History lesson please!

[GBDamo]

Found this today, anyone know it age and story?

It looks solid enough but is it a concern?

 

[ChrisElectrical88]

It’s that old there’s no picture ?

 

[GBDamo]

Pictures words words
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It’s that old there’s no picture ?

Give me a chance, still drawing

 

[littlespark]

MICC joint? Are those rigid cables?

 

[GBDamo]

MICC joint? Are those rigid cables?

No is an incomer, looks PILC, but not sure.

 

[telectrix]

it's a flux capacitor for a delorean. an early model from 1885.

 

[GBDamo]

it's a flux capacitor for a delorean. an early model from 1885.

I'll be honest, at first glance I thought it was plumbing related.

Its only when I surgically opened the wall up and saw the fuses I looked closer.

 

[davesparks]

Does a PILC cable enter the bottom of the cylinder? And are those 4x VIR ty0e cables coming out of the top feeding in to cutouts?

It looks like it is a just an unusual cable end sealing chamber and joint onto the VIR, almost certainly filled with pitch. I've seen similar on old lead telephone cables but not on a mains PILC yet.

 

[GBDamo]

Does a PILC cable enter the bottom of the cylinder? And are those 4x VIR ty0e cables coming out of the top feeding in to cutouts?

It looks like it is a just an unusual cable end sealing chamber and joint onto the VIR, almost certainly filled with pitch. I've seen similar on old lead telephone cables but not on a mains PILC yet.

It looke like PILC and has the earth on the sheath. There's only about four inches exposed before it enters that chamber.

 

[davesparks]

It looke like PILC and has the earth on the sheath. There's only about four inches exposed before it enters that chamber.

then I suspect it is just a sealing chamber full of pitch, i just haven't seen one like that on a mains cable before, only on telecoms cables.

I wonder if this was a 'not quite legitimate' connection originally?

 

[Dave OCD]

I'll be honest, at first glance I thought it was plumbing related.

Its only when I surgically opened the wall up and saw the fuses I looked closer.

Surgically ? I sincerely hope I never get operated on by a surgeon like that.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

Seen a few of these. Not sure any in London but Manchester & Leeds IIRC. Unfused, unmetered VIR singles are obviously rather vulnerable to tampering so I suppose not favoured by DNOs. Inline sealing chambers are much more common on PILC submains, although more usually to a conduit spout rather than this distinctive style with the vulcanite bung.

Would like one for the collection!