Lead Singles Cable

[flyingsparks]

i have a job rewiring an old ship - it currently has lead sheathed cable with what looks like a single core with perhaps a cloth insulator? It dates back to the 1940’s.
Originally it was all 110v dc. The lighting has now been converted to 24vdc and The customer would like to keep a lot of the old switch gear and cables etc as this is going to be a bit like a museum ship open to the public.
My first thoughts were to wire the additional bits in bare MI.
Is there any way to terminate some of these old lead ends where someone has chopped them off?
Ideas and thoughts ?

 

[securespark]

Proper craftsmanship there!

What's the IR like?

 

[flyingsparks]

Proper craftsmanship there!

What's the IR like?

I don’t know as I have only had a quick look so far.

It’s nice isn’t it?! It’s in the last surviving steam ship in the world. Being refurbed.

 

[crystal ball]

The clipping and cable runs take me back, I served my time in shipbuilding and spent hours clipping (rubber insulated) cables in neat runs, no crosses, twists or sharp bends were the rules, clips were made by a clipmaker from profiles sent from the drawing office

 

[JohnW2]

It’s nice isn’t it?

Indeed it is!

It’s in the last surviving steam ship in the world.

I must say that I find that very hard to believe.

Kind Regards, John

 

[davelx]

I assume the Stanley knife is for emergency isolation?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

The customer would like to keep a lot of the old switch gear and cables etc as this is going to be a bit like a museum ship open to the public.

Until I read that my advice was going to be

Make off with that panel, clean it up, and sell it as a steampunk item.

Do they want to keep it in use, or just for show?

 

[Jackrae]

Not in Princess Dock in Glasgow by any chance ?

 

[flyingsparks]

Until I read that my advice was going to be

Make off with that panel, clean it up, and sell it as a steampunk item.

Do they want to keep it in use, or just for show?

In use at 24v if possible.

 

[flyingsparks]

Not in Princess Dock in Glasgow by any chance ?

No it’s in Devon

 

[flyingsparks]

The clipping and cable runs take me back, I served my time in shipbuilding and spent hours clipping (rubber insulated) cables in neat runs, no crosses, twists or sharp bends were the rules, clips were made by a clipmaker from profiles sent from the drawing office

Do you have any recollection of this type of lead cable or the glands etc?

 

[flyingsparks]

Indeed it is!
I must say that I find that very hard to believe.

Kind Regards, John

More info can be found here if interested.
http://www.ssfreshspring.co.uk/

 

[JohnW2]

More info can be found here if interested. http://www.ssfreshspring.co.uk/

Thanks ...

"...the only surviving example of the 14 Fresh class water carriers built by Lytham Shipbuilding and Engineering Co for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA)" is rather different from ...

It’s in the last surviving steam ship in the world.

... which is the statement I questioned.

I didn't have to do any guessing - a friend of mine is passionate about steamships, and spends much of his spare time travelling around the country (and beyond) to see working steamships!

Kind Regards, John

 

[Jackrae]

The one in Princess Dock (if it's still there) is/was the TS Queen Mary. No not that one !! A 'Doon the Water' day out passenger vessel that had to relinquish its name when the liner Queen Mary was named. So the lesser one became Queen Mary II. I believe now that that Queen Mary is no longer a sea going vessel, the original Queen Mary has got her name back. I recall sailing on her sometime in the last 50s
See https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-36292970 and
http://www.tsqueenmary.org.uk/history.htm
and lots of youtube videos for those interested "youtube TS queen mary"

 

[flyingsparks]

Thanks ...

"...the only surviving example of the 14 Fresh class water carriers built by Lytham Shipbuilding and Engineering Co for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA)" is rather different from ... ... which is the statement I questioned.

I didn't have to do any guessing - a friend of mine is passionate about steamships, and spends much of his spare time travelling around the country (and beyond) to see working steamships!

Kind Regards, John

Excuse my mistake - I was only going on what I thought I heard.