Name of old wire

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ZapT

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Cape Cod MA
I'm looking for the proper name for the old, delicate wire (romex)that has braided sheathing. The kind of wire we see with extra paper wrap over all the coducters and the smaller size bare CU ground in older cottages or houses.. Also what it is actually made of.The sheathing that is.
 

ZapT

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Cape Cod MA
When writing my reports I'm looking to explain better than "old wire" Any help for an actual name or was it just the Romex of the time. I'm having trouble on google trying to find it.
 

Dennis Alwon

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Chapel Hill, NC
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I always called it nm cable or romex. Romex, as you may know, is just a brand name for NM cable. If I needed to be specific I would call it cloth covered nm cable.
 
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