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Gone back to using my old crimping tool as these are useless

 

[Dustydazzler]

Those are for heats shrink

 

[littlespark]

Grill for very small panini. ??

 

[LeeH]

Found this while looking through some old pics.

 

[nicebutdim]

Not so much dodgy on part of original installer, but very much dodgy through the passage of time.

15A socket was still in use until an hour ago.

 

[littlespark]

Did you change it to a 13A, or just done away with it?

Rest of the house of a similar vintage?

 

[Dustydazzler]

NBD you have touched it now you are going to have to price to Re-wire the entire Gaff

 

[7029 dave]

Looks like the insulation is fallen off that vir

 

[nicebutdim]

Did you change it to a 13A, or just done away with it?

Rest of the house of a similar vintage?

Chopped in a few boxes which will be supplied by a new circuit.

I suspect a few parts are still wired in rubber, but most has been replaced.

NBD you have touched it now you are going to have to price to Re-wire the entire Gaff

Radial serving that single socket in that single room.

Looks like the insulation is fallen off that vir

Not enough on the floor to cover the neutral, but it was well separated from the line in that old socket..

 

[Dustydazzler]

Its amazong how much of this rubber cable I still come across that is still in service , its fine until you touch it then it just crumbles in your fingers.

 

[nicebutdim]

Its amazong how much of this rubber cable I still come across that is still in service , its fine until you touch it then it just crumbles in your fingers.

Run from the board was fine and perfectly supple and I didn't expect it to be so bad at the socket. I've seen it crumble before, but this stuff was as hard and brittle as plastic where it had fallen apart.

 

[7029 dave]

Run from the board was fine and perfectly supple and I didn't expect it to be so bad at the socket. I've seen it crumble before, but this stuff was as hard and brittle as plastic where it had fallen apart.

In my experience with VIR it aways crumbles at the end where accessories are connected to it, heat does not help, but the material will just degrade naturally over decades of time.

 

[Dustydazzler]

In my experience with VIR it aways crumbles at the end where accessories are connected to it, heat does not help, but the material will just degrade naturally over decades of time.

I am way to young to have installed rubber twin cable , what sort of age are we looking at now. some of this cable must be pushing 80 - 90 years old and still in service in thousands of homes

 

[7029 dave]

I am way to young to have installed rubber twin cable , what sort of age are we looking at now. some of this cable must be pushing 80 - 90 years old and still in service in thousands of homes

VIR singles were used in domestic homes 1910 to the 1950,s possibly 113 years if still in service

 

[nicebutdim]

They reckoned that house was originally wired in the 50s. Probably about the same age as any I've seen - not sure that many houses around here had electricity before then.

 

[nicebutdim]

VIR singles were used in domestic homes 1910 to the 1950,s 113 years if still in service

That socket was wired in flat 2 core cable, although lighting to room below is still insulated & sheathed rubber singles.

 

[7029 dave]

That socket was wired in flat 2 core cable, although lighting to room below is still insulated & sheathed rubber singles.

Yeah saw that, was dating the VIR singles because I know it was used in the early 1900s, dont think the flat twin was that early not sure. Defiantly used in the 50s as you know I would guess 1930 only because have rewired houses of that era with that type of cable.

 

[LeeH]

How not to make off CY off.

 

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Better not to use it in the beginning

 

[LeeH]

Better not to use it in the beginning

What would you use?