? Oil for cable conduit pull through?

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> Having said that it is always simpler to run singles through conduit

But then you're left with a bare copper strand as the earth though and, in plastic conduit especially, that's not a good idea if you need a proper earth bond at the other end.

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BigWallop
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Well buy a reel of earth single then...

having said that, last time I bought earth sleaving from screwfix it came in a 50m bundle! So you could sleave it yourself.

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John Rumm

When I worked at GEC some years back, we had dustbins full of them on the production lines. I grabbed some handfulls from our engineering model shop when they decided to close it and chuck the contents in the skip. Some 15 years later, I've run out of that stock and as you say, finding anyone selling all the colours now is impossible. I now use the dark grey ones, normally bought from Farnell.

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Andrew Gabriel

All this talk of Hellerman oil, pliers and coloured sleeves ... what mnemonic do 'they' (pc brigade) use to teach the 'colour code' nowadays? I was taught it (by rote) in the early sixties - can't believe the teaching method has survived until this century.

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Brian Sharrock

"Gordon Henderson" wrote | Dave Plowman (News) wrote: | >Other thing might be a medical lubricant safe on latex etc gloves? | >Probably more expensive, though. | KY or something similar? But don't buy in in a chemist - go to a | "country store" (eg. Mole Valley Farmers) and get some cow lube | by the litre, complete with retractable applicator tube...

And watch the assistant's face as you ask "is this condom friendly" ;-)

Owain

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Owain

"John Rumm" wrote | The stuff you want is Yellow 77 Pulling Lubricant:-

Now *that* sounds a useful product ;-) Is it based on pheronomes?

Owain

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Owain

Cheap washing up liquid is thickened with salt.

Reply to
Andy Dingley

wots wrong with KY gel.

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

...........but do they also add something to liquid hand soap to make it more slippy ? (Just as they add silicone to furniture polish)

SWMBO's latest purchase seems very slippery compared to the previous brands.

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Paul Mc Cann

Tastes better than swarfega, , WD 40 or washing up liquid, apparently !!

Nick

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nick smith

"Do you have any flavoured ones?"

Reply to
Ian Stirling

Not at all. I said it was alarm cable - I did not say it was used for an alarm! (It isn't.)

I do recall terrible problems many years ago when petrol pump signal cables were run in the same conduit as the motor power cables, but that's another story... :-)

Rick

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Richard Sterry

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 19:09:56 -0000, "Richard Sterry" strung together this:

Well, what are you using them for then? Doesn't sound very good to me.....

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Lurch

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