Mixed wiring colours

[eamonn1983]

When working on an installation with mixed wiring is it adviable to sleeve the conductors if two differant colours are present at the same accessory or is it ok to just place a mixed wiring notification at the db?

 

[MDJ]

When though?

red yellow and blue would have been late sixties to seventies so white would have been 50-to late 60s, VIR cables were pre 50 along with black rubber, perhaps some of the older guys here can confirm, but that is what I think regarding age of white in the 3 cores.

 

[Geordie Spark]

When though?

Well he was trained by Michael Faraday if that helps......

 

[LeeH]

I preferred the older red white & blue .. it was more patriotic.
A gentle reminder of when Britain was Great and we had an empire.

Well before my time!

 

[markc123]

Bring back the Red Yellow and Blue I say.

I think it was more of a gentle reminder when it was all new to us all.

Bloody Europe!

 

[tazz]

Well he was trained by Michael Faraday if that helps......

Alexandra Bell was at college with him at the time....

 

[telectrix]

yeah, but he wasn't at college with geordie, same as what swan was.

 

[markc123]

when I was training I saw lots of red white and blue cables, very common at one time.

When though?

The 'white cable' these todgers are on about, was a candle! back in the days, before e-lec-tricity...

hahaha

:leaving:

 

[MDJ]

very early eightees I was assisting a spark who was rewiring houses with white wires in the 3 cores, the installations could have been 30 years old I suppose so I suspect the cables went in during the 50s

 

[telectrix]

so in yorkshire, that was last year then?

 

[markc123]

so in yorkshire, that was last year then?

Power cuts are down to once a day now ... arnt int country

 

[Skimpy Wan]

Sorry to jump in the thread, but we've been inspecting and testing a hotel today and it had all lighting feeds in a cloth, woven cable with no earth. I'm intrigued as to what this cable is called and what ages these could be?

 

[markc123]

Sorry to jump in the thread, but we've been inspecting and testing a hotel today and it had all lighting feeds in a cloth, woven cable with no earth. I'm intrigued as to what this cable is called and what ages these could be?

Was it gold ?

 

[Skimpy Wan]

Red woven cloth and I think the other a brown / black?

 

[Des 56]

Like all changes,getting used to a yellow core instead of the white took time
The cable colours have changed quite often and usually the colours you get to know initially are the ones that are fondly remembered

Here is a link to a post (USA) it gives an insight into colour codes that few (including myself) have knowledge
Wire colour coding abroad scroll down to post 5 on that page

 

[tazz]

Sorry to jump in the thread, but we've been inspecting and testing a hotel today and it had all lighting feeds in a cloth, woven cable with no earth. I'm intrigued as to what this cable is called and what ages these could be?

around 1940`s, cloth over indian rubber, were always run surface