So I’m not sure what the right community for this is but I’m hoping yall can help. I’m a refrigeration service tech and recently I was tasked with replacing a sensor in a room used to store ethanol drums. Due to the nature of the room every device in it had to be rated explosion proof and I couldn’t use any tools that could pose any risk of ignition (no heat gun, basically nothing with an electric motor, and definitely no open flames) while working in there. Normally when I splice wires I use heatshrink to cover the splice simply because it looks far more professional than electrical tape and it holds up better over time. However in this case I could not figure out any way of shrinking said heatshrink without posing a potential ignition hazard so I was stuck just wrapping the splice in tape. We do a lot of work for this company so I’m hoping to find a better solution for the next time I am in a similar situation.
So do any of you know any way to shrink heatshrink without posing an ignition hazard or am I stuck just using tape in those situations?
I don’t think there’s any way to safely generate just enough heat for this to work without the ignition hazard. Heatshrink definitely looks nicer than tape but I think anyone will understand in this scenario.
Yeah, tape is fine here and logically I know noone will complain but it still rubs me the wrong way so I was hoping there was an alternative. If not then oh well, tape it is.
Have you seen self adhesive tape? It’s a bit nicer at least.
Yeah, I’ll have to bring some of that along next time. We have it at the shop. I just didn’t consider bringing it last time because it hadn’t occured to me that heat shrink would be impossible to use in there until I was nearly done.