heatshrink

@Felthry i... umm, hadn't ever thought to use anything other than a heat gun. interesting.

@patchwork We use a heat gun most of the time but when we can't be bothered to get it out and deal with how loud it is and how it has to continue being loud afterward to cool itself down, we have a bic lighter in the lab

we are very much not in the "touch it with the soldering iron" or "carefully use a blowtorch" camp though, both of those have too much risk of damaging or burning stuff

we've never used a flameless butane heat source either but that's just because they're not common anymore
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@Felthry i feel like the last time we knicked some shrink tubing with our iron it got kinda melty, but i'm curious about trying with a bic next time now, just for funzies

@Felthry i also really suck at electronics stuff so apologies if my comment was in any way telling XP

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@patchwork i mean, you know what heatshrink is, that's a step above a lot of people out there!
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@patchwork i am a little curious what projects you've done! and what tools you use, because we get into tools quite a lot for soem reason
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