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Evening all, found a strange one today, pulled a few ceilings down in a property and found that the clips had melted! Not just on one circuit, it’s on 2 Different lighting circuits, a radial and the gf ring! Going to do an ir tomorrow morning just ran out of time today. Any thoughts or seen it before? I’ve only ever seen it if one radial has been cooked but not on multiple circuits. Picture attached ? interested to see what you guys think

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Seen this many times, is the property circa 1970 ?

Note to self...... i should read the title of thread.... but this chemical reaction did happen in the 70's and not just to cable and clips..........
 
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A lot of electronics have cases made of polystyrene, if they have been stored for a few years with the power cable wrapped around it the cable often 'melts' into the case. I have several pieces of audio equipment cosmetically damaged in that way.
 

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