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Originally Posted by porwolf
I had the same experience with the same kind of stiff canvas covered wiring. On occasion the whole insulation crumpled away especially at the entry point into the wiring boxes. I slipped two layers of heat shrink tubing over the remaining insulation as far into the conduits as possible. This created new insulation right at the most critical point of entry and inside the wiring box for the lenght of the wires. It looked like the wiring inside the original metal conduits, being undisturbed, still did it's job.
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Some things just doesn't make sense but what you did is perfectly fine and it actually protects the wires. But, the big but, is the insurance going to accept it should something goes wrong and they discover what you did up there? That, my friend, put the fear in me.