[TowerTalk] FLooded shrink tubing?? Can you remove it??

Mike nf4l at nf4l.com
Tue Oct 30 04:20:46 EST 2007


John Ammeter wrote:
> I saw that Roger, K8RI, used heat shrink tubing with "sticky goo" inside 
> for his coax connections.  I've got a supply of that from my days at the 
> local utility.  We used it for PERMANENT underground splices.
>
> Has anyone (Roger??) had experience removing that heat shrink from a 
> connection?  I'm about to put up a tower with three antennas on it and 
> was planning on using "coax-seal" but that heat shrink would be better 
> but I've never had to remove it before.
>
> John KE7JGB
>   
Put a layer of tape under the coax seal, if you think you'll *EVER* need 
to remove it.
73, Mike NF4L


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