[boing]

I want to put a piece of heat shrink tubing on the trigger of my AK. Where to buy, and what to heat with?

Thanks.

[meathammer]

You can get that stuff at Radio Shack or a similar electronics store. A lighter works pretty well for shrinking it. It doesn't require much heat. A heat gun works better.

[boing]

Thanks. So it's a wiring thing. I didn't know what it was actually supposed to be used for.

No heat gun here. But I have toaster oven. :)

[saands]

A lighter will work much better than a toaster oven! Just start out a few inches away or you will scortch the tubing ... but it doesn't really matter, you will have plenty of it to make several attempts.

Saands

[Badger Arms]

They have these tiny butane torch kind of lighters that work really well. They will not blacken the heat-shrink like a lighter will.

What do you want the tubing on there for? If you are getting trigger slap (like from a European AK with an American trigger group) that's a different story. Is it hurting your finger when you fire the gun?

[W.Va.Glassman]

Try a hair dryer:)

[boing]

The FCG is from FSE. The tip of the trigger has a little bump in it's contour that gets irritating after awhile. I'm hoping to reduce the feel of it without having to dremel (yet). There's no slap with the FSE parts. I think the trigger might feel a little better, anyway, if it were a bit fatter. We'll see.

I don't have a hair dryer. I'm bald(ing). I have a wife, though. She's not bald. Maybe she has one. :D

[bountyhunter]

A lighter will work much better than a toaster oven! Just start out a few inches away or you will scortch the tubing ... but it doesn't really matter, you will have plenty of it to make several attempts.

It doesn't metter if it gets blackened by the flame. Just let it cool and wipe the carbon soot off of it. The stuff is not affected by heat.

[KarlG]

The tubing can also be purchased in many hardware stores. Radio Schack usually had packages of shorter pieces of various diameters (which will work fine for you) and hardwre stores have 3' lengths of a single diameter. There are some pretty high tech heat shrink products available for industrial use,too if you have access...