Regulation for using a cable reel?

[Paisley]

Been working at a cinema refurbishment but our firm are not doing the data cables or the speakers. It got to the end of the day and the people who are doing that side of things were pulling what looked like t+e through the studwork on the back wall of one of the screens. The roll was not on a reel, was just lying flat on the floor and as you can imagine there was a twist every foot of the run (which goes along the back wall then down the left and right walls to the speakers). Even though it is just speaker wire could it still create a build up of heat from the eddy currents? I thought I saw in the OSG a regulation about using a cable reel to avoid twists when pulling cables but have looked through it and found nothing. Looked through a few parts of the regs book too and couldn't find anything there either. I expect the builders will start to board over it tomorrow so thought I'd post a query up on here as I know this can be a very informative forum. Cheers guys

 

[Pete999]

I was doing a job a few weeks ago, I had a second man sent with me to do some of the humping and dumping. He's one of our FLM engineers, first line maint. I good analogy I like to use is half of them can't tie their own shoe laces, the other half don't want to.

We carried over three 50m reels of 25mm singles to the cabin we we're working in and chucked them on the cable jack I had. I told him to tape the ends together so we could feed them into the overhead basket we were working on and I disappeared into the cabin and go up the steps ready to start pulling the cables in.

He appeared at the door and passed me the first few meters for me to make a start, I told him to try and keep the cables from twisting together to make dressing in easier.

He was struggling a bit to feed them in so after a couple of minutes I got down and stepped outside. He'd taken the reels off the cable jack and rolled them out in the compound to make life easier...

I started calling him Hovis after that, Thick cut...

Must remember that one

 

[Squid]

Like a Michael Hunt?

 

[KEV 1 N]

Thought it was Warrick Hunt??

 

[KEV 1 N]

Still got me old set made up of 25mm Galv! Folds up nicely too! Must be atleast 15 years old.

Like these?

 

[Dave OCD]

This is ours, made by my son.

 

[KEV 1 N]

Canny! Good idea with the lock nuts on the 'bar', although no galv spray on the runner!

 

[Des 56]

If there is ignorance around about reeling cable off a drum,what chance these same folk coiling a cable in the figure of eight

 

[telectrix]

If there is ignorance around about reeling cable off a drum,what chance these same folk coiling a cable in the figure of eight

you only need to do that for RFC cables, so you can measure your R1+R2. then you uncoil it and fit it straight.

 

[EbolaSideRoom]

Broom handle, two chairs and a doorway.

Is exactly what I was thinking, and what I did before I bought one of those pesky A frame spoolers most merchants seem to have. Not that they're ideal in every situation. Sometimes the kick method works perfectly adequately.

That said, a cable mate and a scaffold pole works wonders too.

 

[Pete999]

Is exactly what I was thinking, and what I did before I bought one of those pesky A frame spoolers most merchants seem to have. Not that they're ideal in every situation. Sometimes the kick method works perfectly adequately.

That said, a cable mate and a scaffold pole works wonders too.

Only it the cable drum has a big enough center hole. Crikey how much longer is this thread going on? it's only about taking cable off of a reel properly, maybe they should start teaching the basics at these wonder spark establishments.

 

[GlenTavener]

How did we do it so neatly all those years ago,with no reel cable toys,it’s a doddle le,personally it’s great to have 2 or 3 drums on the go,but hey,it’s fine without the cable reeler,never had any trouble,but I have seen others get in a right state
Regulation your having a laugh ha ha ha

The old guys when I started out, 1962, used to boast how they installed 2 lights and a plug for £20,
pre-nationalization, the really good ones could apparently get the lead Twin, lead sheath was the earth, up a wall clipped without disturbing the french chalk used to stop it sticking together. As an apprentice once only was I involved installing a cooker circuit in lead, there was an earth wire in that one. The good old SEB had stock they wanted used. Interesting though how genuine tradespeople take a real pride in their skills relevant to the time they worked in. I see exactly the same today across all ages a desire to do the best possible, not always appreciated by customers, some of whom have a tendency to be sniffy about tradespeople, the people we most of us want to impress though are people who are on here and do the same work or have done. We know that they understand why something is good and they are usually happy to say so.