A first class demonstration of steel conduit installation at its very best... ( been a long time since I did some).... maybe 25 years. That young man must do that day in,..day out to be that perfect,... My hat is off... Great work. .. Ultimately skillfull.
Back in the day I added an inch and 3/4 to the back of the bend mark and put that on the back of the former .bend it ,job done .Also you can add two and a 1/4 for bending 25mm conduit .works every time
I like how he keeps looking at the camera everytime he says something to the other guy somehow reminds me of those cheesy shows from the 90s love it, adds a lot of unique character nowadays
What you were calling a "pop rivet" wasn't! It was a Nutsert or blind threaded insert. Similar but not identical device and process. Could have used a long reach pop rivet through the saddle though. 🤔😁
Good job there Gary, got to keep the young lad on his toes. The food doesn't eat it's self someone has to make sure it doesn't spoil and what was that bristley thing you had at the end ? I have seen someone with one before, they said it was for cleaning !
Great process and work. I'd always use a pencil so marks can be wiped off after bends are done. Having worked I north America for 6 years I did miss the proper benders we used in the UK. Took a while to get used to their hand/foot benders. I did like their fast fittings and thinner gauge steel conduit though. The likes of this conduit run could be done I under 30 minutes with the north American style of conduit and fittings.
Super video thanks. Really enjoyed it. Not sure proper electricians ware gloves though.. Trouble is these days I fined most metal conduit is crap especially the spacer bar saddle clips and brass bushes .
Brilliant video Gaz! I'm mostly into domestic work but would love to break into commercial and industrial installs. Can you show some vids on swa terminations?
Nice work Jake, although id have whipped that biscuit out of Gaz's hands when he waved it in your face :) Like the use of rivnuts , watch all the youtube sparks adopt it like they did ferrules and fitting them on solid conductors hahahaha .. no bundy jokes... poor old Nick gets a hammering
A good video but I have always been brought up where conduit boxes are not drilled / fixed back they are supported by saddles this then helps prevent water ingress
Try using a bending block like we did in the 60’s ,you could bend tighter angles easily,every one kept their own block jealousy guarded because once it was worn in it was perfect
How do you make? Or where do you buy a bending block? The amount of times I have had to buy elbows or sweeping bends because I couldn't get a tight enough bend.....
@@andyglass3882 we had to make our own blocks,usually out of a 3 foot piece of 3x3 hardwood with a 3/4 hole at one end and an inch hole at the other.The holes were carefully drilled from both sides and angled to aid the bending but they took a bit of working in until a smooth bend could be made.Some guys used to burn the hole through to harden the wood around the hole to make it last longer.There are or used to be tighter formers for bending machines that made really tight right angles.Bending blocks took a lot of practice but could achieve really impressive sets and bends
A few people have commented on here about the fact that you called rivnuts or nutserts, pop rivets. However, you must have known that there is a major difference between them and pop rivets yet you gave no explanation as to the difference and the fact that the tool is different from a pop rivet tool. Your videos are usually very informative but this must have left a lot of people who are familiar with pop rivets confused as to how you would use a screw with them.
Good Video… Love Gaz’s Banter 🤣 👍🏽 …. Great teacher 😉 But did anyone notice that the Unistrut at the back of the board was the wrong way round ? 🤣 The give away was the Zebedee springs were hanging out 👍🏽 Might be a reason for the strut to be reversed … But thats not how you mount a Zebedee 😉 I don’t miss threading 25 mil conduit 🤣👍🏽
You should have tried 2 inch conduit in the 60’s and with hand dies not ratchet,I was once made to thread a full length and cut it up into nipples for giving lip
@@anthonyschofield7807 Absolutely been there done that haha 🤣👍🏽 I did my apprenticeship in the early 80’s … Working with a contractor at well known car factory’s doing all the indoor and outdoor lighting ….. Miles and miles of 25mm galv conduit …. i was a bit lippy too and found myself threading full lengths of nipples 🤣👍🏽…. The bad old good days 👍🏽 …. Still got my pipe vice and bender and stocks and dies 👍🏽…. They should use them to punish young offenders haha 🤣
Hi when you threaded the conduit to make a extra long nipple to go through the wall surely a coupling could have been cut cut down to cover the extra thread therefore giving a more solid Finnish. The long nipple yes was sprayed with a protective coating but I feel a coupling would be of an extra advantage D Warner
Not entirely sure when the nomenclature changed, but you hear live, line, and phase (less commonly) thrown around by various people when referring to a line conductor. the thinking behind it is, as the neutral generally carries current in normal circuit operation, it is a "Live" conductor, that also carries shock potential in certain circumstances.
