![]() Accept only Scotch #88, no other substitutes for Scotch #33 are worth using. Even without Scotchkote that has kept coax connectors outside dry for me for decades. Stretch the tape so it squeezes onto the wires and fills the gaps and put each layer on with about a 50% overlap. In the old days (Scotchkote is getting hard to find ) they used up to 5 layers of tape with Scotchkote covering all but the outer layer of tape. Take a little more skill than the heat shrink but I've dug up connections and when I opened them up they looked like they were just made. Scotchkote and #33 Scotch tape work pretty well. You'd wrap it around your butt splice and coat with a sticky liquid that came in a 3M can (can't remember the name ) then tape with Scotch 33 tape. I used to use an electrical putty, I think called Scotchfill from 3M. If he left the silicone exposed for a day or so to dry before he buried it should work fine. Even better if this medium will set up hard. The main thing with any buried splice is to have some medium to repel moisture. This does not sound like too bad of an idea. Watched my old boss fix a 110 wire by using wire nuts then taking a tube of silicone for a caulking gun and slicing it long ways, wrapping it around the wire, then taking a roll of electrical tape and wrapping the caulking tube. The power company helped find the problem area and that was what they suggested we use to fix it. It got fixed with the shrink wrap connectors. We cut a 480 volt line to my irrigation pump. ![]() Got mine from water well guys for submersible pump. I spliced some of my wires and they gave me the crimp connectors, the tool to crimp, and the shrink tube to put over it. If you know your electrical guy well enough, ask him for the stuff to fix it. The splice kit like Trucker1 showed will work. Posted 20:03 (#5250554 - in reply to #5250498) Subject: RE: Cut underground 110 volt wire.ĭo not use just the tape and wire nuts unless you want to fix it again, and again. I think the wire nuts or shrink butt connection and a stupid amount silicone around all of it and set up before buried. ![]() Never used them just seen them at hardware/ big box stores Have seen burial wire nuts, have flaps on end and filled with some sort of jelly. Can eliminate having to put in 2 of the kits Trucker1 shows, as well as a short piece of UF wire. It's one of the products on the link below. We have access to a "stretcher kit" through the electrical supplier we use. The heat shrink has a sealant in it, that when shrunk down enough it squeezes out the ends. Use the type of splice kit Trucker1 has pictured. Basically a few heavy butt connectors with set screws and some heat shrink. Running another wire is out of the question at the moment. I had an underground wire cut with a trencher, what is a good way to patch it back together? Someone told me just just use wire nuts then electrical tape but, that doesn't sound like a good idea to me due to moisture getting in the connection. ![]()
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