- Reaction score
- 2,046
Has anyone come across black PVC twin lighting cable before? Working in a house, probably late 50's/early 60's yesterday and found all the lighting wired in black twin PVC cable. No cpc, solid tinned copper core.
I immediately assumed rubber when I saw it but it didn't feel like rubber at all. Quite the opposite. Almost certainly PVC. No signs of any insulation coming off as you would expect with rubber. Very difficult to strip actually. I couldn't pull a conductor to strip away the sheathing, I had to run a knife down the middle.
Never come across this before in 15 years of doing this! Anyone else?
I immediately assumed rubber when I saw it but it didn't feel like rubber at all. Quite the opposite. Almost certainly PVC. No signs of any insulation coming off as you would expect with rubber. Very difficult to strip actually. I couldn't pull a conductor to strip away the sheathing, I had to run a knife down the middle.
Never come across this before in 15 years of doing this! Anyone else?