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No you just need elbow grease for them !!!What about running couplers?
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No you just need elbow grease for them !!!What about running couplers?
I knew it I just Knew it bound to get stupid once everyone got back homeI'm off to get some tartan paint and a left-handed screwdriver.
Whenever steel conduit is mentioned it always reminds me of when as a young lad in the early eighties I was working on a school refurb and all the work was in steel conduit/trunking and I had to fit a 3 meter horizontal run at about 2.5 meters high on a inner curved wall fixed with distance saddles. I was dreading it.... racked my brain trying find another route but in the end it had to be. Thinking best get a bundle of conduit for this,going to be a lot of bend pieces of scrap here today. So after a sleepless night and convinced it would all go pear shaped after making sure no one was about and not likley to be for some time I tentatively got my first length of conduit on the bending machine and started,this could have gone so wrong in many ways but to my complete amazement after a few bend it & hope moments it fitted perfectly, straight as a die and followed the contours of the wall exactly, I was pleased as punch and in a great mood all day. It was in the days before phone cameras otherwise I would have so many pictures to bore you with. I never got the praise I thought I deserved even after trying to coast one out of the clerk of the electrical works but to no avail. It's probably all changed again since and no longer there but that little piece of conduit made me so happy......ha..ha..memories eh!It's an art to which (I don't know why) I was very good at. I say was, not touched it for a while
Shame these skills are not being taught any more.I read a post long time ago, chap was saying that conduit work was labourers work. Don't think so.!!
Just to add do not put any more 2 bends or 1 bend and a double set in a run without a draw through point
Forgive me for asking but why was steel conduit not on the curriculum when the OP was training? I didn't think it had been removed. Or was a non-electrical Apprenticeship undertaken?
Trouble today, Andy is all these training courses concentrate on getting as many passes out of the class as possible, the more passes the more money they make, sound business strategy, but it's mostly theory, most of the practical work consists of banging a bit of PVC tube on a wooden wall, clip a few cables here and there, bit of testing and Bob's your Uncle instant Sparkies.I have known it always being a mate's or apprentices job on most sites. And why not ? It's the sort of skill that takes time to master so lots of practice makes sense.
Understand that, but he was referring that qualified Electricians do not carry out that type of work, as if it's beneath them. IMO it takes skill practice to be a master in this work, anyhow they have to be shown, you just can't pick up stocks and dies, bending machine and away you go. I am only talking through my experience.I have known it always being a mate's or apprentices job on most sites. And why not ? It's the sort of skill that takes time to master so lots of practice makes sense.
Understand that, but he was referring that qualified Electricians do not carry out that type of work, as if it's beneath them. IMO it takes skill practice to be a master in this work, anyhow they have to be shown, you just can't pick up stocks and dies, bending machine and away you go. I am only talking through my experience.
You can't buy the running coupler, you make them yourself as and when you need to.
The running coupler is, if I can explain it in words, as follows. imagine you have to join two pieces of conduit by the running coupler method, and you have a MALE end.
On the piece you wish to join there is also a MALE end, extend this thread by tonjust over the length of a coupler and a locking ring or lock nut.
Run the lock nut on to the long thread until you run out of thread, now run the coupler on, you will be left with a MALE end on the conduit that is fixed to the wall, now install the conduit with the coupler and lock nut until the MALE end and the conduit with the coupler and lock nut meet, now turn the coupler onto the MALE end and then lock it in place with the lockring.
I hope that is understandable
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