soldering short cable

[empip]

Ye olde 'Wire splicing and soldering' notes...
http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=718769#718769

 

[Softus]

By the sound of it not enough slack, and not enough space, to get the jaws of a ratchet crimper in there.

S'funny - that's the kind of thing that someone would write if they had very little experience of crimping.

 

[emphasis303]

i have another area where i want to add sockets, I have longer cable but it still wont reach so whats the method of crimping to be used?

Thank you

 

[Softus]

...whats the method of crimping to be used?

1. Buy a good quality ratchet crimping tool from a specialist electrical merchant, and a selection of through crimps of the gauge(s) you'll be using, and some shrink-wrap sleeving.

2. Practice on some offcuts of cable. Ask here if you can't work it out.

3. Do your crimping.

4. Cut off and repeat your crimping in those places where you forgot to put the sleeving on the cable first and can't add it afterwards.

 

[Lectrician]

Who votes for a photo?

It would give us all a mutch clearer view of the problem


An after shot would be god too

 

[ColJack]

good post there mod 11, eloquently put...

 

[Softus]

Fascist.

 

[emphasis303]

Will try to get u a photo guys I think i actually promised one somewhere earlier so im obligied to lol

I was talking with a friend last night and he says that he just twists a new length of cable to the short one and it does him quite nicely.

I am sure this is not very safe and would like to know what you guys think.

Cheers

 

[Lectrician]

Will try to get u a photo guys I think i actually promised one somewhere earlier so im obligied to lol

I was talking with a friend last night and he says that he just twists a new length of cable to the short one and it does him quite nicely.

I am sure this is not very safe and would like to know what you guys think.

Cheers

Maybe for a doorbell or kids toy! He is giving a rise to the risk of fire doing that!

 

[Softus]

I was talking with a friend last night and he says that he just twists a new length of cable to the short one and it does him quite nicely.

That's not a friend, that's a dangerous criminal who hasn't been caught yet.

 

[plugwash]

I was talking with a friend last night and he says that he just twists a new length of cable to the short one and it does him quite nicely.

bad idea, such joints will come appart very easilly particuarlly if the cable is solid core and may not provide a very good connection which can lead to overheating and in turn to burnt insulation or softenened (and therefore problematic to join to) copper.

if there is easilly flammable stuff nearby it could even lead to fire though in most cases this is rather unlikely.

 

[emphasis303]

Hi guys

I have taken plugwashes advice on soldering and extending my cable and purchased some high current wire http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ModuleNo=6200&doy=9m2#overview , what I want to know is, once i connected it to the short piece of wire do I then put the other end which is now high current wire into the socket or do i connect another piece of t&e and then connect

Cheers

 

[333rocky333]

Was there not a way of just pulling more cable from under the floor or something. or just moving the socket box over
It seems a lot of effort and you will still have a joined cable,

I think You was meant to join it to the same type of cable, that would then of gone into the socket ,NOT two joins
Just checked , Seems you changed from the way you earlier said to plugwashes way,
i would say he meant take the stranded into the socket then

Try to get done as when the 17th regs come in , you will afaik need ferrules or similaron multicore cable

A photo of the cable and situation days ago, you would have got this sorted by now

Surely you now have a section of the ring with a different bs rated cable .

 

[emphasis303]

Hi

no it was in a wall no conduit, I know what an idiot I am, I went to take the photos and a nice flashing signal that no memory card, I had lent it to my nephew about 3weeks ago and since I never needed to use it i didnt realise untill now. I could have finished this but I didnt manage to find time untill now so am just double checking everything.

So to confirm the high current wire goes into the socket?

 

[333rocky333]

appears so but not too sure what others will think about the cable mix.