On 2 Dec, 17:39, "Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:
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* *Andy Dingley wrote:

If that's red & black flexible cable (not just clock innards), then
I'd tend to throw it out! It'll be old and the insulation is likely to
be perished.

Lots and lots of PVC flex had red and black.

Not recently though, and I'm taking "perished" in a broad sense to
include any materials that have failed through age, not to imply that
they're necessarily natural rubber.

My new workshop is an ex-bakery and has effectively no re-usable
electrics. I don't know what's been spilled on some of this stuff, but
there's plenty of PVC in there that's downright _gooey_, not just
tired.