Has anyone come across a im guessing nylon or cotton braided cable ? I can't identify it but it looks old.
Cotton? braided insulated cable
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Is it VRI or some other type
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Iron flex. is braided.
It depends what you mean by cotton braided cable.
There's the old stuff which is VIR cable
Then there's iron flex
Then you've modern decorative flex which is PVC cable wrapped in cotton
Then there's old high temperature stuff which might even be asbestos
And I'm sure I've forgotten some.
Do you have a picture?
There's the old stuff which is VIR cable
Then there's iron flex
Then you've modern decorative flex which is PVC cable wrapped in cotton
Then there's old high temperature stuff which might even be asbestos
And I'm sure I've forgotten some.
Do you have a picture?
That's VIR. It's a rubber insulated cable that's wrapped in waxed cotton.
I've come across loads of it. What would you like to know?
I've come across loads of it. What would you like to know?
I have took some pics but they are on my phone and can't upload them ATM.
It's running through some 32mm metal conduit supplying a sub main , red in colour.
The earth electrode is also in this cable but because it's clipped outside its in very bad condition and started to go white my first thought was its asbestos insulation.
But my experience of this cable is 0.
I have come across similar in houses usually in conduits but never in use before.
It's running through some 32mm metal conduit supplying a sub main , red in colour.
The earth electrode is also in this cable but because it's clipped outside its in very bad condition and started to go white my first thought was its asbestos insulation.
But my experience of this cable is 0.
I have come across similar in houses usually in conduits but never in use before.
I will upload pics.
What i want to know is before i even get my tester out should this sort of cable be in service?
Obviously not the exterior one.
Oh and is it asbestos? and what is the cable called?.
More pics
The red braided stuff looks like what I have seen in old installations. The rubber insulation is always perished and brittle, usually cracked and sometimes falling off the conductor. It belongs in the skip.
The fluffly white stuff I have seen in very old installations and assumed to be asbestos. As the fibres crumble, release and blow around I would treat them with enormous suspicion, verging on fear.
We had a lot of asbestosis round here in three waves: first the men who worked in the dockyards, followed by the wives who used to wash their overalls and share a pillow, followed by their sons and daughters who had shared a house.
The fluffly white stuff I have seen in very old installations and assumed to be asbestos. As the fibres crumble, release and blow around I would treat them with enormous suspicion, verging on fear.
We had a lot of asbestosis round here in three waves: first the men who worked in the dockyards, followed by the wives who used to wash their overalls and share a pillow, followed by their sons and daughters who had shared a house.
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Is that wiring on the DNO's side?
No. Service cable split con to cutout > PVC 25mm tails to Henley then PVC tails to RCD then this cotton out of RCD.
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