Turnigy Heat Shrink Tube 50mm Blue (1mtr)

 AmyS3 24 points

i see no problem with that.. but you should consider to stabelize the battery pack with sellotape or on a pice of cardbord before you heatshrink the thing. that is to avoid "flipping" from the cells after wrapping and to keep the batterypack flat.

 srepfler 1148 points

You can use lighter but not too close.

 2stroke4ever 15 points

A lighter works well on the smaller sizes for insulating wires, for lipo cover replacement use a heat gun. It's a good $20-30 well spent. There's a chance of burning out your wifes hair dryer. Unhappy wife = fewer and smaller Hobby King orders.

 Allison 1368 points

Right on. It is perfect for every up to 4 cells. If you look it has a battery in the picture. It is much thicker that the original covering.

 DelSt 112 points

Great Ok

 farleymcad 9 points

Yes, i use and work well.

 Morten 1 points

Absolutly, work very fine.

 2stroke4ever 15 points

If you leave the cover a little bit long, shrink the end to the smallest diameter, and pinch it off while still hot with a pair of long nose pliers, you can completely seal the end. For the other side, coat the wires at the base with high temp silicone, shrink and pinch. Now the pack is totally sealed and waterproof.

 VarPa 4 points

I have wrapped a 4S lipo with 50mm shrink tube with excellent result. Hope this helped!

 Bassem 20 points

I used the 50 mm to wrap 2 A123 cells. Fit like a glove...

 diego 3 points

yes yes this user can, I always use this in my shop

 hadirabie 198 points

you can use a heat gun. also why would the lipo catch fire is you will be heating the shrink wrap not the lipo itself..!

 ryan.perera22 384 points

well the lipo will still heat up even if most of the heat is absorbed by the heat shrink...

 Turbobeaver 1350 points

How do you think they heat shrink lipos at the factory?With a heat gun.You won't set the batteries on fire unless you put a blow torch to it.No open flame heat sources please,just heat guns used with a degree of common sense.

 Harald 3 points

Shrinking this tube with a lighter will be nearly impossible, exspecialy with Lipos, you have to avoid Spot-Heat. I would shrink it with a Heatgun... Factory-made Lipo packs are also wrapped in heatshrink tube... So do it outside and avoid to much heat, you could also take breaks to let the Lipo cool down, you could shrink the Tube slowly...

 crazycarmaniac 187 points

use a pencil torch similar to a blow torch but made for heat shrink and its tiny

 JackChen 218 points

I don't have a heat gun. I do have several lighters which I used for small soldering jobs like changing connectors on my batteries, simple wiring for my powerplant, etc. Anyway, I don't really need this heatshrink, just asking only.

 crazycarmaniac 187 points

hmmm i could use an fan firced oven for less than a minute. even shrink all over

 AmyS3 24 points

well... actually i did used a lighter for a few 4S 5200mAh lipo pacs... i do not recommend that but if you are skilled enough and got lots of experience with hot melt glue and a lighter, than it is easy to do. my pack are nice and evenly shrinked XD