There’s a lot to be said in favor of getting kids involved in hacking as young as possible, but there is one thing about working in electronics that I believe is best left as a mystery until at least ...

Hand grips on tools wear out quickly with heavy use, but firefighter blog VentEnterSearch offers up an easy way to create a new grip or repair an old one using wire and heat-shrink tubing. By wrapping ...

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline runs through 800 rugged miles of mountains, forests, and rivers. Wrapped around much of this sturdy pipe, a durable coating known as heat shrink has held the line against ...

Now, it's your turn. Share your best hack using heat shrink tubing. Your hack can use other materials, of course, but the heat shrink tubing should be the defining element. Send us pictures and a ...

Nobody is likely to confuse it with the beautiful joinery that makes fine furniture so desirable. But as a practical technique, using plastic bottles as heat-shrink tubing for composite joints is ...