What have you used for heating crimps and heat shrink tubing, Ultra torch, heat gun or bic lighter? Whats safe whats not?

 

hair dryer, heat gun... safe

Lighter, torch done it but you have to be careful or you will just melt the tubing or worse with that torch...

 

Heat gun.

 

And only buy the best American made tubing. There is some really bad crap out there that doesn't even have ozone resistance.

 

I use a Makita heat gun.

 

definatly heat gun.....if i am doing wiring on my bike i solder it shrink wrap the individual wires then shrink wrap the group of wires i was working on

 

Heat gun if you dont have one get yer Ol Ladies Hair dryer, that dont work or your on the road why else do I carry a bic???

 

I just use a hair on high setting

 

Heat gun, bought one at Sears for $28. Hair dryers take forever and don't really get it tight in my experience. I also found some water-proof, heat shrink butt splices (all-in-one) at Meijer that are great, they don't come in black but you can put a piece of black tubing over the top for double protection.

 

I heat shrink all connections and use heat gun, flames are hard to control heat level and direction.