REFLECTOR: Electrical Marking Tip

[Alex Balic]

I have had some success in the past stretching the heat shrink even more
with needle-nose pliers- works good for the larger wires, since the
difference in size of the wire to the terminal is not so great- it will
still shrink back to the correct size even if stretched out- might be
difficult to do on the really small heat shrink though.

 

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From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Jim Agnew
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 9:18 AM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Electrical Marking Tip

 

Hear is a tip for the use of heat shrink tubing to label wireing that I
learned a long time ago on boat wires.

If you use 3 to 1 heat shrink uou can gennerally slip it over the terminal.

 

The secret to this labeling is to clamp one end of the heat shrink down on a
flat surface and stretch it flat.  Next use a very fine point permanent
black marker to label the tubing then shrink the tubing in place.  When you
heat the tubing with a heat gun it will shrink and so will the lettering.
You can then amaze your friends with your ability to print such small clear
letters!  White, Yellow, & Light Blue heat shrink tubing works best for
labeling.


 Jim

 

James F. Agnew
Jim_Agnew_2 at Yahoo.Com
Tampa, FL
Velocity 173 Elite Aircraft Completed & Flying 

 

 

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From: Brian Michalk <michalk at awpi.com>
To: Velocity xl <velocityxl at fastmail.fm>; Velocity Aircraft Owners and
Builders list <reflector at tvbf.org>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 9:52:00 AM
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Electrical Marking Tip

I think you made a good choice.

I really hate the fact that aircraft wiring choices are so narrow.
I would have loved to have some sort of printer that would print 
identifying color bands, stripes or numbering on the wire.  Probably not 
many people do wiring on their own cars anymore, but my old car manual 
identified all wires by color.  It sure made things easy.

About the best I found was to use a Brother Labeller.  Put the stickers 
on like flags.  Still not pretty though.

Velocity xl wrote:
> Say all I am looking to a little help with electrical wiring.
> I have the wire markers ( the little numbers and letters )
> that you tape to the wire as an Identifier. The problem is
> they keep coming off. Now I have put clear heat shirk tubing
> on the ones I install now and that works great but I really do
> not want to cut off all of my Crimps to put heat shrink tubing
> on the ones I missed. Is there any tips on how to keep these
> little Pieces of tape on the wire???
>  
> PS I decided to go all electrical and get rid of the Vacuum Gauges.
> I did not look like there was a good way to run these Vacuum gauges.
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Ron
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