There’s a lot to be said in favor of getting kids involved in hacking as young as possible, but there is one thing about working in electronics that I believe is best left as a mystery until at least ...

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 ...

Hand grips on tools wear out quickly with heavy use, but firefighter blog VentEnterSearch offers up an easy way to create a new grip or repair an old one using wire and heat-shrink tubing. By wrapping ...

Hello, fellow Lifehackers! Time for another MacGyver Challenge. What's a MacGyver Challenge, you ask? Simple. We give you an object and you show us what cool things you can do with it. Our editors ...

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline runs through 800 rugged miles of mountains, forests, and rivers. Wrapped around much of this sturdy pipe, a durable coating known as heat shrink has held the line against ...

For almost 60 years heat shrink materials have been known and commercially available. Most people are familiar with “shrink wrap”, and a lot of us have even used heat shrinkable tubing for repairs on ...

If you’ve gone through the trouble of building your own customized mechanical keyboard, the last thing you want to do is plug it into your computer with some plebeian USB cable from the local ...