Plastic Earth Bonding Clamp - Weird but it works! 

youre worried about these things in 40 years? the rest of the building wouldnt even last that long.

To be fair the amount of them that have been hanging off for decades because a plumber been at them is insane atleast this way there half a chance it'll still be ok

They should be tested every 5 years.

​@@ashleypowell966oi some of us plumbers replace for new and put in properly

​@@daftdigitaland of course that happens😂

LOL

Lmao

Dude, you did everything right, according to the safety rules! And what this guy does will be on his conscience when the house burns down from shorting the contact!

​@@Ole-ksiyI think that was the joke indeed!

🤣👏👏👏👏👏

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That's to feed the mice so they don't have to climb up the pipe to chew on the wires.😅

I mean, you wouldn’t clean it mid job, you’d do it at the end, but whatever

Cleanup comes after all other disaplines are complete in the build fool...

​@@don2deliver....or the plastic clamp rather😊

This will be the reason to write out a 19th edition and charge all electricians another couple of hundred for the book and retest. 😂

Atleast this way I don’t have a knobhead attaching a ferrous clamp to my copper pipes, seen that plenty

I don't know how expensive metal clamps are, but in theory this would be cheaper and simpler to manufacture since it's just one piece of moulded plastic. Or maybe they're extrusions? In which case it's even cheaper.

​@@kallan2255 depending on the style they're anywhere from $1 to $3 per clamp when purchased individually.

@@DutchCanPlumbcopper/bronze grounding clamps are standard fare

По сути так делать запрещено)

and all the fast food wrappers from the last week, and why not just bring his bin from home and dump that in the room before he leaves aswell, like a REAL electrician :D

wHy aRe yOu sCaReD oF tHe fUtUrE?

A sad theme I've been noticing for years now. Companies cheaping out, yet charging us more for an often inferior product.

You are slightly incorrect. The broken thing they were trying to fix is the company not making enough money. So they're saving $0.20 on every ground clamp they install thus earning themselves a better bonus check at the end of the year by making our homes more dangerous.

​@@71dembonesTVwHy DoNt YoU UsE YoUr BrAiN ?

@@theshahofiran1323 The DHS removed it as a safety precaution to myself and others

He’s a clean coat 🧥

That tool kit is sold for working with the power on... they have heavy insulation and are bulky and cumbersome for normal work. I have one... but never use it... if the guy in the video was anything else than a salesman demonstrator, he wouldn't either...😂

Yes 100%, as I developed products with thermoplastics and stress/time/temperature cycling takes its toll.

@@adrianshingler9783 not the sun?

@@reahs4815 yes UV is a real problem too, but I would expect the clamp to be used indoors or in cabinets ie little or no sun.

Thats why you have a plastic drill?

@@Mack_Dingo Please tell me you still use a 25 year old DeWalt.

Even Pex uses metal rings.

. . . a clamp, a pair of pliers, a wire stripper, and steel wool is a lot? :0

​​@@nightlight0x07ccjust another keyboard warrior who has failed in both education and life. So they can neither choose a trade or a job and have no motivation to start a business. Leave them.

Can you explain in detail how a piece of plastic clamped to a pipe would fail because of a lightning strike? It's not like any electricity would flow through the plastic clamp..

Then fails after 10 years (if you’re lucky) as the plastic degrades under stress 😢👎👎👎

​@@adrianshingler9783 Does the plastic wrapped around every single electrical cable degrade after 10 years too

С вас 500£

​@@srpacificHow much stress is the pvc insulation under? Or is your reading comprehension that bad?

@@jackster2568 Also leave it outside exposed and ask again in 10 years

Hysterical right? Ever seen a real electrician show up with a space pack full of untouched tools?

@@patrickgatons 😂😂true

​@@patrickgatonsit's probably his first day on the job.... 🤣🤣

Who's to say he doesn't just look after his tools 🤔

@@edwardholmes91if you haven’t ever used any of your tools in a way not originally intended, you haven’t worked in the trades. That bag, and those tools were brand new

Not always true. Depends if it is UV stable.

