Any conlock converts on here?

[westward10]

Is it actually suitable for external use?

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Is it actually suitable for external use?

Apparently yes when used with sealant.
Probably has to be special sealant only available from conlock.

 

[Nigel]

Is it actually suitable for external use?

Surely not if you have to mastic it.

That is proper pony if you ask me.

 

[westward10]

Not sure it is for external use as I see no type of sealer on their website.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Not sure it is for external use as I see no type of sealer on their website.

Recommends in FAQs, using CT1 mastic in high rainfall areas.
http://www.demoncato.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Conlok-FAQs.pdf

 

[westward10]

So do you just use standard conduit but use the Conlock fittings?

 

[Deleted member 26818]

So do you just use standard conduit but use the Conlock fittings?

That’s what they were doing at THFC.
Not sure if the cut off the threaded ends or just pushed them into the fittings?
The thickness of the walls of conlock couplers and adapters is about the same as that of the boxes. Quite chunky compared to threaded couplers.

 

[Nigel]

That’s what they were doing at THFC.
Not sure if the cut off the threaded ends or just pushed them into the fittings?
The thickness of the walls of conlock couplers and adapters is about the same as that of the boxes. Quite chunky compared to threaded couplers.

I bet that was never in the specification. Probably brought in as a labour saving excercise half-way throw due to the over run.

That and can then get a load of monkeys in with allen keys to wack conduit up.

Liberty.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

I started there on the second of January this year.
They were using then and had been using it the year before.
From what I could tell, Imtech had been using it from the start.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

I can understand the attraction of the speed and ease of installation, and having built many structures with Kee Klamp tube I can believe that Conlock will do the job up to a point. But no matter how well it does or doesn't work, it feels like a bodge because for nearly a century, pin-grip, lug-grip and other types of slip conduit fittings were considered unreliable for maintaining continuity and could not be used as a CPC. For cheap slip jobs there was also 'close joint' tube, i.e. unwelded, that obviously couldn't be threaded and didn't exclude moisture and air from the cables. Only domestic and budget commercial work ever specced slip conduit and many contracts specifically prohibited it, so any pin grip system would definitely seem like a corner-cutting exercise.

 

[Toneyz]

Are the grub screws satisfactory to continue the earth?

I think the advert I saw said it did.

 

[mossep]

Seem like you could only use it for exposed installations then, surely all of the screw joints would have to be readily accessible to ensure earth continuity.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Seem like you could only use it for exposed installations then, surely all of the screw joints would have to be readily accessible to ensure earth continuity.

The company are advertising that it’s been used on some fairly major sites.
I doubt that periodic checking of the tightness of the grub screws has been factored in to any costings.
I also know that on one site, that many of the grub screws are or will be inaccessible.

 

[mossep]

The company are advertising that it’s been used on some fairly major sites.
I doubt that periodic checking of the tightness of the grub screws has been factored in to any costings.
I also know that on one site, that many of the grub screws are or will be inaccessible.

I would imagine there are a lot lying on the floor too

 

[Andy78]

Out of interest what size are the screws that hold this lot together ? Are they pointed ends ? Are they treated with threadloc or similar ?