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Re terminating ancient cables

Martyn
Hi Folks, 


So I may have a job in the offing where I will need to temporally re terminate these 3 cables, the one on the right is only 1m long so I’ll just replace it. 


The other two are rising mains from the 1940’s each feeding 20 flats, I believe them to be armoured PILC’s though happy to be corrected, the lead is being used as the earth. 


Has anyone re terminated similar and are there any pitfalls that may scupper me? 


The re termination will only be temporary whilst the new building network is being installed.89f8b92115c4d5d4e672a2d7771fc855-huge-a8ae4b2d-f17a-4e4e-a594-4469fa0801a0.jpg



Cheers 


Martyn
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    Yeah... it's a different installation, sorry, I should have made that clearer. I added the photos to show others the inside of an (identical) cutout.


    The outgoing cables are new. The purpose of the shutdown was to replace the somewhat aged oil switch with a modern HBC fused switch (we realised that the oil switch had never been serviced & nobody was willing to operate it on load!) The pics show the cutout with new cables terminated & waiting for the DNO to re-energise. 


    I initially expected that the DNO would decline to pull the fuses & insist on replacing that metal cutout, but the guy who turned up took a look at it & declared that he was willing to pull the fuses.
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    Yeah... it's a different installation, sorry, I should have made that clearer. I added the photos to show others the inside of an (identical) cutout.


    The outgoing cables are new. The purpose of the shutdown was to replace the somewhat aged oil switch with a modern HBC fused switch (we realised that the oil switch had never been serviced & nobody was willing to operate it on load!) The pics show the cutout with new cables terminated & waiting for the DNO to re-energise. 


    I initially expected that the DNO would decline to pull the fuses & insist on replacing that metal cutout, but the guy who turned up took a look at it & declared that he was willing to pull the fuses.
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