How do you guys do angles in trunking

[Gringoking88]

Hi all,

Was just looking for some best practices around using plastic mini trunking.

How do you guys join trunking on corners of walls that are not right angles so you can't use the normal pre made bends. I mean I've got a vertical wall and that has got a bend of about 30 degrees in in.

Every time I cut the bloody stuff I end up with a slight gap in the trunking which does not look great tbh. I was thinking of just using caulk or silicone filler but am seeing if there any tricks of the trade?

Many thanks,

M

 

[ipf]

You a chef in a Chinese takeaway?

It's a ship's galley.....just not finished the porthole yet.

 

[The Ghost]

You a chef in a Chinese takeaway?

Only when I'm not doing trunking for the take away.

 

[The Ghost]

Thats very eco of you

They are the originals. It's for me portfolio.

 

[Squid]

Only when I'm not doing trunking for the take away.

Is that the Special Number 77.5 Pork Option?

 

[The Ghost]

77.5 is the squid and flied lice.

 

[The Ghost]

I had someone helping doing the trunking and I said would you like to use my lucky side cutters or have the misfortune of receiving a steel toe cap in the groin for fecking about.

 

[Wilko]

You a chef in a Chinese takeaway?

He gets free takeaway for fixing the lectric

 

[telectrix]

77.5 is the squid and flied lice.

it's fried rice, you Plick.

 

[Squid]

I think this guy could teach you lot about trunking,

 

[telectrix]

i get a piece of scrap (cut off) trunking lid. cut a nick in the sides, bend to the angle of the wall/ceiling/whatever, then transfer to whatever i need to cut.

 

[ipf]

I think this guy could teach you lot about trunking,


View attachment 41297

Did he use coloured keys on the piano?....amazing!

 

[elsparko]

i use bits of cardboard, same as making templates for lining a van lol

 

[telectrix]

Did he use coloured keys on the piano?....amazing!

he has 2 sets of braille on the keys. in tune... out of tune. unfortunately he's not got the hang of braille.

 

[Squid]

Why waste time with trunking just use cable clips along the top of the skirting board......

 

[KEV 1 N]

Angle gauge, steel rule, saw, file, knife. Apply tools to trunking in the manner prescribed by the art and craft, and a perfect joint results. There's no magic shortcut - electrical installation work is a craft and it requires skill and practice. A joiner can make joints in wood of arbitrary angles that fit together exactly and look smart; an electrician should be able to do the same with electrical materials. Unfotunately, the very kind of work that uses PVC mini trunking is not the kind to draw the attention of the most skilled craftsmen, so one doesn't see precision work in mini around the place.

Wind back the clock 100 years and you would see electricians making complex joints in wooden casing with flyovers, double mitres etc. That wasn't something you could learn from a book, and was nigh impossible for the DIYer. When I look back at my first few years' steel trunking work it's got some rough edges (not literally!). It has taken 20 years to get good at it and now I don't do much on the tools and avoid first fix like the plague, I'm losing it again for want of practice.

If it's any consolation, when my mentor asked me to tube up an area in 20mm BE steel con while he was in hospital, with funny angles in roof trusses, he made sure there was just enough tube. I made so many misbends that I secretly bought another bundle of conduit and cut up and took away most of the errors!

An old guy once told me that the first electricians were joiners

 

[freddo]

This thread reminds me of the idiots that can't use a bending spring on pvc conduit and instead insert short lengths of flexible conduit when there is a bend.

 

[ruston]

Why waste time with trunking just use cable clips along the top of the skirting board......

Or as one I found in the past - tucked under the gap in the skirting board between the carpet gripper

 

[Squid]

Or as one I found in the past - tucked under the gap in the skirting board between the carpet gripper

There's an art to that, you just need to be able to hold the bolster at the right angle.

 

[rapparee]

Or as one I found in the past - tucked under the gap in the skirting board between the carpet gripper

The house I grew up in had coax under all of the carpet.

 

[ruston]

The house I grew up in had coax under all of the carpet.

And a good majority were accompanied by alarm cables .

 

[rapparee]

And a good majority were accompanied by alarm cables .

The funny thing is, whenever I qualified my parents decided to put down wooden floors and tiles

So I got the job of tracking and sinking all of the cables.

 

[Squid]

The house I grew up in had coax under all of the carpet.

Carpet, thats a luxury we had cold hard lino.............

 

[Deleted member 26818]

I use some paper to make up a template.
Cut the paper to the shape of the angle, then draw a line through the centre of the angle.

 

[Gavin John Hyde]

If the OP is still following this post, b and q have a good clearance sale on at the moment and they have a good saw - it might be poor for wood, but will do trunking and conduit with ease and be good for getting nice angles, its only a tenner as well with free click and collect

 

[The Ghost]

I must say the lack of professionalism in approaching one of the premium wiring methods involving mini trunking has left me aghast at how standards have fallen. I always take my laser cutter on such jobs to ensure that while no-one gives a flying, I can walk away with my head held high.
Mantech Machinery - Desktop Laser Engraver and Laser Cutter - http://www.mantechmachinery.co.uk/laser-cutting-machines/desktop-laser-engraver-and-laser-cutter

 

[Squid]

I must say the lack of professionalism in approaching one of the premium wiring methods involving mini trunking has left me aghast at how standards have fallen. I always take my laser cutter on such jobs to ensure that while no-one gives a flying, I can walk away with my head held high.
Mantech Machinery - Desktop Laser Engraver and Laser Cutter - http://www.mantechmachinery.co.uk/laser-cutting-machines/desktop-laser-engraver-and-laser-cutter

Cheap skate, I use a 3D modelling laser to make an image of the room, I then transfer it to my CNC program and create a detailed form, I then use my CNC Plasma cutter to cut the trunking,

Swifty CNC - https://swiftycnc.co.uk/shop/packages/package-2?gclid=CjwKCAjwypjVBRANEiwAJAxlImt2tXkSEkpubYsjQqg1ya6gGkRNmCcG3XX9o2FAFXOnXSDzMMXG7xoC_oQQAvD_BwE

if there is still a gap I just use mastic and move the furniture around to hide the detailed workmanship.

 

[Deleted member 72666]

Another lovely bit of trunking, jobs a goodun.View attachment 41292

No special tools required, just use your teeth!

 

[Squid]

No special tools required, just use your teeth!

For the Northerners thats fairly easy..........