what is the worst cable you have stripped?

[Fin170]

VIR/cloth/ rubber crap in old conduit, never intentional to strip it though, as soon as the accessory is moved the cable is written off

Have also stripped SWA which would not come away from the armour and smelt like cat ****

and SY flex.....which is just crap

 

[ipf]

10mm 3 core pyro, damaged due to industrial kitchen fitters. Came out of a piece of 25mm conduit, presumably protecting it as it came out of the concrete floor. One core had snapped off at the pot/disc, another hanging on by a thread. About a foot of cable to work with. After about a couple of hours trying to re strip and pot, the cable ruptured where it came out of the conduit.
Thankfully, it was a job trying to rescue other peoples cock ups and I got the job of replacing the supply with swa, fed from above.

 

[Robotstar5]

Cheap XLPE SWA, everythings stuck together, you can't ring the core insulation and pull it off as it's stuck to the copper, even the copper itself seems "harder" to work/bend.

 

[overskilled]

SWA with that sellotape plastic between the cores and the PVC sheath under the armour...horrid stuff
especially with Niglon glands...I hate those things with a living passion...stupid design, try to tighten, cores pop out due to no lock ring.thrown a few supplied ones away and replaced with tower glands...

Old pyro I hate too, especially when a socket has been in and out in and out 10 dozen times before...

H05RR-F...not too bad to strip but don't like the smell

 

[Des 56]

A armoured cable that had no outer sheath and was frozen solid

The cable may in fact have been easy to strip, I will never know, but my frozen pinkies told me it was a nightmare
I learned from the experience,I decided I never wanted to become a cable jointer in Siberia

 

[Sintra]

Remember doing a couple of bootlace SWA's into isolators in Prague during the winter. Was -23 and a total pain fingers were numb after a minute.

 

[Des 56]

Remember doing a couple of bootlace SWA's into isolators in Prague during the winter. Was -23 and a total pain fingers were numb after a minute.

I bet the nights out as a single in Prague made the pain that much easier to bear

 

[Sintra]

Well I must admit working in Praha for 8 months was fun lol

 

[Robotstar5]

Probably the "fiddlyist" (is that a word) I have done was 3 cables each with 7 x 7 cores (total of 147 cores) made off into high density Harting plugs. I hated having to fit the spare to a machine as I knew it would take me the next 2-3 shifts to make a new one!.

 

[gnuuser]

pulling an IS machine controller cable and pinning it in the connector
1 inch thick cable of 50 conductors
a beast to pull through raceway as it very heavy