Heat Shrink Printable Wire Marker Sleeve (GPM Finotube)

About Heat Shrink Printable Wire Marker Sleeve (GPM Finotube)

Panel builders, harness makers and maintenance teams need wire and cable markers that stay put and stay legible. Gala's printable marker sleeve (GPM, shown on the website as Finotube) is heat-shrinkable polyolefin tubing supplied flat, so it can be fed through a printer. Each marker is printed, slid over the wire or cable, and shrunk on, after which it grips the conductor and cannot slide off or be lost.

The sleeve is made from an irradiated, thermally stabilised modified polyolefin. It is printable on one or both sides, on thermal-transfer or laser printers, with Gala's recommended printers and ink ribbons. Printing your own markers removes the need to stock pre-printed characters.

Two shrink ratios are offered. GPM2 (2:1) and GPM3 (3:1) share the same twelve supplied sizes, named 1.6 to 76 after their nominal size, with supplied inside diameters from 2.0 to 79.4 mm; the 3:1 version recovers further, onto thinner wire. Markers come in ladder format, boxed in 250 to 2500 pieces, or as continuous tubing on paper reels (50 or 100 m) or plastic reels (25 m). Standard colours are white and yellow, with others to order. The sleeve recovers from 125 deg C and is rated for -55 to +135 deg C.

Supplied by Gala, India. Datasheet and size selection on request.

Specifications

• Brand: Gala
• Product type: Printable heat-shrink marker sleeve (flattened tubing) for wire and cable identification
• Material: Irradiated, thermally stabilised modified polyolefin
• Colour: White, yellow (other colours to order)
• Operating temperature: -55 deg C to +135 deg C
• Shrink ratio: 2:1 (GPM2) and 3:1 (GPM3)
• Size range: Nominal 1.6 to 76; supplied ID 2.0 to 79.4 mm; recovered ID 0.79 to 38.1 mm (2:1) or 0.53 to 25.8 mm (3:1)
• Wall type / thickness: Recovered single wall 0.45 mm (2:1); 0.52 to 0.92 mm (3:1)
• Application: Printed identification of wires, cables and harnesses
• Installation: Print, slide over the wire, shrink with hot air; minimum recovery temperature 125 deg C
• Country of origin: India
• Printing: Single or double sided; thermal transfer or laser printers
• Supplied form: Ladder format (boxed) or continuous (on reels)
• Maximum storage temperature: +50 deg C
• Packing: Ladder 2500 to 250 pieces per box; continuous 50 or 100 m per paper reel, 25 m per plastic reel

Sizes

• Nominal | supplied ID | flat width | recovered ID GPM2 / GPM3 | ladder pcs per box | paper reel m
• 1.6 | 2.00 | 3.7 | 0.79 / 0.53 | 2500 | 50
• 2.4 | 2.79 | 5.0 | 1.18 / 0.79 | 2500 | 50
• 3.2 | 3.64 | 6.3 | 1.59 / 1.06 | 2000 | 100
• 4.8 | 5.26 | 8.9 | 2.36 / 1.59 | 2000 | 100
• 6.4 | 6.92 | 11.5 | 3.18 / 2.13 | 2000 | 100
• 9.5 | 10.2 | 16.7 | 4.75 / 3.18 | 1000 | 100
• 12.7 | 13.5 | 21.8 | 6.35 / 4.23 | 1000 | 100
• 19 | 20.1 | 32.2 | 9.53 / 6.35 | 500 | 100
• 25 | 26.7 | 42.5 | 12.7 / 8.47 | 500 | 100
• 38 | 39.8 | 63.2 | 19.1 / 12.9 | 500 | 50
• 51 | 53.0 | 83.9 | 25.4 / 17.2 | 250 | 50
• 76 | 79.4 | 125.3 | 38.1 / 25.8 | 250 | 50
• Recovered ID is a maximum. Plastic reels hold 25 m for every size.

Applications: Control panel and switchgear builders, wire harness makers, electrical contractors, railway and metro signalling, industrial plant maintenance, OEM equipment builders