I would get problems here with those rules, for fun I still have an electric table fan with new twisted cloth covered wires and an old porcelain plug with no strain relief, It has to be at least from before WWII
dsk,
Personally, if the fabric and insulation is still in good, safe order, I can't see an issue with it.
Back in the day, that stuff was made to last forever!
I have an ancient valve (tube) AM radio here, in my workshop that I suspect was made between the wars, I refurbished it with new capacitors, a new speaker choke (that I had to rewind myself) and a new dial cord was fitted.
It still has the original rubber-sheathed fabric-coated flex which was in brand new condition.
You can't beat the sound that comes from one of these oldies, although it's hard to find something to listen to on AM these days, apart from talk-back radio, some low power community stations and the odd religious station.
I used to listen to the cricket on it during the summer, but now that's all done by streaming on the Net.
