Essentra Components guide to spiral cable wrap – how to bundle cables and hoses
Whether you call it spiral wrap, spiral cable wrap, spiral wire wrap or spiral wrap tubing, it serves an important purpose. Essentra Components (Ireland) released a new guide that gives the what, why, where and when of this ubiquitous item.
Accessible free from www.essentracomponents.com/en-gb/news/guides/guide-to-spiral-cable-wrap – the guide provides useful information for industrial applications from robotics to customization, automation to aeronautical, utilities to automotive, where wire harnesses and tubing/hoses need to be kept tidy or protected from abrasion indoors or outdoors.
It’s most often used with a wire harness assembly and to bundle cables, keeping them organised and protected against abrasions. Braided cable sleeving, for example, does this too, but if you need easy access to your cables for any maintenance or repairs, then it’s spiral cable wrap that you want.
It’s also cut in a spiral design so that you can route cables at any point from the bundle to a different direction. You can apply the spiral wrap to the re-routed bundle that you create too. Its design and construction also enable your cables to flex and even move around, making them ideal for robotic applications. The concept of spiral wrap isn’t just for cables, either.
Hydraulic spiral wrap protects most types of hydraulic, pneumatic and industrial hose assemblies. If it moves, the spiral wrap is the perfect cable management flexible tube. There’s even spiral wrap for heavy-duty uses, such as what the mining industry requires to protect hoses underground.
Spiral wrap is popular across any industry that involves cables and hoses, such as what we find in automotive. For instance, automotive uses spiral wrap to bundle hydraulic hoses for a neat appearance, while also protecting those hoses from punctures and abrasions.
