Cable gland? 3 phase 50mm meter tails

[switch10]

Hi guys , wonder if you can help , I am completing an electrical installation shortly and meter installer is requesting all 3 phase meter tails to enter galv box trunking through 1 single gland .

However I have 3 phase board with 50mm meter tails and can’t seem to find a gland/ or brass gland / grommet big enough for 3 phases and neutral to go through .

Any help very much appreciated

 

[steptoe]

Hi guys , wonder if you can help , I am completing an electrical installation shortly and meter installer is requesting all 3 phase meter tails to enter galv box trunking through 1 single gland .

However I have 3 phase board with 50mm meter tails and can’t seem to find a gland/ or brass gland / grommet big enough for 3 phases and neutral to go through .

Any help very much appreciated

Are you suggesting you put them through separate glands,?

 

[Fleeting]

You just need a large enough brass male bush, lock ring and I normally top it off with a female bush.

 

[Andy™]

cut a large hole and fit something non ferrous and then individual glands into that. or fit multiple glands with a slot between them

 

[kerching]

Tri Rated cable and a 50mm bush, locknut, female bush?

 

[tinman1973]

Something like this
https://www.cef.co.uk/catalogue/pro...u17-ebxK6n1wxpID_MgaAncTEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

 

[switch10]

Are you suggesting you put them through separate glands,?

No I’m not suggesting anything of the kind

 

[switch10]

Thanks everyone for the replies

 

[revjames]

Otherwise a sheet of paxolin/ tufnol with correct sized holes to suit the cables individually. On larger ones I have seen it cut longitudinally down the middle of the holes and fitted in 2 halves to make it easier.

 

[switch10]

Would anyone know where I can purchase a gland big enough? This needs to be for all 3 phases and neutral? Normally deal with 25mm tails . However the meter company are requesting 50mm meter tails and I can’t find a gland big enough for all them to go through together .

 

[Sharpend]

Go to any wholesaler?

 

[switch10]

Go to any wholesaler?

I have in Gloucester where I’m based and all say they don’t do any to take 50mm meter tails together hence why asking here again

 

[Sharpend]

Really! Wholesaler will usually get in what you need if you ask them.

 

[Fleeting]

Are you sure they want them glanded and not just bushed you can however get 70mm glands.

 

[Andy™]

63mm glands are reasonably easy enough to get hold of, not sure if youd get 50mm tails through it though. larger may exist, but ive not seen or needed any

 

[switch10]

Are you sure they want them glanded and not just bushed you can however get 70mm glands.

As long as can be through a single entry point going into galvanised box trunking they didn’t specify just single entry - which I normally do with 25mm tails but this is a larger supply so 50mm tails . Will try a 70 but don’t think all cables will fit through together still

 

[switch10]

Really! Wholesaler will usually get in what you need if you ask them.

Yes this is what I’m saying they are saying they can’t get them , which is why I’m asking as someone surely used a supplier before on here that I could ask for

 

[Fleeting]

Does it really need a gland and not just a bush.

 

[Sharpend]

I would suggest you require a bush kit and not a gland, alternatively the other suggestions will suffice. Meter monkey is probably thinking that you don’t know about harmonics, mind I’m not sure they do either? Hence the suggestion of a single gland, being their reference to a single hole for all cables. Naturally this is what we would do anyway and how we achieve it is down to us not meter monkey.

 

[kerching]

I watched a bloke on Youtoob yesterday putting a 4 x 240 armoured through a stuffing gland that can't have been much bigger than 63mm