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,


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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