Repair UF wire

[mscher]

Is there a method to repair a cut UF wire re-seal and re-bury?

 

[MrBigStuff]

Re: Repair UF wire

You can use one of these: http://multimedia.3m.com/mws/mediawebserver?66666UuZjcFSLXTt4Xf24Xs6EVuQEcuZgVs6EVs6E666666--

 

[JB]

Re: Repair UF wire

Dang! I wish I had seen that 15 years ago when I had a veritable plague of UF cable failures. I finally had to rip up about 300' of it and replace the whole thing. The main problem was that it was aluminum wire, not copper, and the various methods I used to try to splice patches in where the insulation had failed weren't any better than the cable itself.

The "new" house (10 years, now) has above ground feed.

 

[i386]

Re: Repair UF wire

Cool, haven't seen that one. 3M makes a lot of different splice kits for many applications. There's bound to be one for anything you might need to bury.

 

[Bob_VT]

Re: Repair UF wire

I have seen the telephone people use a similar set up except they had an epoxy gel that encapsulated the entire splice and not the shrink tubing.

 

[i386]

Re: Repair UF wire

I have seen the telephone people use a similar set up except they had an epoxy gel that encapsulated the entire splice and not the shrink tubing.

Yup...

Well the one I saw wasn't epoxy but it is a two-part mix in this nifty bag that combines the two parts. You pour it into the splice box and tape it up with the included special tape. It congeals into a moisture proof rubbery stuff. You can dig it up later and service it. The gel sort of crumbles away in a nasty mess.

The other one I've seen is a small plastic box that closes like a clam shell. Both halves are full of a similar gel. You just put the splice in there, close the box, and tape it up. Pretty simple for a small cable. The aforementioned one would be for a a larger cable like 50-100 pair.

 

[The_Kid]

Re: Repair UF wire

An old telephone repairman told me this one. Get a tube of 100% silicone chalk and cut it in half and poke each end of the repair into the chalk. Cheap and waterproof.