Quote Originally Posted by brassbuster View Post
Not likely asbestos, and should be older house wire. Most of the wire we buy like that is a tar, rubber based cloth covering. As for not being shiny most of this wire is tin coated.
What brass buster said.

No, it's not in use anymore.

What year was the house built? My rental house was built in the 1940s and used to have that wire, with the old fuse boxes with the round fuses. If you ran out of fuses you stuck a penny in the fuse socket. Lol



It's going to be #2 copper once you get it all stripped. There is no easy way to strip that stuff.