Burnt conductor found during testing.

[echoes]

Not a plea for help, but I was testing continuity of my upstairs ring final today after removing a socket from it. Line was broken, and traced it to this:

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• echoes
• 24 Oct 2010
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• echoes
• 24 Oct 2010
• 2

It's a bit blurred, but the red conductor is badly burnt and open circuit.
Also noted the bell-wire going to an old clock point. Now also removed.

(The wallpaper is also not long for this world )

 

[SparkoJon]

Retro wallpaper there

 

[SgtTrojan]

It's that old it has come back in!

 

[jaysean1]

The cable on the left looks like a imperial stranded cable
(pic no.2)

 

[1john]

The cable on the left looks like a imperial stranded cable
(pic no.2)

yup, thats a 7.029 on the left and a 2.5 on the right.

 

[echoes]

Spot on. The 2.5 mm² cable is an extension to the ring to serve a double socket in the kitchen into which a washing machine was plugged. Not only was that terminal burnt, but the 'new' cable was very twisted, junction boxes wired like spaghetti, no earth sleeving.

I wonder how long it has been like that, and being a ring of course, no symptoms.

 

[ColJack]

rip it out and start again.. good time if you're decorating..

 

[echoes]

Yup - the whole ring circuit has gone now and been replaced by 3 new radials.

 

[securespark]

Spot on. The 2.5 mm² cable is an extension to the ring to serve a double socket in the kitchen into which a washing machine was plugged...

Yup - the whole ring circuit has gone now and been replaced by 3 new radials.

WOW! Swift work!

 

[echoes]

Well not really that fast - I found that fault after first fix of the new radial circuits while decomissioning the old ring one socket/room at a time (1 room = 1 single socket!).
The radials were ready in the wings all along!