Unusual but practical ideas for using heat shrink tubing in everyday life.

Usually heat shrink tubing are used to insulate the connection of wires.

But this is far from the only area of ​​possible application.

Due to the ability of heat shrink tubing change its size when heated, they can still find practical application, eg, at home.

Several interesting and useful ideas for their use, consider below.

Lace tip repair.

Probably, everyone faced such a problem in everyday life, when the metal or plastic tip of the lace is lost and the tip is loose.

It doesn't look neat, and even the lace is unraveling.

This problem can be solved easily and simply with a heat shrink tubing.

To do this, you need to use scissors cut off the loose end of the lace and drip a little on its superglue.

Then put a suitable size heat shrink tubing over the lace and cut off the excess part.

Then using a lighter (or a hair dryer) just evenly heat shrink tubing.

Repair of the wire from the charger.

Another household problem

which can be solved with heat shrink tubing is repair of the outer layer of wire insulation at the base of the charging.

In this case, you also need select the size of the heat shrink tubing and place it on the wire soso that it covers the damaged area.

Then heat the heat shrink tube evenly with a lighter (hot air gun) and the renovation is complete.

Insulating the screwdriver shaft.

If at hand no dielectric screwdriver, and there is work related to the power grid, then heat shrink tubing will help out again. It can be used to easily insulate the screwdriver shaft.