Flexible electrical isolation device

A method for assembling an isolation link, the method steps comprising:

• mounting a flexible membrane having opposite first and second ends around an elongate dielectric flexible member having a plurality of strands and first and second ends, wherein the first end of the flexible member protrudes from the first end of the membrane and the second end of the flexible member protrudes from the second end of the membrane;
• mounting a first sealing assembly to the first end of the membrane and a second sealing assembly to the second end of the membrane so as to fluidically seal the first and second ends of the membrane, wherein said first and second sealing assemblies' are adapted to couple to a corresponding socket, each said socket having a frustoconical bore, and wherein each said frustoconical bore has an interior surface, a narrow opening and an opposite wide opening, wherein the narrow openings of the sockets are adjacent their respective sealing assembly of said first and second sealing assemblies;
• coupling the narrow end of the first socket to the first sealing assembly and the second socket to the second sealing assembly;
• mounting the first socket to the first end of the flexible member so that the flexible member extends into the bore of the first socket, and mounting the second socket to the second end of the flexible member so that the flexible member extends into the bore of the second socket;
• brooming the first and second ends of the flexible member so as to form corresponding first and second broomed strands of the flexible member within the frustoconical bores of the first and second sockets respectively;
• inserting a liquid fixing agent into the first and second broomed strands and the frustoconical bores of the first and second sockets, so as to substantially fill voids between the rope strands of the first and second broomed strands and between the first and second broomed strands and the inner surface of the frustoconical bore, and so that the liquid fixing agent is uniformly infiltrated into the narrow ends of the first and second sockets;
• then curing the liquid fixing agent to secure the first and second broomed strands within the first and second frustoconical bores respectively, and
• mounting a first coupler to the wide end of the first socket and a second coupler to the wide end of the second socket.