Ok to spray paint on cables?

[Harry Bloomfield]

Schools, businesses and homes the length and breadth of the country are stuffed full of wires covered in emulsion paint

He wasn't suggesting the use of emulsion paint!

 

[robinbanks]

Hah, no.. but I was!

Spray a test batch or on an offcut of cable. I think it highly likely nothing bad will happen; if you dug into it you’d probably find that the aerosol nozzle / stem of the spray can is also PVC, which would be a poor thing to make a nozzle from if the paint attacked it

Spray from afar and use plenty of coats. Sidebar, the last spray I used was water based too

 

[amfisted]

Hah, no.. but I was!

Spray a test batch or on an offcut of cable. I think it highly likely nothing bad will happen; if you dug into it you’d probably find that the aerosol nozzle / stem of the spray can is also PVC, which would be a poor thing to make a nozzle from if the paint attacked it

Spray from afar and use plenty of coats. Sidebar, the last spray I used was water based too

Thanks, but if I’m going to the trouble of putting down dust sheets then wire brushing and applying rust inhibitor/ converter to the metal roof supports, then the least I can do is finish off with paint substantial enough to protect the metal from the kind of atmospheric conditions you tend to find in a draughty, 1960s sectional concrete garage.