@@deang5622 plastics don't become brittle just from uv effect, its also from temperature changes. Cold winters have a big effect on plastics

Is that why your Milwaukee impact disintegrates after a few yrs?

If plastic was so unreliable, why the hell we paying more and more taxes on it as it lasts forever if dumped in the ocean. Just to add I prefer the old bonding kits

@@jp-wd9qy What taxes are there on it?

Dude has all of his tools insulated 😂😅

I'm an electrician and I would trust a guy with all insulated tool, actually guys almost never buy insulated tools because they are useless 99.99% of the times because we always work without power

​@@balinoob1837well thats not true now is it.

@@balinoob1837 in Brazil you'd be fried, most home installations asks for no power cut even while working with cables

@@r3co0 Well I dont live in a clown country where safety is a joke and electrician aren't respected enought... here an electrician is the same level as an electrical engineer in Europe

That's not a mechanical clamp, as required by code for ground clamps. It's illegal.

It's not slipping out.... It's wrapping around the pipe. Watch the part of the wire that's in contact with the pipe... It never moves. Just the end part because it's going from straight to curved which makes it appear shorter.

​@@911axe can you explain what a "mechanical clamp" is and also how this clamp ISNT mechanical?

Thing is if the clamp is a metal other than copper, it will corrode. But copper, is pretty flimsy to make clamps and fasteners from...

​@@jackfiercetree5205if it's ul listed for burial electrical work, then it should be fine.

we also see it connected to an actual Ground Rod into the ground not a floating in mid air water pipe LOL

@Fatpumpumlovah2 grounding to copper plumbing was a pretty standard practice. Water filled tubes of copper running into the dirt has as much or more conductivity than a single solid brass rod.

@@jackfiercetree5205 ground rods are galvanized steel with copper coating

use your brain

Nothing lasts forever 😅

We call them hose clamps....

​@@Fpsdoodi think he was being sarcastic.

​​@@IAmThe_RASlathered up with silicone grease, I believe a copper clamp would effectively last forever.

yeah lol when its on a hot water pipe with some insulation and they were a bit off on the formula in the factory its gonna die in 4 years. BUT THE FEA SAID OK!!!!! we WONT PAY FOR YOUR PLUMBING CORROSION REPAIRS BECAUSE YOU CLEARLY MISHANDLED THE COMPONENT LOL. TITLE OF VIDEO : MY BOSS WENT NUKULAR ON THE PHONE TODAY WITH THE CALL WE GOT ABOUT THE PLUMBING

Good luck with that, you must have strong fingers

There appears to be tabs on the sides to prevent that.

The ones I was given years ago were black, no side tabs and came loose with little effort. So I never used them and had forgotten about them until today. I’ve probably still Got them somewhere 😂

This is not really a common clamp we usually use metal ones

lightning strike, been there dosent matter if it's an solid pipe or cable not gonna be anyting left at all or if its metal clamp gonna evaprate

JB's should not be hidden by UK regs

​@@ginvr can't you guys hide maintenance free connections?

@@hannahranga there should be an accessible panel if hidden

BRITTLE PLASTIC CLAMPS. WHY USE COPPER WHEN YOU CAN MAKE DUE WITH DINOSAUR SHIT

@@cdrom1070 NEW AGED FOOLS, hasnt learn from the past yet i guess. America is evolving backwards as far as we can tell from the outside.

BSI British Standards - Zinoglobal zinoglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/BSI-BS-951.pdf

At least it says so on the label he's attaching.

According to the datasheet, they do

SMOKING CRACK IS HOW THIS WAS INVENTED

You run 🏃‍♂️😂

If theres as fire next to the gas pipe you wouldn't hang about

You replace it 🫣

@@thomasramsay5676that’s a fairly typical response from an electrician who doesn’t understand gas combustion.

​@@maxmertonis that ap plumber taking a snipe at a spark 😂

It’s unlikely to be a static shock. Read up on diverted neutral currents 😉

@@maxmerton Well, I wasn’t sure what it’s called. But they get some kind of shock.

@@EpicBenjo It’s important to be certain, because the static shock would not kill you, but a shock from an unbonded pipe cam.

@@maxmerton Oh crap. That ain’t good.

