Connecting Cookers

[mark80]

Hi, got a cooker to connect up tomorrow and I got thinking about what a **** it was probably going to be connecting it up. As with everything we fit now (lights etc) they all come with rediculous connections and with some, barely any room to connect properly. Cookers are no exception, as most I come across now are allen bolt type heads with connections that dont want to take a 6mm cable.

What im basically wondering is how many of you use a crimp or forked crimp when connecting cookers? Was thinking of doing this tomorrow as ive never thought about using them before and thought it should make life easier and give a good connection! Just wanted to know the general concensus of using crimps for this purpose and whether people use them all the time?

 

[telectrix]

all depends on how crappy the terminals are. if i can get a good connection just on the cable, then i will. if not, plan B. whatever works.

 

[ayjay]

oh such stress and panic"i cant connect a cooker"
how will you get on in life as a sparky
ffsakake

 

[GLENNSPARK]

oh such stress and panic"i cant connect a cooker"
how will you get on in life as a sparky
ffsakake

enlighten us please ayjay.....

 

[ayjay]

use a neon screwdriver slope it toward the live then post a question as to why the end melted

 

[ayjay]

well glenn maybye the balls in your court
how would you connect a cooker?

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Hi, got a cooker to connect up tomorrow and I got thinking about what a **** it was probably going to be connecting it up. As with everything we fit now (lights etc) they all come with rediculous connections and with some, barely any room to connect properly. Cookers are no exception, as most I come across now are allen bolt type heads with connections that dont want to take a 6mm cable.

What im basically wondering is how many of you use a crimp or forked crimp when connecting cookers? Was thinking of doing this tomorrow as ive never thought about using them before and thought it should make life easier and give a good connection! Just wanted to know the general concensus of using crimps for this purpose and whether people use them all the time?

what youl find a lot of the time with these cooker connection screws......is they are designed with stops in them to prevent the cable from traveling too far.....they will grip 6.0mm cable quite readily....

 

[telectrix]

well glenn maybye the balls in your court
how would you connect a cooker?

personally i'd connect it to the gas pipe.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

you dont need to crimp em.....also, dont forget that...as 4.0 and 6.0 cables are stranded.....to manipulate the cable a bit after you have nipped it up....it`l want to nip up some more....

 

[telectrix]

there's another place i'd love to connect a gas pipe to at this moment.

 

[baldelectrician]

Have you noticed a lot of cooker instructions request 4mm HO5 / HO7 flex? Not twin and earth...

Discuss

 

[DPG]

oh such stress and panic"i cant connect a cooker"
how will you get on in life as a sparky
ffsakake

Yet more pointless, unhelpful comments. Well done. This forum is getting worse. Daz

 

[Stroppy]

Closed loop crimp every time for me - neater, easier, more secure, and you don't have to wiggle them to make the strands settle and tighten again, which as Glennspark points out you should do otherwise.

 

[MDJ]

I always use yellow lugs if I cannot get the cables into the terminals, It is not rocket science is it

 

[Adam W]

Have you noticed a lot of cooker instructions request 4mm HO5 / HO7 flex? Not twin and earth...

Discuss

I don't think I've ever seen a cooker connected in anything other than T&E. It would make sense to wire the cooker in H07, but people just don't do it.
Maybe it would help if the cooker came prewired with a bit of H07 already on it to connect to the CCU, like how in the 90s appliances started being sold with plugs already on them.

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Yet more pointless, unhelpful comments. Well done. This forum is getting worse. Daz

How does that help?

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Closed loop crimp every time for me - neater, easier, more secure, and you don't have to wiggle them to make the strands settle and tighten again, which as Glennspark points out you should do otherwise.

and you do that with any stranded cable.....including tails.....