XHF UL Listed 1 8 Inch 55Ft 3 1 Waterproof Heat Shrink Tubing Roll Marine Grade Adhesive Lined

This stuff is amazing. After trying several other shrink tubing and not having any success, I finally found this stuff which is the correct ratio of 3 to 1 which helps you to actually get a good seal around smaller wire, which can be hard to do since blade type connectors are all the same size no matter how small a wire gauge they go. Other shrink tubing might be good for 12AWG but not 16AWG whereas this is good for both. It’s also adhesive and you can tell it’s making a good seal and sticking to the wire, not just shrinking but not sticking, for which there is no purpose. I just ran out after like a year of using this for various projects and came to this page to repurchase and also maybe get larger shrink tubing for battery terminals. I want to see if they make them in the larger size since the 1/4” I got worked so well for so long. It’s seriously a staple in my kit. Read more

I used this product to cover golf wedge shafts, and I have to tell you that the results were awesome. The original graphite shafts were troublingly gaudy and over-decorated. I wanted simple black. Now, I am anything but handy with projects, but I had no difficulty at all putting on these "covers." Very, very easy and no bumps or blemishes at all. They have added a bit of weight but this is not problematic for wedges. I don't think that they would be good for drivers and fairway woods which I like light. Quick job. Highly recommend. Cheaper than the commercially available "golf shaft skinz" that are available, and, from what I can tell, these produce a better result. Read more

Excellcent product. Needed to regrip a Fiskars Loppers handle that failed. The grips became sticky and grimey. So i figured i would try the heat shrink. Worked out perfectly! FISKARS needs a redesign on their handle grips. They denied my warranty claim. They basically melted from the summer heat in the garage. Read more

Took a lot of heat to get it shrinking. I'm used to smaller tubing which shrinks really quick. This i heated over a stove burner and it was super hot yet slow going. The end result is good. Final cord is a bit stiff. Could be a good thing if that's what you want. Read more

I purchased the XHF UL Listed 1 Inch (25mm) 3:1 Waterproof Heat Shrink Tubing to be used on a submersible pump wire. I used it with a 14 gauge 3 conductor royal type wire. I had already sealed each wire connection (3) with waterproof heat shrink tubing with adhesive, but since the wire will be going in the water, I wanted to insulate all the connections and the wire itself, so I bought the 1" size of the XHF 3:1 waterproof heat shrink tubing so as to slide over all three waterproof connections. It concerned me that the XHF heat shrink tubing would not shrink enough to adhere to the 14 ga. wire itself.....but it did! The XHF heat shrink tubing did a marvelous job of shrinking around the three already insulated connections and then it shrank enough to adhere to the cable insulation itself, oozing out the glue on the ends to confirm it adhered! I am impressed! The XHF heat shrink tubing is not the normal thin heat shrink tubing you use for smaller wires, but is adequately thick too! I was impressed with the thickness and durability of this heat shrink tubing, even once it shrank. It was easy to use, as I just cut off the length I needed to cover the exposed 3 wire connections and and extra couple of inches on each end, to cover the cable itself. I then used a standard heat gun/paint stripper to heat the shrink tubing. It did as advertised.....shrunk enough to provide waterproof insulation with an adhesive. It didn't come with instructions, but if you heat from the center of the tubing (keeping the heat gun moving continuously) outward to each end, you should get the same satisfactory results as I got. I am pleased with this purchase and feel confident that it will provide the results (waterproof and durable) that I was looking for! Yes, I would purchase again! Read more

My True treadmill front roller is small diameter (1.75") and had a plastic sleeve on it to increase friction for advancing the belt. In time, this sleeve split and bunched up causing an annoying sound when using the treadmill. The fix for this is to remove the remnant plastic sleeve, clean the roller and cover it with a piece of shrink tube. The 2" variety of XHF tube was selected and delivered in one day by Amazon. A heat gun was sufficient to shrink the tube onto the treadmill roller, although not without a few small ripples in the finished job. After reassembly with the shrink tube covered roller the treadmill is operating perfectly and much quieter than before. The XHF shrink tube worked well for this application and I am very satisfied with the result at low cost. The small ripples noted in the result appear to have no effect on treadmill operation but it would be a neater job without them. Here are some ideas that might help reduce the likelihood of a wrinkle: the shrink tube is delivered flat - introducing creases midway between the existing creases might help the shrink tube fit more uniformly around the roller prior to shrinkage; shrink the tube a little bit at a time over its entire length rather starting in the middle as I did and shrinking that section down tight before moving toward the ends. Edit 1/11/2020 The treadmill developed an annoying sticky-flappy sound again after nine months of quiet. The sleeve previously applied on the treadmill roller with the heat shrink tube was loose and would easily slide up and down the roller - a snug fit still, but no longer fixed tightly to the roller (so much for the ‘adhesive’ properties this heat shrink tubing is supposed to have). This small space between tube and roller must be the cause of the noise. (I missed a trick here: I should have tried to affix the sleeve again by applying heat). I tried unsuccessfully to use shrink tube of initial diameter 1.75 but could not get it on the roller more than a few inches before friction got too great to pull it on further. So back to the original 2” shrink tube. Luckily the length of the roller was less than 24" so I had plenty left over from the initial four foot section to make another roller cover. I sanded the surface of the treadmill roller to make it rougher and cleaned it well with isopropyl alcohol. I tried flattening the tube to set a crease halfway from the initial crease in the using piles of books; that didn't really do much to add a new permanent crease. I did change my shrinking technique a little: starting at one end I concentrated on first shrinking the portions of tube that stuck out most from the roller (caused by the crease from the flattened tubing). After shrinking those portions on opposite sides of the roller, I applied heat to the area in between. By this method I was able to shrink the tube on the roller with practically no remaining ripples or bumps; a big improvement over the first attempt. I used a Dewalt heat gun at 400 degrees F for shrinking and the process took about twenty minutes. This sort of tubing is supposed to shrink at around 210 F but it would be an incredibly slow process. I toyed with the idea of ‘curing’ the tubing even more in my kitchen over but caution won out: one end of the roller has a ridged end cap pressed on for the drive belt pulley and this cap appeared to be made from plastic. I would be majorly sad if the oven curing melted or deformed that cap. So that should be it. Hopefully I won’t be writing about attempt number three in the near future. Read more