Hello peeps

i am trying to locate the name of a product.

You know those steel twisted cable devices that the DNO use for suspending their cables with,

does anyone know the name of them please.

Pylons -

OMS

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Failure is always an option

Hello, the only things I can think you mean are called 'pre-forms'. In our area tho they are used mostly for attaching pole stay wires to the insulators. Tho I think I can remember in the west mids a few years ago using them for overhead services, where as in the east mids we used ABC for services so didn't use them on cables them selves. On another note BT might use them tho.

Tho I could be completely wrong.

Regards

Ian

I have seen something like that on BT overhead lines where they attach their cable to the barge board, no ideat what they're called though,

Dave.

If memory serves me right I think you will find they come under the group name of 'dead ends' plenty of variety.

regards

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Helical dead end mounts or if you want a different type, wedge dead end mounts - well remembered, funkmeister -

OMS

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Failure is always an option

LOL Thats the ones Bro.

regards

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leave nothing but footprints!"
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"Oh! The drama of it all."
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"You can throw all the philosophy you like at the problem, but at the end of the day it's just basic electrical theory!"
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smashing guys thanks

Made my night, little things!

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Martyn.

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Good one OMS - that made me laugh

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Regards,
Ebee (M I S P N)

Knotted cables cause Lumpy Lektrik

err ........

Do you mean eyelets used to tighten up catenary wires?

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If so you can purchase them as a kit.....

'Pylons' !

I think you have spent too much time in the office staring out of the window

Legh

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OMS

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BT do use them. They were originally "preformed ends" made by an American company.

You have to wrap the "ends" around the wire and not the wire around the "end thingy" for best results.

Terence.

I think you will find they were originally catalogued by BT as 'spiral drop ends' and we when I was playing with the big boys catalogued them as 'spiral dead ends' mainly used for cables that had a steel core insert.

They were originally manufactured in their thousands in Walsall and I know the machine, at the back it had two rolls of wire of many thousands of metres, one in use and the other ready for the operator to feed in when the roll expired, the overhead crane removed the emply reel and replaced it with a full one, they fell out of the machine into the box in less than a second.

They were originally manufactured from galvanised steel wire but as stainless steel become more abundant and cheaper this became the preferred medium.

The most common slang term for these items by workers was 'Curly Wurly's'.

As far as I am aware they still come out of the Walsall area probably under the umbrella of Cooper Industries but these days with so much outsourcing they could be manufactured elsewhere.

regards

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"Take nothing but a picture,
leave nothing but footprints!"
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"Oh! The drama of it all."
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"You can throw all the philosophy you like at the problem, but at the end of the day it's just basic electrical theory!"
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Edited: 22 February 2013 at 02:17 PM by rocknroll

i have found them...

cheers