What cable is that? Coming from the gland?
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Which was the driving force behind me getting a set of tools and wanting to give it agoAnd to think they dropped it from the nvq silibus
Is there a way it can be done retrospectivelyFitted to seal the compound in the pot.
Not sealed properly, the conductors are not solidly separated.
Looks like the compound's solidified but moving the cores could cause serious problems,
Is there a way it can be done retrospectively
TBH I find it hard to believe the disc is missing. It does look 1960s which makes it imperial cable. They would be headed sleeves that pass through holes in the disc and the disc would be paxolin. That is why there are no bulges in the sleeves nor a rigidly parallel approach, and why the small area between the sleeves that is not plastered with compound looks brown rather than black.
I can see crimp marks too. One would have to be remarkably absent minded and unobservant to crimp a pot without a disc in. Especially with headed sleeves which you have to pull against the inside of the disc before crimping, which would just pull off without it.
My money is on it being correct but smothered in compound. But if the disc really is missing, no it's not OK. The slightest movement could cause a short, and it's probably not sealed so the IR will be very low.
possibly just not the black we're used to seeing - could be discoloured from heat over a number of years
I have seen it used quite a lot. I had some here but it had gone hard so I threw it out.Anybody remember the compound being green?
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As others have said, it is a fantastic cable in many ways, but cost and skill level needed to use it makes it pretty rare now.Why was it done like that in old buildings?
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