Splicing strip

Most medium voltage cables are made with insulation shield layers that are bonded but easily stripped from the insulation in order to avoid pockets of air at the interface and at the same time to allow easy field handling for termination and splicing (during installation). 

Splicing and racking slack should be considered when making cable length calculations. Optical fiber splice closures typically require 8-10 ft of stripped cable inside the closure. 

Highly oriented PP tapes with splicing into thin strips [2] ... 

With a two-mill set-up, the first mill will roll out the batch and quickly reduce the temperature. It is usual to have an operator on this mill to do several cuts to allow the stock to pass through the nip and then send the stock on a conveyor to the second mill. This mill can be fitted with a stock blender and a variable speed drive so that the stock can be continuously fed into the rubber strip cooler at a constant speed. For example with a 270-litre internal mixer on a 3-min mixing cycle, the speed of a 800 mm x 10 mm strip would be 9m/min. This continuous lower speed allows for better cooling and drying and avoids too many splices in the strip between batches. 

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