What's the socket attachment you use at the end to tighten that bush? (None of the cheap-jack brass bushes I get from wholesalers have a nice metric A/F dimension that a standard spanner fits!)
Gary, stop being just a flapjack to the staff! I'd rate that work an easy 9/10 jelly babies..... no, sorry let me "generic correction fluid" that out and upgrade it to a 10/10. Sterling work there Jake!
All that messing with levels and squares to get your bend position?why not use the ole add/subtract 50mm (best to double check your former) from the measurement to get were the pipe sits at the start of the former.Also get yerself some footprints,not only the best grips for conduit,but the handle doubles up as a reamer for cleaning up the burrs
Never seen the lead washer on the inside under male bush before only ever seen or put on face of the flange coupler if it needed a washer inside ide put a normal metal one
Good install bit didn't see a weatherproof seal at the wall or the back of the external box. In a heavy rain water could get in. Obviously I have presupposed the box is on the outside of the building.
@@efixx Yeah I can imagine. I suggested using pop rivets for joining trunking the other day. I mean pop rivets not riv nuts and that kind of opened a can of worms. Actually push in conduit might well be more water proof aswell if that was a part of the objective of the designer. What about using a countersink in a drill to deburr the inside edges of the conduit?
I once saw an electrician having to use a 4 way box,he knew he would need three runners so he thought he would do those first and ended up having to do a fourth at the end,you could undo all four and take the box out 😁
A few more instructional video's Jake and Gary will be good enough for you to let him have a go - keep an eye on him mind, or he'll be skiving off for a doughnut.
UK conduit, you should see how they do conduit in USA, it’s faster with pre connectors. I don’t understand why you guys use threaded conduit ends and boxes, it seems so hard to work with.
at first: thx for all the effort u put in this clip, but i doubt this way of an electrical installation is allowed anymore (at least in germany )- single wires in steelpipes?! wtf? this was meant to do 50 years ago. this is way too time consuming and too expensive compared to an installation with ether flexible plastic pipes or just NYM-J in those drywalls, eventhough h05-vk or h07-vk is more expensive than NYM-j etc. otherwise, they just do things different in the kingdom, they just dont give a f!?k about norms- not the first time for me to see an electrical installation, out of the kingdom, which i wish i would've never seen. i mean all of the existing wires u see, already installed, where just nailed to the wall. so whats the reason u choose to install single h05-vk/h07-vk wires inside steel pipes randomly instead of use a proper insulated cable nailing to the walls without steelpipes? i dont get it🤷♀ if i would do that i would loose my job immediately
This was painful to watch, come to the us and learn how to properly bend rigid conduit. Running threads are a code violation over here as well. The contraption you use to bend pipe is so much overkill, just use a hand bender and the proper take up. Any IBEW JW would be fired if he took that long to bend an offset and a 90 😂😂😂😂
This is absolute nonsense for regular households :D This "protection level" might be required inside a CNC machine or sandblaster. Not in my basement. And definitely not for anything below 63A in any building. I would fight with my dear life to not let these kind of regulations apply here. Wasting money on sham-safety. Aka "I buy Volvo because it is safe for my kids".
