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Jim Redelfs Jim Redelfs is offline
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Default How to shorten christmas light strings to fit your need

In article .com,
"terry" wrote:

I would suggest that just using electrical tape on
the [cut] end would not be safe or acceptable.


Agreed.


Perhaps some kind of plastic liquid; the sort into which you dip the
handles of tools, several times, to give them a coating would work
and it must thoroughly adhere the cut end of the wire?


I have used heat shrink tubing with good result.
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JR