10 etc. but I,m talking about 1-2 mm dia wire with insulation I can,t find heat shrink that small.

 

[electronicsuk]

http://www.rapidonline.com/Cables-C...-Heat-shrinkable-sleeving/62470/kw/heatshrink was the first result when I typed the word 'heatshrink' into this suppliers web site. Shrink ratios up to 4:1 are quite common, so you should have no problem finding something to use with this diameter wire. I don't know where you can purchase from in Canada though - DigiKey maybe?

 

[plugwash]

if you can't find heatshrink that size you are obviously looking in the wrong places. any decent electronics supplier should sell the stuff, digi-key seem to have a huge range.

http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Cat=1704112;keywords=heatshrink