Old DNO supply

[Smithy33]

Hey guy's,

Anyone ever been asked to price up a new db and found this as a main earth?

 

[westward10]

In all my years never heard that (cab tyre) or vri. Only VIR

Well two people recall cab tyre. These things are a bit connected as the black tough rubber sheath on cables was like Indian cab tyre, vulcanised Indian rubber or VIR. VRI is the correct term.

 

[7029 dave]

Well two people recall cab tyre. These things are a bit connected as the black tough rubber sheath on cables was like Indian cab tyre, vulcanised Indian rubber or VIR. VRI is the correct term.

New to me West, learning all the time.

 

[westward10]

New to me West, learning all the time.

My old mentor actually called it cab tyre and he explained the Indian cab tyre bit, might be bull but he was right on most things or at least he told me he was.

 

[Dave OCD]

Tel, Pete, Dave ocd ,Spoon, your views please.?

I've always known and referred to it as VIR Dave.

 

[DPG]

It is referred to as cab tyre in some of the old electrical books I have. Daz

 

[westward10]

It all seems similar with different names. TRS or tough rubber sheath is also called CTS or cab tyre sheath.

 

[Sparks1962]

Its all the same stuff. The man I was apprentice to back in the '70's who had been in the trade all his working life told me it was CTS (Cab Tyre Sheath), Cab Tyre for short.
He also told me VIR stood for Vulcanised India Rubber, but I guess you could call it Vulcanised Rubber ( India )

In my collection of pre -war textbooks it's referred to as CTS and / or VIR .