Cable Jacket Repair
Cable Jacket Repair
(OP)
It's late at night, I'm pulling the last cable of the job. I'm walking back along the cable run amd I see a large cut in the jacket.
Apparently the vinyl coating on one of the stainless bands wore through and cut the jacket of the cable. What kind of repair would you do in this case? Luckily the end is only about 25 feet away so I plan to just slide a piece of heat shrink tubing up the cable but what if that was not an option?
For specifics, this is standard 600v shipboard cable with PVC jacket. The diameter is roughly 0.6". Actual voltage conveyed is 24.
Apparently the vinyl coating on one of the stainless bands wore through and cut the jacket of the cable. What kind of repair would you do in this case? Luckily the end is only about 25 feet away so I plan to just slide a piece of heat shrink tubing up the cable but what if that was not an option?
For specifics, this is standard 600v shipboard cable with PVC jacket. The diameter is roughly 0.6". Actual voltage conveyed is 24.






RE: Cable Jacket Repair
Not sure it will go small enough though.
RE: Cable Jacket Repair
RE: Cable Jacket Repair
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Cable Jacket Repair
There are some that are listed from 0.39 to 1.28 inch.
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RE: Cable Jacket Repair
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I usually carefully cut away the damaged jacket and inspect the conductors before I repair, then use two layers, first cut to the same length as the removed cable jacket, put it in place and shrink it down then slide a longer piece over it and shrink it down, i try to have at least two diameters of overhang on each end if possible. If you're going to bend it in a cable tray like you picture you may need to warm it up a bit.
Hope that helps, MikeL.
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No, it's so you can't use a tone generator to trace cable.
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