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No only the cablesI hope you polished the tea kettle while you were at it.
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No only the cablesI hope you polished the tea kettle while you were at it.
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They could have taken the picture off of the wall before installing the cable tray!!
You mean you had cameras, back in those days? lolIt looks like the picture is resting on the unistrut, looks a great job though and it has brought back a few memories, its a shame we didn't take pictures of our works back then.
View attachment 33571 View attachment 33572 View attachment 33573 Few pics of some pyro ---- I came across a while ago.
Thanks AndyMight interest you Pete. An article from Electrical Engineer magazine from 1938 about a relatively new type of cable "Pyrotenax" and its performance after a fire. View attachment 33577
Anyone remember the Pyro Book "Electrician's Mate" a sort of who's who and what's what about Pyro, think it was published Calender Cables BICC
Anyone remember the Pyro Book "Electrician's Mate"
Situation is there's some 53 year old pyro cable that I need to either remove, or make dead, or cut short and push back into the wall having ensured that the still-live end cannot short out the circuit or come into contact with anything.
No hope of fully removing it, as it goes up the cavity and I don't even know the route it takes.
Chances of finding the junction box that connects it to the downstairs power ring are remote, I suspect it connects at a junction box fixed into the wall behind fixed cupboards, next to pipes, in a kitchen, and below the bath (bathroom above the kitchen), however I cannot be sure. I also am not sure I can take the cupboards down without damaging them (I'm no carpenter/kitchen fitter).
SKIP TO THE POINT:
The obvious thing to do seems to be to cut the cable just after it leaves the outside house, fix the end in such a way that it's not going to short the circuit or make live anything it comes into contact with, and shove it back into the wall (then cement over it). I've not had to deal with pyro before, how would you recommend going about this?
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