{"id":5111,"date":"2020-07-21T11:44:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T15:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/?page_id=5111"},"modified":"2026-01-21T14:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:08:18","slug":"core-sampling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/applications\/core-sampling\/","title":{"rendered":"Core Sampling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heat shrink tubing offers a great way to encapsulate and preserve core samples for oil and gas exploration. Heat shrinkable tubing molds itself around the core sample, creating a hard covering that helps maintain sample integrity until it is ready for analysis. Our heat shrinks provide abrasion resistance and solid encapsulation to stabilize core samples, minimize mechanical disturbance, and aid sample handling.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"yellow button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/contact-us\">REQUEST A SAMPLE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>FEP Heat Shrink<\/h2>\n<p>FEP heat shrink for core sample encapsulation provides sturdy containment that is optically clear and strong.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/materials\/fep\/\">FEP<\/a>\u00a0is highly resistant to almost all common acids, bases, and hydrocarbons and has low gas permeability to prevent outside factors from invading your sample after encapsulation.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/products\/heat-shrinkable-tubing\/fep-21-heat-shrink\/\">FEP heat shrink<\/a>\u00a0has a lower recovery temperature than similar high-performing heat shrinks, such as PEEK and PTFE, but can still tolerate working temperatures up to 392 \u00b0F (200 \u00b0C).<\/p>\n<h5>Key Benefits and Capabilities:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Custom Colors Available<\/li>\n<li>Available in 1\/2&#8243; \u2013 7\u2033 Diameter (Expanded ID)<\/li>\n<li>Nominal Recovered Wall Thickness of 0.020\u2033 (0.51 mm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Other Heat Shrinks<\/h2>\n<p>We also offer additional high-performance\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/products\/heat-shrinkable-tubing\/\">heat shrinks<\/a>\u00a0that are suitable for core encapsulation. Contact us to learn more about our heat shrinkable tubing and to discuss your specific needs.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"yellow button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/contact-us\">REQUEST A SAMPLE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heat shrink tubing offers a great way to encapsulate and preserve core samples for oil and gas exploration. Heat shrinkable tubing molds itself around the core sample, creating a hard covering that helps maintain sample integrity until it is ready for analysis. Our heat shrinks provide abrasion resistance and solid encapsulation to stabilize core samples,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":5144,"parent":5075,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-specifications.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5111","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5111\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}