source for Grommets

Two sources here,not had a look to see if they sell gromm's but also have a look for rubber tubing that has a split down the length of it,cant remeber the name but its used for protecting ally plates edging.

Just wondering but wouldn't you want to also take the sheath into the box via the grommet to maintain the 'seal' if you like against the outer skin?

Some silicone around that or better maybe a 'strain relief' grommet (the ones with the thin rubber tube joined to the grommet bit) that you could put a small cable tie round and maybe over wrap with some self amalgamating tape?

All the best ..

T i m

The price of 100 grommets from CPC is probably less than the price of 20 from some retail store. In that situation, I'd buy the 100, and either keep the rest for a rainy day (!) or Freecycle them.

Seems like the best bet use what you want, put the others on eBay, Freecycle or keep for other projects (I'd do the last...).

erm, is this outside? In which case you really ought to be using a proper gland and taking the entire cable through it into the fitting.

Nasty horrible bodge.

Shokk

Strip some twin and earth cable and use the rubber sheath as a make shift grommit by lining the hole with the stripped outer sheath. Makes a useful u section after it has been stripped by using the central earth cable! Regards Legin

HiTuff ... if you have not used it ... is like a standrd 3 core cable, i.e. pvc outer sheath, it also has a 2nd very tough thick outer sheath. This is inflexible ... too inflexible to feed into the light fittings. The HiTuff runs along behind a 12" thick block wall ... it passes through drilled holes in the wall to pass to front skin ... where there is a one brick opening .... I have removed the outer sheath such that it is only removed after about 4" into the drilled hole.

This was my reason anyway.

There is no requirement for this ... not knocking the idea, but certainly no requirement.

In fact the lights come with a grommet for installation... just too small for cable I'm using.

I'm not an expert on Hituf, but have a look at this...