Maybe Britain should stop putting electricity in the shower then

Nobody has time for this. Read like first 2 sentences. Gave u a like for effort tho!

I will pass on taking a blowtorch to the gas pipe, thanks

@@johnaphone lol. Gas meter has a valve that shuts the flow of gas off. You don’t take a torch to pipe with water in it either

having seen the result of a ground fault to an unbonded metallic plumbing system, I'll take the bonding.

@@kenbrown2808 a lot of old installs around here ground the house through water and gas pipes, and people carry on the tradition. (which is what I thought they were doing, verses connecting the pipe to ground rod outside with a clamp that I imagine would heat up under a few amps load)

@@caseyrevoir don't know about the UK, but in the US, incoming water and gas lines stopped being acceptable as grounding electrodes back in the 90s. here, the metallic piping systems are bonded to the equipment grounding grounding system in the panel. that system is then connected to the grounding electrodes, usually through a separate conductor, though that is primarily for convenience.

yeah DO NOT ground to plumbing. Its asking for trouble for someone down the line.

Found the Americans.... this is not a 'ground' as far as you call it.. its a method to detect earth leakage in the pipes in the house... ANY stray current will trip the protection circuit.

Because they're gay tbh , like who cares electrical work is easy as fuck anyways. It's just about getting it done. I'm thinking about becoming an electrician but they seem like the most bitchy people

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@@efixx then I wonder why it comes across like an uncritical sponsored ad instead of an unbiased review. How about actually discussing the pros and cons of this?

NEC requires you to bond metal water and gas pipes to the grounding system. It's just to keep everything at the same voltage and for lightning. We of course still use a ground rod electrode.

@@robertgaines-tulsa Yes I am aware of the NEC requirements and you indeed hit on the main reason to take any grounded components to the same potential. But there is a difference between grounding and bonding which most don't fully comprehend. Using a multi-meter would lad you to believe they are the same, but the purpose and application are different. I brought this up because this channel is from a UK company supplying the UK electrical market. And as it turns out the electrical systems in the UK are much different. They do not require the need for a separate grounding electrode for what we refer to as the equipment ground. They have a situation they call diverted neutral currents. In the US with the slit phased 240/120 volt system, often the neutral conductor going back to the transformer, pulls no current or only the difference between the two line conductors. But in the UK the Neutral needs to conduct every bit of the current being supplied by the line conductor. They bond the incoming neutral to ground through underground piping systems. The problem with this is that this ground can become a conductor and because piping systems are shared across neighboring houses, your neutral return current may actually pass through neighbors; electrical services. This can be your total current usage going through a neighbor's grounding system. In that house, you may shut off the main but break 10's of amps when you open the grounding conductor. So the ground is unknowingly a real current carrying conductor. If your neutral conductor to the transformer becomes broken, you will not know it because it returns through all the parallel neighboring grounding systems. I brought this up because this same channel recently did a video on it and they are trying to pass a law through Parliament to change the regulations. Imagine just how screwed up we would be if Congress were in charge of the NEC code!! But these guys and others post videos like this as if all electrical systems were the same. These clamps may indeed be approved by the BS code, which is the UK version of the IEC code. But I'd bet these are not listed and approved by UL and the NEC, But I'd bet you can buy them!! There is a bunch of stuff approved by the NEC that does not have UL/NEC approvals, but you can buy them. Then IEC is a joke and they are very low standards if you dare call them standards. Few people know that the very large majority of IEC certifications are self-certified by the manufacturer without any third party testing at all. Probably not even tested by the manufacturer. To self certify, you just attest to the fact that it meets their horribly low official standards. Imagine Chinese companies doing this! They are full NEC members. I suspect from what I have seen, the company that runs this channel is probably pretty reliable and honest. But they aren't honest enough to issue a brief disclaimer that what their videos show, is only applicable to the UK electrical market. I'm an electrical engineer in the US who has some exposure to other systems. We spend way more money than dozens of these other countries combined so they are mostly worried about selling their products, whether you can legally use them or not and much the same applies to their practices who answer to other standards.

They are so inexpensive, he does not have to pick them up.