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make sure you do, the blades are expensive.I've got some pyros to do in a few weeks time I'm going to try that and see if I can make my last few blades last
if there wasnt a rush id be tempted to use snips for stripping
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make sure you do, the blades are expensive.I've got some pyros to do in a few weeks time I'm going to try that and see if I can make my last few blades last
I'm really sorry Mate the essence of making off MICC is to keep it dry, clean of any grease and that include Vaseline, someone sold you a pup Mate.
1961 it was my first day at work guess what a pyro job, polishing it as it went into a fuse board, non PVC covered in those days, the sparky in charge stripping pyro like there was no tomorrow, and not a tub of Vaseline insight,
I appreciate that's what you have been told, but nothing beats a well sharp and well set up stripping tool "keep it dry and clean" it stuck with me all through my working life, Vaseline indeed.
I too have always used a tiny dab of vaseline, never had any problems presented by it.
I too have always used a tiny dab of vaseline, never had any problems presented by it.
Glad to hear your pulling out dodgy cables, sell it for scrap!
Don't think any of the old hands here will be in the slightest bit surprised by that finding. A MICC cable installation installed by competent electricians will out live the installer and his children, even if taking a few bashes over the years, so long as those bashes don't penetrate the sheath.
Probably the best general small to medium multi core cable size system ever produced
and how many explosions have happened by people dropping inspection lamps in to pits?
i would expect pits to be at least a zone 2 area now so there shouldn't be any standard type portable inspection lamps used
....Why have BICC provided a small tub of vaselin with a pack of 10 terms for the last 30 years. I've not always used it but when I have, a tiny bit on starting the strip hasn't made the slightest bit of difference to the integrity of the stuff....might do if your stripping an inch but I doubt it.
I always thought the tub of lubricant that came in the packet of ends was to help ease the pot on to stop the cable twisting. How many times you heard the screeching noise where someone f**ker is forcing the pot on.
You install and dress it properly, you shouldn't need anything lubricant to strip it with a stripping tool, I use a big screw driver on the bigger gear, using a ringer to get the clean edge.
Smaller gear with a stripper, then ring it off against a pair pliers with the stripper.
.....Why have BICC provided a small tub of vaselin with a pack of 10 terms for the last 30 years. I've not always used it but when I have, a tiny bit on starting the strip hasn't made the slightest bit of difference to the integrity of the stuff....might do if your stripping an inch but I doubt it.
Vaseline has a multitude of uses...
I've never used it with micc, I have used it on bus bar joints, isolator switch blades and fuse carrier blades.
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