PERSON stole my 10mm bonding

[DaveyD]

So over the weekend some little <S> pikey</S> tike snipped the 10mm bonding that was not in conduit from the garage. I am now 4M short and the rest is all done (although the circuits are not energised and this is for a new gas supply that's not yet fitted so it's safe). Its quite a long run - not too east to pull through again. (plus someone knocked my brand new leika laser level off the wall breaking the clamp, so I'm writing today off) Anyone crimp bonding? I could do inside conduit. Regards, Dave

 

[tigerpaul]

Crimping is not against the regs...

 

[telectrix]

nowt wrong with a through crimp with a bit of heat shrink

 

[Spudnik]

Yep, crimp is the "way to go".

See what i did there??

No?

Ok.:lipsrsealed2:

 

[DaveyD]

Crimping is not against the regs...

Yep, crimp is the "way to go".

See what i did there??

No?

Ok.:lipsrsealed2:

Nope, I clicked thanks 'cause you're the boss but ... no, no I did not.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

see this in quite a few of the renteds we service.......where the tennents have left in a hurry and had "open house" on the copper plumbing, earthing and bonding etc......

 

[trev]

Slightly off topic but... I worked with a ploish spark for a while on a housing project, he was always on kitchens because he loved doing them. The spec called for earths on the boxes (a habit I got into as an apprentice and still do to this day). One day the electrical forum was doing a random check, as he did regularly, and opened a socket in the kitchen he had completed the previous day...no earth on the box. So he opened another which was the same and so on around the whole kitchen.
When he pulled said Polish spark in front of us he said someone must have opened the accessories and removed them, what a nutter he was

 

[Spudnik]

Nope, I clicked thanks 'cause you're the boss but ... no, no I did not.

Way to go = wago?

 

[Rockingit]

Way to go = wago?

I think the way to go might be HelaCons instead, given that they're MADE IN BRITAIN!!

 

[jaresquire]

.....Tumbleweed....

 

[High Tower]

If I remember right, wagos and helacons only do up to 4mm

 

[Rockingit]

I'm pretty sure you're right, but even if they did, I think I'd still use a nice big compression crimp. Right tool for the job, and all that.

 

[High Tower]

If wago etc did a connector that big I'd use it in a heartbeat!!, no matter what the reliability of connection given by these things is just better!

 

[Rockingit]

I'm not sprawling for a scrap, and I use Helacons all the time - just curious - so you would really favour a manufactured bit of plastic/spring/clamp contraption rather than a big piece of steel/copper that you know for sure has made a solid connection and been squashed at x Nm2 by a big tool and some hairy biceps?

 

[High Tower]

Oh god mate I wasnt trying for a row!!, you have got a perfectly good point and I'm far from saying your wrong.

I still crimp from time to time and your analogy is very true!. Why do I prefer wagos etc to crimps??, 1 simple reason....yes the crimp is a mechanical connection but I have had a 0% failure rate with push connectors, that's the only problem with crimps is the failure rate.