Non-copper wire in ring main - thanks

Hi folks,

Thanks to those who responded to my earlier about possibly non-copper wire in my ring main.

Now I've managed to hawl some out, I can see that it is indeed copper inside after all, possibly coated with tin. As one poster suggested, there are 7 strands.

The rewiring of these particular rooms by a past owner must have been at a time when this kind of wire was used. My recent work hasn't replaced all of it, but as part of adding sockets to my wife's study I now have one less room with the stuff.

This is a good thing - it's surprisingly hard to wire a socket with all those strands jumping about.

regards,

Ewan

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Ewan MacIntyre
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Sometime around 1970 IIRC.

You should twist them all together. There's no necessity to remove such cable just for the sake of it -- I'm aware of an installation done in the late 1950's, and the PVC cable is still perfectly OK.

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Andrew Gabriel

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