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At the beginning of this video tutorial, we would have two separate cables. At the end of the tutorial, we would have a single, longer cable. The two cables will be connected to each other using a Heat-Shrink Tubing  

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  • 23 Feb 2018
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TL. DR.

Place Heat-Shrink Tubing on one of the cables. Twist the two ends of the cables together. Move the tubing above the twisted ends. Heat the tubing with the lighter and the cables will be connected. 

What is Heat-Shrink Tubing?

This is a tube from a special material. When heated with a lighter the tubing will shrink. If the two ends of the cables are in the shrink it will glue them together. 

How to use the heat-shrink tubing?

Get the elements that you need. Cable to be extended. 2-3 centimetres of Heat-Shrink Tubing and a cable. 

Cut one end of a M-M cable.

After cutting this is what you have.

Place the Heat Shrink Tubing on the cable.

Twist the two ends of the cables

Move the Heat-shrink tubing over the twisted ends.

Heat the tubing with a lighter. This is the final result.

 

Congratulations. You have one of the cables extended. 

English

In the beginning of this video tutorial we have two separate cables - the one on the car and the one in this bag. At the end of the tutorial we would have a single longer cable. The two cables will be connected to each other using a heat shrink tubing. Let's start with what we need. We need a heat shrink tube and what is this? It's a special kind of material that when heated it shrinks and it glues the cables that are inside. And it is easily found. We've added a few meters in the set. How do we prepare? First, we unwrap the heat shrink tubing then we cut about 2-3 cm or an inch like this

then from the bag with the cables we take one cable that's male to male.

And let's take one cable that's male to male.

Because I would like to extend this white cable here it is convenient to use a white cable. It is not mandatory but it is convenient.

And I take a single white cable. Then we take the scissors

and we cut one of the ends. Now, be careful here because you measure twice, you cut once. You have a male to male cable and you cut one of the ends. Then we take the lighter and we must prepare this cable to be extended.

We have the conductor.

Now we take the heat shrink tubing that we've prepared earlier and now we place the cable inside. Like this.

Then we take the cable that we would like to extend and we twist the two ends of this cable of both cables. We twist them. Let's turn this

so that you can see it.

Take the cables

and we twist them one to the other.

In this way we attach the two conductors to each other.

Something like this.

And then we place the heat shrink tubing over this part

like this. And now we take a lighter and we are careful not to light and to burn the cable but the heat shrink tubing. Just small is enough.

And that's it. The cable is now attached. And we have this cable extended. It starts from the front motor right here and at the other end of the cable we have a very convenient connector that we can now use to further extend the cable or to attach to some of the controllers, drivers and other components. Use some of the others male to male cables and extend all the cables in your car. It will take some time. You should extend the cables at the lower part of the car - the bottom and the upper part of the car. And at the end you would have all the cables extended and ready to use and we can then continue attaching them to the different components.

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