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[markfm]

I used a blow dryer. About burned my finger off trying to keep the insulator on long enough to get that side to flip down. I have a heat gun somewhere. But where is the operative part of it.

Position the positive end pointing up, with a couple mm of wrap extending above the top. Hold the wrap around the battery about halfway down the side as you heat the top. Gravity holds the insulator in place.

If you are still getting very hot fingers you probably need to switch to low power on the dryer. Also, make sure you are moving the dryer back and forth, you don't hold it still at any time.

 

[Terri McVeety]

Position the positive end pointing up, with a couple mm of wrap extending above the top. Hold the wrap around the battery about halfway down the side as you heat the top. Gravity holds the insulator in place.

If you are still getting very hot fingers you probably need to switch to low power on the dryer. Also, make sure you are moving the dryer back and forth, you don't hold it still at any time.

Sounds like what I’m doing, maybe not moving enough though. I’m sure I’ll get to try again soon, this one won’t make it long lol

 

[fiddleshe]

Position the positive end pointing up, with a couple mm of wrap extending above the top. Hold the wrap around the battery about halfway down the side as you heat the top. Gravity holds the insulator in place.

If you are still getting very hot fingers you probably need to switch to low power on the dryer. Also, make sure you are moving the dryer back and forth, you don't hold it still at any time.

The blow dryer kept blowing the insulator off. Thats why I had to hold it on with my finger. And I was using low power.

 

[markfm]

You might be holding it too close and high. Keep it further back, and centered below the edge - the heatshrink should quickly bend over the insulator, trapping it in place.

 

[Haktuspit]

Gravity holds the insulator in place.

This has not been my experience. The blow dryer blows the insulator right out as soon as I point it anywhere near the positive end. I now hold the battery between my legs, use my left hand to hold a pair of ceramic tweezers that hold down the insulator, then blow dry with my right. As soon as the positive end is shrink wrapped I hold the battery in my left and blow dry with the right.

Although... my last rewrap looked pretty sloppy. Hmmm heat gun might be nice.

 

[fiddleshe]

This has not been my experience. The blow dryer blows the insulator right out as soon as I point it anywhere near the positive end. I now hold the battery between my legs, use my left hand to hold a pair of ceramic tweezers that hold down the insulator, then blow dry with my right. As soon as the positive end is shrink wrapped I hold the battery in my left and blow dry with the right.

Although... my last rewrap looked pretty sloppy. Hmmm heat gun might be nice.

I am waiting for adhesive backed insulators from FT before I rewrap my second set of batteries. Screw holding the insulator in place. It's too hot. Next time I will try to find my heat gun too.

 

[UncLeJunkLe]

@UncleJunkle
Has never really been a problem...whenever Nurse/Doc leave the room they always ask "Door...Open?...Closed?"...and I always say "Closed...it's SO noisy out there"...

There is a camera in every UPMC & AHN hospital room I have been in. Look up at the ceiling in the front of the room, it's one of the little black dome lenses sticking out of the ceiling tiles.

It could be that these cameras are only in Cardiac, SICU and ICU units, I don't know. Those are the only places I've been in hospitals in the pst 15 years.

 

[Terri McVeety]

The blow dryer kept blowing the insulator off. Thats why I had to hold it on with my finger. And I was using low power.

That’s the only part I get right lol

 

[fiddleshe]

There is a camera in every UPMC hospital room I have been in.

vape in the bathroom or under the covers

 

[kross8]

Does anyone else have problems re-wrapping batteries? Just a blow dryer they said...

I even bought OBD wraps. Literally hear krinkling!!!

I use a blow dryer and comb,, the comb holds it in place,, and because I don't want to scorch my counter top, I blow dry the battery in a very dry sink.

 

[Terri McVeety]

You might be holding it too close and high. Keep it further back, and centered below the edge - the heatshrink should quickly bend over the insulator, trapping it in place.

My ends look good, it’s the length that’s not good. I do start at one end and go down slowly from there.

maybe I am too close.

 

[fiddleshe]

My ends look good, it’s the length that’s not good. I do start at one end and go down slowly from there.

maybe I am too close.

I do both ends first then the middle. How does the length not look good? Pic?

 

[UncLeJunkLe]

That’s the only part I get right lol

These might be helpful...



Reddit: Custom Battery Wraps Tutorial

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[fiddleshe]

These might be helpful...



Reddit: Custom Battery Wraps Tutorial

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He was using adhesive insulators and non-blowing type heat. And the job didnt look that great in the end.

 

[NolaMel]

This has not been my experience. The blow dryer blows the insulator right out as soon as I point it anywhere near the positive end. I now hold the battery between my legs, use my left hand to hold a pair of ceramic tweezers that hold down the insulator, then blow dry with my right. As soon as the positive end is shrink wrapped I hold the battery in my left and blow dry with the right.

Although... my last rewrap looked pretty sloppy. Hmmm heat gun might be nice.

This one was recommended by several people on another thread. Caveat, I haven’t tried one, but for $12? Worth a shot

 

[fiddleshe]

This one was recommended by several people on another thread. Caveat, I haven’t tried one, but for $12? Worth a shot

link?

 

[Terri McVeety]

I do both ends first then the middle. How does the length not look good? Pic?

Looks not too bad, it’s not shrunk up enough so krinkles when I touch it

 

[UncLeJunkLe]

vape in the bathroom or under the covers

LOL. I do vape in the bathroom when I take a family member to the hospital. At one hospital I know where just about every single-person bathroom is in that hospital. Lock the door, take a vape, blow it up to the vent in the ceiling.

Vapers have told me they think that is so low class to go to the bathroom to vape, but it beats having to walk a mile to go outside then another mile back in (you think I'm joking, three are very few entrances/exits in that hospital, it's a hike and half to get outside from where I usually am). Not to mention, when it's really hot or cold, who TF wants to go outside? No one can smell my vape, I usually just vape straight-up peppermint flavor, no smell.

I also can't stand vaping around smokers because I can't take the smoke anymore. It doesn't make me sick, but its suffocating to me anymore and it triggers this kind of anger in me, it's REALLY irritating emotionally. I can't explain it.

So even if I do go outside, I have to walk farther than the smokers who just walk across the street. I have to bypass the smokers to get to a nice, smoke-free spot.

Geez, being a vaper is a lot of work!

 

[UncLeJunkLe]

Looks not too bad, it’s not shrunk up enough so krinkles when I touch it

That's definitely not finished yet. Keep going until it's skin tight. If it's not getting any tighter, don't move your heat source so quickly over the battery. Either that or you got the wrong size battery wraps. The proper size wrap fits kinda snug on the battery before you even shrink it. If you have like 3 or more mm between the wrap and your battery, it may be too big...or the wrap just sucks lol.

 

[fiddleshe]

Looks not too bad, it’s not shrunk up enough so krinkles when I touch it

It's not shrunk all the way. You need to shrink it more around the middle.