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Rubber beading on high voltage cable insulation

From Mike Mocha <mocha@mailexcite.com>
Subject Rubber beading on high voltage cable insulation
Newsgroups sci.electronics.design, sci.electronics.misc, sci.electronics.repair
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Message-ID <xDNBK.51174$BZ1.39624@fx03.iad> (permalink)
Date 2022-07-20 06:53 +0000

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Hey all,

Just curious what you think about this.  The photos at the link are 
showing large gauge wire used on a vintage 600 VDC rail vehicle.  We're 
talking 1930's electric streetcar technology.  Basically 600 VDC connected 
to a knife switch, then to a rotating manual controller which you 
partially see in the photo.  The rotation of it sets up the series and 
parallel stages to the traction motors.

We see this weird rubber beading occurring on the outside of the older 
wire insulation.  I'm not sure what that insulation is made of or how old 
it is.  This only seems to occur on the older wires.  The newer NFPA 
compliant wires don't have this symptom.

What is it and what causes it?  Any theories?  Thanks.

https://imgur.com/a/OqHQV8U

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Rubber beading on high voltage cable insulation Mike Mocha <mocha@mailexcite.com> - 2022-07-20 06:53 +0000
  Re: Rubber beading on high voltage cable insulation TTman <kraken.sankey@gmail.com> - 2022-07-20 11:02 +0100
  Re: Rubber beading on high voltage cable insulation Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2022-07-20 11:10 +0000
  Re: Rubber beading on high voltage cable insulation "ChrisND@privacy.net" <chrisnd@privacy.net> - 2022-07-20 15:40 +0100
    Re: Rubber beading on high voltage cable insulation Mike Mocha <mocha@mailexcite.com> - 2022-07-22 06:21 +0000

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