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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Porterlauren on April 27, 2014, 10:23:02 pm

Title: Can anyone source cable drums?
Post by: Porterlauren on April 27, 2014, 10:23:02 pm

Hi Everyone..... :wave:

I am trying to source some cable drums, various heights/sizes and in the south west area, just finding it very difficult to find any :-/

Any ideas???   :eyelashes:

Cheers :)

Title: Re: Can anyone source cable drums?
Post by: mab on April 27, 2014, 10:29:49 pm

You could ask at electrical factors who sell cables by the metre. Though most domestic cables are supplied on small cardboard bobbins, the heavier armoured cables tend to be on wooden drums.


If you have a local depot for western power distribution (or whomever it is down there) they might have some big ones to dispose of, maybe

Title: Re: Can anyone source cable drums?
Post by: Lesley Silvester on April 27, 2014, 10:32:29 pm

There are a fair few for sale on ebay but they are not cheap.

Title: Re: Can anyone source cable drums?
Post by: AndynJ on April 27, 2014, 11:17:52 pm

Ring a large electrical company or CEF wholesalers they will give them away

Title: Re: Can anyone source cable drums?
Post by: plumseverywhere on April 28, 2014, 03:18:19 pm

was eyeing one up this morning on the back of a flatbed trailer till hubster dragged me away - do they really give them away? are they not reusable?

Title: Re: Can anyone source cable drums?
Post by: bloomer on April 28, 2014, 04:07:01 pm

its not usually worth the cost of returning them to the manufacturer (they're like non standard pallets in that respect) cheaper to make new ones than ship them back...