Be careful using heatshrink.  Sometimes the heat required to shrink the
tubing melts/damages the part you are trying to protect/fix.  BTDT.

-Dick-

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:28 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:

> At 11:44 AM 2/7/2013, Stuart MacMillan wrote:
>
>> If a socket isn't available would encasing the relay and the wires in heat
>> shrink work as well?   Wouldn't fit in a small box anymore though.
>>
>
> Inserting a (possibly shaped) spacer block and then heat-shrinking
> the terminals to the outside of it ought to help.  Whipping the
> outside with waxed thread or lacing cord would also give a rigid
> support without having to find a piece of huge shrink tubing.
>
> Yours,
> d
>