lendunne
10th June 2008, 10:59 AM
In addition to my interests in woodworking - which is why I visit this Forum, I also do a fair bit of work on cars - classics.
One of the projects I am working on at the moment is building new wire looms to support the old Bosch D-Jetronic fuel injections systems. These were the first electronic fuel injection systems to go into production (Circa 1966).
I recently got a buddy of mine in the US to send me over a few rolls of 3M Polyolefin Heat Shrink tubing. This is the good stuff, not the cheap PVC material that you sometimes find here. It has a 2:1 shrink ratio, and is the best material for joining electric wires. You can use it over terminals to give a real professional finish (and keep water/dust out) or you can apply it to wires soldered together, or just twisted together.
Once you put a piece of Polyolefin tube over the wire and apply a heat gun to it the plastic shrinks to a real nice tight finish - holding everything in place.
The sizes I had sent over are: 6mm, 9mm, 12mm, 25mm and 45mm diameter. The larger 45mm tube is heat resistant - so it it meant for protecting cables like that used on welding equipment. But it's still very flexible. I have used some of this to protect the OEM PVC wire looms around the engine bay of air-cooled vehicles. It works real well.
If anyone is interested in getting some of this tubing from me, I have around 30 metres of it in total that is excess to my requirements. I will sell it by the metre from $4 -15/metre, depending upon the diameter you need.
So drop me a line and take some of this great tubing off my hands. It will be cheap to post, probably all that I have for sale would fit into a $10 Post-Pak.
If you are into doing your own wiring on cars, this stuff is the best solution to putting wire looms together as good as when they came out of the factory.
One of the projects I am working on at the moment is building new wire looms to support the old Bosch D-Jetronic fuel injections systems. These were the first electronic fuel injection systems to go into production (Circa 1966).
I recently got a buddy of mine in the US to send me over a few rolls of 3M Polyolefin Heat Shrink tubing. This is the good stuff, not the cheap PVC material that you sometimes find here. It has a 2:1 shrink ratio, and is the best material for joining electric wires. You can use it over terminals to give a real professional finish (and keep water/dust out) or you can apply it to wires soldered together, or just twisted together.
Once you put a piece of Polyolefin tube over the wire and apply a heat gun to it the plastic shrinks to a real nice tight finish - holding everything in place.
The sizes I had sent over are: 6mm, 9mm, 12mm, 25mm and 45mm diameter. The larger 45mm tube is heat resistant - so it it meant for protecting cables like that used on welding equipment. But it's still very flexible. I have used some of this to protect the OEM PVC wire looms around the engine bay of air-cooled vehicles. It works real well.
If anyone is interested in getting some of this tubing from me, I have around 30 metres of it in total that is excess to my requirements. I will sell it by the metre from $4 -15/metre, depending upon the diameter you need.
So drop me a line and take some of this great tubing off my hands. It will be cheap to post, probably all that I have for sale would fit into a $10 Post-Pak.
If you are into doing your own wiring on cars, this stuff is the best solution to putting wire looms together as good as when they came out of the factory.