Snapped earth behind socket, options?

[tabbypurr]

I wonder if you might be making the mistake of thinking there must be a good sensible reason for regulations. If there is one for insulating the CPC, it's a mystery to me.

NT

[Dave Plowman (News]

Careless paging of the conductors when fitting a socket, etc? Although we manage OK without for many years.

[tabbypurr]

I don't know what that means.

[John Rumm]

There is no benefit to insulating its full length in the cable that I can see, but there are sound reasons for insulating it at the point of use. Otherwise there is a real risk that when dressing wires into an enclosure the CPC will make contact with live or neutral. The former is annoying but relatively easy to fix, the latter creating a latent fault that may be lurking and causing grief for years.

[Jimk]

Not much on an earth wire?

[rick]

slightly polish the end of copper to make sure clean and solder on same c/s area piece of copper wire with around 30mm overlap, then sleeve it.