Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article . com,
wrote:
What is the best (& most compact) method of joining 2 core 25mm SWA
to
a pair of 25mm tails?

cut

Just cut the outer back to where you need to bend it. Sleeve the
conductors - use the outers from singles if you can't get sleeving.

Many thanks for this & Owain's reply. Very helpful, it's got me off
the hang up about needing to finish the run with tails. Looks like an
amalgam of the suggestions is the way forward.

But please can you clarify the above suggestion - if you cut back the
outer, then presumably you would terminate with a cable gland to get a
neat finish? Presumably it would be OK to clamp the SWA just behind
the gland onto a timber joist with a standard cable clamp? Am thinking
then that the 'loose' unsheathed cable could be run (round quite a
sharp curve)into the CU via a plastic switch box which butts up to the
CU, (with plenty of space inside for ventilation & to avoid a 90 deg
bend).