You will find Dunstone Hi-Shrink Tape used to produce everything from the USA flagpole on the Moon to missile nose cones and composite hockey sticks.
Hi-Shrink Tape has a variety of applications, including:
Defense, Aerospace, Aircraft Applications:
- Composite aircraft engine parts
- Composite aircraft propellers-leading edge
- Composite canisters-aircraft
- Composite Plenum-aircraft
- Kevlar ducts-aircraft, environmental & venting
- Epoxy Graphite Lens Housing-Maverick Missile System
- F/A18 Hornet repair
- Fiberglass composite parts for aerospace
- Filament wound pressure vessels-aerospace
- Filament wound structural rods-aerospace
- Composite periscope parts-submarine
- Composite helicopter ducts & parts
- Hydraulic hose assemblies for aircraft
- Fuselage Boom, Human powered Aircraft-Daedalus
- Fuselage boom, human powered aircraft-Gossamer Albatross
- Fuselage boom, human powered aircraft-Michelob Light Eagle
- Fuselage boom & cockpit frames, human powered aircraft-sky cycle
- Nuclear submarine components, U.S. Navy
- Carbon & Kevlar spar tube-solar powered unmanned aircraft/NASA
- Composite ducts-space shuttle
- Composite ducts-B-1 Bomber
- Composite parts for spacecraft deployment system
- Specialty heaters for aircraft
- Strain gauge attachment
- Radar domes
- Missile nose cones
- Delta IV missile satellite deployment system-rubber bladder tube
- Laminating wiring harness to Tow missile outer tube
- Jet aircraft engine repair of wear sleeve components
- Jet engine fan duct
- Composite U.S. flagpole on surface of moon
Electrical applications:
- As a sacrifice material for form wound coils to secure and consolidate B-staged tape
- As a sacrifice material during hot press of coils with resin rich tape
- Holding copper magnet wire in place prior to application of Mica tape
- Consolidation force during cure of coil insulation
- Protection of coils during handling and forming
- Transformer windings to hold tap coil leads and insulation in place
- Overwrap banding tape on armature, rotor and form wound coil assemblies
- During motor rewind, as outer wrap for field & form wound coils
- Outer wrap over resin banding tape during cure, on commutators
- Outer wrap over glass banding tape during cure, on armatures
- Wrapping bus bars and toroidal coils/transformers
- Overwrap stators prior to dip and bake to avoid varnish clean-up
- Hold copper wire in place during varnish impregnation of form wound coils
Advanced Composites Applications:
- Composite outer shell of bearings
- Composite bike frames
- Composite billiard cues
- Composite hockey sticks
- Composite mirrors
- Composite tubes as crucible containment for microwave testing
- Composite violin bow
- Composite branches-Disney Swiss Family Tree
- Wet filament wound pressure vessels
- Prepreg and filament wound tubes & rods
- Filament wound cooling tower drive shafts
- Filament wound fishing rods
- Golf club shafts
- Graphite epoxy booms for utility trucks
- Life support rubber hose
- Marine exhaust ductwork
- Composite sailboat masts
- Composite mechanical connectors
- Carbon fiber motorcycle exhaust products-mufflers
- Composite racing motorcycle parts
- Composite tennis racket repairs
- Composite tennis racket manufacturing
- Composite tubular components for race cars
- Composite tubular components for sailboats
- Wet wound carbon epoxy tubes
- Carbon fiber reinforcing rod for concrete
- Filament wound oars and paddles
- Wind sail ribs
- Wind surf masts
- Prosthetic limbs
- Olympic bobsled components
- Amateur rocket cases
- Carbon fiber/nickel pen barrels
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