Actually that is probably the best solution. You can buy sleeves which shrink when heat is applied. usually one would use a heat gun but with a little patience a blow style hair dryer will do as well.
----- Original Message ----- From: "RJ" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 9:41 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Underground electricity cable > You can get a sleve for this purpose. Any place that sales pump equipment > should have this in stock. The phone and electric companies use this > method > and so does the people that put in submershable water pumps. > RJ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jewel" <[email protected]> > To: "bhm" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 8:34 PM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Underground electricity cable > > >>I have widened a gateway under which runs the cable carrying the >>electricity to my hot wire fence. >> Consequently, I have had to extend the cable. >> Preventing the joint from coming in contact with water and soil: both >> implacable enemies of >> electricity: is the essential component to making the extension work. >> What I have done is to drill a hole in the lid and bottom of a plastic >> jar: fed the cable through >> the holes so that one cable has the lid threaded on to it, and the other, >> the jar itself. I then >> clamped the two cables together and pulled the cable back so that the >> clamp is enclosed within the >> jar and screwed the lid on. >> I haven't reburied the cable yet, as I wanted to know if you think that >> what I have done, to date, >> is sufficient protection. >> When I do dig the cable back in, I plan to put a brick on either side of >> the jar so that, if a >> vehicle should pass over top of it, it will be the bricks that will take >> the weight, leaving the jar >> unhurt! >> I would have preferred to use a glass jar, but I did not know how to >> drill >> a hole through glass: >> hence the ubiquitous plastic jar. >> If I had used a glass jar, its life within the ground would be very long, >> but what about the >> plastic. >> It is not too late to change the jars if anyone can tell me a good, safe >> way to drill through glass! >> Any better ideas will be studied and evaluated for their betterness! >> >> Jewel >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Send any questions regarding list management to: >> [email protected] >> To listen to the show archives go to link >> http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 >> Or >> ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ >> >> The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. >> http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday >> >> Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various >> List Members At The Following address: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ >> >> Visit the archives page at the following address >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following >> address for more information: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/ >> For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man >> list just send a blank message to: >> [email protected]! 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