Do you think splicing 100' of wire onto a GTO exit wand would work?
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From: mm on 3 Feb 2010 22:32 On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:44:35 -0500, blueman <NOSPAM(a)nospam.com> wrote: >mm <NOPSAMmm2005(a)bigfoot.com> writes: >> On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:14:22 -0500, blueman <NOSPAM(a)nospam.com> wrote: >> >>>mm <NOPSAMmm2005(a)bigfoot.com> writes: >>>> If you're burying it when you're done, silicone tape, I think it's >>>> called, is even better than heat-shrink tubing and doesn't slip on, it >>>> wraps on. Stretch it to 2 or 3 times its length, then wrap while >>>> streched and within a few days it merges into one big probably >>>> waterproof blob. Hard to find though. >>> >>>HD has it in several locations in our local stores (plumbing and maybe also >>>electrical areas) - may be hard to find cuz most people don't know about it. >> >> It seems we are talking about -- at least that's what's included in >> his kit -- "Scotch 23 High Voltage Tape"**, but when I search on that >> at the Home Depot site, I get 2 hits, regular vinyl electrical tape >> and packaging tape. When I search on "Scotch 23", I don't get >> anything. > >I don't remember it being called High Voltage Tape... Most of the hits I got yesterday called it Scotch 23 Rubber Splicing Tape. Hah, Mouser sells it. Within the areas they sell things for connectors, small switches, etc. they have just about everything, http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/3M-Electronic-Specialty/SCOTCH-23-3-4-TAPE/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMuwwZaQzCsHbBksJ154q6XeW%2F11ygiiXNI%3D They call it rubber splicing tape. When I got mine, it came without a wrapper, which is why I ddidn't know what to call it. They want 22.76 a roll. A dollar less each if you buy two. The URL I posted yesterday charged about 12. I don't know about relative shipping costs. This is for 3/4" which is the narrowist I've seen. 30 feet which is what the other rolls that width were. This width is what I have and if you get wider, it may be harder to economize with it. A search for rubber splicing at the HD site showed nothing. Lowes came up with Image x 3M 3/4"W x 15'L Electrical Splicing Tape Item #: 158594 | Model #: 2242 For moisture sealing and insulating. Highly conformable, linerless ethylene propylene rubber (EPR) based tape But this is number 2242 Linerless Rubber Splicing tape, with which I have no experience and it isn't the same thing because without the liner the other stuff would merge into a blob. It's only 3.94 but if it doesn't self-amalgamate, I don't know what is special about it. > >> >> Now HD and Lowes have the worst webpages I've come across, so maybe >> that doesn't mean anything. >> >> The one easily visible thing I've noticed about this tape is that it >> is wound on a white plastic spool, instead of a cardboard spool. It's >> thick and has a backing layer that has to be removed to use a piece. >I think that's right because otherwise it would stick to itself -- which >is exactly what it should be doing when you apply it. >> >> Are we talking about the same thing? Do they really have it at HD. >They do in our area. >> I looked years ago but couldnt' find it. >> >> It's expensive. I think I paid 11 or 12 dollars a roll, but it's great >> for special uses. >I seem to remember more like $5-7. |