Hair/blow dryers on the other hand tend to range in temperatures from about 80° to 140° Fahrenheit. As we said before, most heat shrink will shrink around 200° Fahrenheit, (about 90° Celsius). The issue is that most hair dryers, (or blow dryers), don’t reach the same temperatures as a heat gun. Sometimes the heat shrink doesn’t shrink as well as it could or the blow dryer just takes a lot longer to get the heat shrink to fully shrink. We have tried shrinking heat shrink with hair/blow dryers before and it produces mixed results. You can also see all our heat shrink tubing by clicking here, or on the button below.
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If you need help in choosing the right heat shrink for your project feel free to contact us. Of course, we also offer different colors of heat shrink tubing, which includes clear heat shrink tubing. For the iPhone cord we chose to use an adhesive lined heat shrink tubing that will make sure the heat shrink glues itself in place. For example, there are diesel and fluid resistant types of heat shrink out there, as well as heat shrink that is UV resistant. The last thing to be aware of when selecting your heat shrink tubing are any additional special qualities or characteristics that you might need. We offer heat shrink tubing in 2:1, 3:1, 4:1, and 6:1 shrink ratios. For example, we chose to use a 3 to 1, (usually written in ratio form as 3:1), heat shrink tubing on the iPhone cord, which means the tubing starts 3 times larger than what it shrinks down to. Shrink ratio measures the difference between the size of the tubing before and after it shrinks. The next thing to know, is the shrink ratio.
For an iPhone cable we chose a heat shrink tubing sized at 3/8 of an inch. For example, if we wanted to make sure our heat shrink tubing would fit over an iPhone cable, (like we did in the section below), we would need to make sure the heat shrink was larger than the cable and the connector at the end of the cable. So measure what it is you need the heat shrink to fit over and make sure you choose a size larger a little larger than that. The first thing to know is that heat shrink tubing sizes are listed in a before shrinking size. Heat shrink tubing comes in many different sizes, different shrink ratios, and there are many different types that offer unique characteristics. If you’re new to heat shrink tubing, choosing the right tubing can be a bit tricky.
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