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[Paul.M]

Paul there are various cleats you can use on ladder racking to secure the cable.
Here is a pdf of all the products you can use, there is also loads of interesting tables regarding derating, spacing etc, it is 73 pages but well worth a read for anyone working with ladder / tray.
well worth saving for the future.

Great PDF from what I've flicked through on a Friday night lol.

Get it posted up in the TS pdf sticky Glenn. http://www.electriciansforums.co.uk/electrical-course-trainees-only/65754-useful-pdfs-trainees.html

 

[GMES]

Great PDF from what I've flicked through on a Friday night lol.

Get it posted up in the TS pdf sticky Glenn. http://www.electriciansforums.co.uk/electrical-course-trainees-only/65754-useful-pdfs-trainees.html

Just done it mate.

 

[Silly Sausage]

Something like this


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZiTmk7cDrM

That's it.
Have a look at the vids of unsecured cables!

 

[Bobster]

Looks like the trainees and GMES has beaten me to it!

Good cable ties are suitable for around 190nm worth of force. The further away the center of each core is the more magnetic force there is under fault conditions.

Cleating is the only real way for large single core cables, the amount of even supposed 'good' engineers that fail to spec suitable containment is a joke. Maybe it's a cost thing. I've seen the aftermath, thankfully nobody hurt just a day sorting the problem out. The site both I and Tony worked at (different times) there was a fatality whilst Tony was there, the fault current threw the cables and lifted a 1/4" checkerplate sheet, cut an electricians mate in half.

 

[GMES]

Come on Guys, where are all the trainees hiding, I thought there would have been loads of installs posted up already.
Remember guys you don't have to show us a mega installation just something you recently did, so don't be shy.

 

[amckay]

I had been working on a social housing tower block refurb in Liverpool. I was on the team doing the communal areas from ground floor to the 10th and even tho I messed up a couple of times on some angles, I think I did OK considering I hadn't worked with tray since my 2330 4years ago!

 

[amckay]

And then there's domestic security lighting installation I did a few weeks ago.

 

[Silly Sausage]

amckay, I hope you had someone footing them ladders?!

Regards
Mancunian H&S Nazis


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[amckay]

Haha sadly not! And what is this health and safety I hear so much about? Lol

 

[Guest77]

Haha sadly not! And what is this health and safety I hear so much about? Lol

Spend a month working with me and you would soon know.

 

[telectrix]

amckay, I hope you had someone footing them ladders?!

Regards
Mancunian H&S Nazis




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ladder is on grass. no way it's going to slip when the ends are bedded in an inch.

 

[kevio123]

Pre-apprentice here.. this was some of the college work we did before christmas.. pretty proud of it due to it being my first attempt of conduit and trunking.. only had 1 shot at it as they were trying to save on waste materials.. The entire thing is made from 1 1.5m 50x50 trunking with cover and 1.6m (roughly) of conduit. Hardest part for me was forming the 45 bend on the trunking.
Once it was complete, we did the 3 dead testing procedures: continuity, insulation resistance and polarity. Havent started live testing as of yet.

Didn't do a practical class in secondary school so i don't think my metal work is very good, was interesting to learn though and i'm pretty sure the more you do these things the easier it becomes

 

[Sintra]

Good job mate. Like to see people getting taught how to fabricate trunking.

 

[pennychew]

I think you're metalwork is spot on, I'd be well pleased with that

 

[Poult12]

Counts me out. Enjoy peeps