The Medway Handyman wrote:

How do you go about fitting heatshrink to each wire? Each wire still has
its own insulation apart from the bit inside the crimp. Or do you mean
heatshrink just over the crimp? Or would you pull the heatshrink back, make
the crimp & then allow it to spring back?

I do see the point about staggering the crimps - good tip.

Perhaps I'm having a blond moment :-)

Well it does depend on whether your crimps are insulated ones or not ;-)

With uninsulated ones, then you must use heatshring on each wire - it
covers the whole crimp and a bit of wire either side.

With insulated crimps then you can do without the extra heatshrink
inside so long as the insulated crimp has a skirt section to ensure
there is no possibility of copper being visible at the base of the
crimp. Having said that there is nothing to stop you using heatshrink on
the individual wires even if you do have insulated crimps.



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Cheers,

John.

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