mineral insulated cable repair

[ttelec]

hi all

just looking for some advice a customer has cut threw a mineral insulated cable that was buried in his garden when he was doing some digging its powering the sockets in his shed ,he cant afford to get the cable changed to swa and want's me to repair the current cable its completely snapped in half anyone any ideas how i would go about repairing this please ?

thanks in advance

 

[Guest111]

hi all

just looking for some advice a customer has cut threw a mineral insulated cable that was buried in his garden when he was doing some digging its powering the sockets in his shed ,he cant afford to get the cable changed to swa and want's me to repair the current cable its completely snapped in half anyone any ideas how i would go about repairing this please ?

thanks in advance

you will have to cut out a section and fit new pots glands and seals and replace the damaged section,probably cheaper to replace damaged bit with swa as pyro isnt cheap,mind you neither are pots glands and seals

 

[malcolmsanford]

Unless you have a bit of slack to pull so that you can remake them off into a water proof joint box our going to have to use 2 of these joints and boxes and buy your self a bit of Pyro/SWA for in between

 

[Top Cat]

The biggest problem is knowing the size of the cable and it could be imperial. If you get it wrong then you are left with having to get more glands (that are usually in packs of 10). I would leave well alone as you could spend hours on it, have packs of glands left over and a customer not wanting to pay for what you have done.
Also if you have never done pyro before you will have all sorts of problems.

 

[trev]

Is MICC allowed to be buried these days? Tell your client if he wants the job done he wants to have it done properly, I don't think I've heard anything so ridiculous as buried MICC this month. There's still time of course

 

[kathwilcox]

used to love doing micc, but i'm just weird!

 

[Knobhead]

Is MICC allowed to be buried these days? Tell your client if he wants the job done he wants to have it done properly, I don't think I've heard anything so ridiculous as buried MICC this month. There's still time of course

Last time I looked, you can bury the plastic coated stuff with all the usual tapes, depth, etc.

 

[Tidy Max]

i love doing a spot of MICC, did a bit in Stoneyhurst Church not so long ago, stripped all the insulation off so it looked the part clipped up the wall feeding the speakers!

 

[Lou7]

Why didn't you buy bare ?

 

[snowhead]

used to love doing micc, but i'm just weird!

Me too, and I'm weird as well,

 

[Tidy Max]

Why didn't you buy bare ?

because we have about 6 rolls of varying sizes with insulation on! (i was waiting for that question!)

 

[dagrat]

Really think you will have to install two joints with a link in between. How far is the break from either the CU or the shed?because if close you could joint in a new length of SWA

 

[benji]

pyrotenax RJMZ20 is a brass sleeve with a 20mm thread at each end (internal) which is for inline through joint repair ,but you would need to get 2 glands to fit the cable, if its imperial your on a looser unless you measure od. of copper sheath and compare with metric cable to see if there is a compatable size

 

[Top Cat]

used to love doing micc, but i'm just weird!

Me too especially in the rain!:rolleyes2:

 

[ian.settle1]

used to love doing micc, but i'm just weird!

Not really give me MICC anyday over steel conduit.