Along with duct tape and nylon cable ties, heat shrink tubing is an essential element in the engineer’s toolkit as well as manufacturing, production, and repair. It’s used for covering and protecting ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For power utilities and utility contractors, 3M announces the Cold Shrink QS4 Integrated Splice for the utility market. The new splice will be demonstrated at the ...

Over the past few weeks we've looked at thread checkers to identify nuts and bolts, handy flexible hose clamp pliers and battery desulfators. This week's cool tool, generically known as heat-shrink ...

Heat shrink tubing, rarely referred to simply as “HST” even in our acronym-intensive world, is made of cross-linked polymers and is primarily used to cover and protect wire splices. EDN and Planet ...

A new cold shrink inline splice kit from 3M is designed to splice 46-kV solid dielectric power cable with a conductor size range from 4/0 AWG to 1000 kcmil. May 22, 2008 A new cold shrink inline ...