amored with no outer plastic.......

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• Aug 2, 2013

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New un on me mate. someone will have an answer for you.
Extending them will surely be just a case of glanding them into a metal box to maintain armouring earth continuity.

 

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• Aug 2, 2013

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as trev said. never come across it myself, but understand it used to be used in the third world, south of birmingham.

 

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• Aug 2, 2013

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If it's in Suffolk then it's understandable...

 

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• Aug 2, 2013

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Ha ha cheers

 

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itselectric

• Aug 2, 2013

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Is the armour as you would find in an swa. Or is it braided

 

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Guest55

• Aug 2, 2013

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i've seen plenty lead paper cable that has a bare swa outer layer , often used for indoor only submains supplies , in large old buildings.

im sure tony will give us the lowdown if he turns up , but i reckon its pilc.

 

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Guest55

• Aug 2, 2013

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as for jointing it.........
best leave it to an old hand.
;-)

 

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• Aug 2, 2013

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Get a pic up if possible never miss an opportunity to share..... )

 

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• Aug 2, 2013

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plenty lead paper cable that has a bare swa outer layer , often used for indoor only submains supplies

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My thoughts exactly. Spidersparks does it look like this? - paper insulated lead covered (PILC) - Resin joint needed.

never miss an opportunity to share

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Naked PILCSWA feast for you...

 

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• Aug 2, 2013

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Lucine Nunes that's exactly what it is thanks very much for the pictures I have one on my phone and on the forum app can't work out how to get it on here but your pictures are very similar

 

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• Aug 2, 2013

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Ive seen some swa cables but without the pvc outer sheath, I have seen it at some 1960s-1970s 400kv/275kv substations, used for submains supplies.

 

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Engineer54

• Aug 2, 2013

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Yes these cables are PILC cables. As far as i know these old PILC cable were never produced with PVC over sheaths, it was always a impregnated cloth type material, damned if i can remember the correct term for it!! lol!!

A similar type cable is ''waveform'', an armoured cable, that the DNO's use or used for LV local distribution network cables...


OP be warned, these PILC cables are not going to be easy to extend, especially if you don't have a pretty good jointing experience in your background. These are the cables that used to have be, lead wiped at joints and terminations!!

Tony's your man there, for jointing experience!!

 

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• Aug 2, 2013

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HEAT SHRINK CABLE JOINTS, PILC SWA CABLE JOINTS, BS6480, PAPER LEAD SHEATHED CABLE JOINTS 3.3KV

 

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• Aug 3, 2013

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snowhead said:

HEAT SHRINK CABLE JOINTS, PILC SWA CABLE JOINTS, BS6480, PAPER LEAD SHEATHED CABLE JOINTS 3.3KV

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All looks very easy doesn't it, now go off and try and make that joint off!! ...lol!! There are all sorts of jointing/termination kit's now for PILC cables, like resin fill, heat shrink, cold shrink and even still, lead wipe.

The first thing i'd like to see, is an inexperienced person splitting and removing the lead sheath to expose the conductors. Not as easy as it first looks, i can assure you!!

I was just looking through some of the components that make up these heat shrink joint kit's you linked too. I was expecting to see heat shrink tubing to cover the individual Paper Insulated cores, (...you don't want that oil impregnated paper drying out) but didn't see any core tubing!!!

 

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