what is the worst cable you have stripped?

[shanky887614]

stripped some about 5 X 5pair version of this



swa is fine, the stuff we stripped though was like the one about but it took longer to get rid of the screen because it was tapped as well than the strip and terminate the gland


can't find a picture of the cable as they were existing so i don't know exactly what they were (control wiring)


it had a blue sheath though

 

[Brightspark2]

Some shocking SWA. Outer sheath stuck the armour, inner sheath stuck to the cores, absolute nightmare!....

 

[Plonker 3]

LSF, bloody hate stuff. Working in Shopfitting I work with it far too often.

 

[Thefailsafe2012]

LSF, bloody hate stuff. Working in Shopfitting I work with it far too often.

Yep, the amount of times I've nearly given myself a black eye stripping lsf, specially on a chilly day!

The worst cable I've had to do though is exactly as brightspark says, SWA where the insulation was stuck to the cores and it was a bleedin' mare to strip it all off. It was all made off in trunking as well so I had to strip a fair few feet of it back and all!

 

[trev]

LSF for me too, it's bloody awful stuff. FP is marginally better

 

[shanky887614]

Yep, the amount of times I've nearly given myself a black eye stripping lsf, specially on a chilly day!

The worst cable I've had to do though is exactly as brightspark says, SWA where the insulation was stuck to the cores and it was a bleedin' mare to strip it all off. It was all made off in trunking as well so I had to strip a fair few feet of it back and all!

The stuff today was horrible.

5 pair swa with screen around each pair.

Then another screen around the lot with a lot of tape that snaps when you try to take it off.

Then a pvc layer before steel then a blue layer.

 

[danzor]

Same with the SWA, nothing worse on a cold day picking bits of rubber off cables

 

[WaterSparky]

Sounds like it is for analogues control signals? 4-20mA? Got a reel of this blue stuff in the workshop as a matter of fact. but only 1 pair!

 

[Sintra]

Worst I can remember was a 19 core 1.5mm pyro that had to be stripped 1200mm to get into a BMS panel.

 

[markc123]

When mr.electrician installs the ring-main with absolutley no-slack ... cables get fried, sorry sir i can't just replace the socket, and yes the IR is good now the bad bits are chopped out ... but you still need it re-wired...that's the worst, stripping the cable of its dead ends knowing fine well it's going to be pointless.

Big SWA on a cold day, yep. And then on the other side of the scale ... FP200 - you need a brain surgeons touch not too damage the inside cores...or maybe i can be too rough handed at times lol

When the wholesaler gets a bad batch of T+E aswell, like cutting into a brick.