like a really stiff copex kinda stuff.?
Hard work gone from metal conduit
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Lurchio I remember that push on stuff too, the couplers and boxes had longer spouts with a spring clip inside , don't know if it had a BS to it. This was early 1970s .
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Well its been around since Methusula was a lad TBH. I think for indoor use , with an earth wire , it did the job OK. This was a flush conduit installation , nothing wrong with it really . I think it was what was called " Light guage" too.
Unfortunately I go back to 3/4 conduit and wooden bending blocks .
Unfortunately I go back to 3/4 conduit and wooden bending blocks .
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Yep. bleedin 'orrible stuff!
A sparkie I know has an electric threader but I've never seen it , it only comes out under armed guard . My M8 reckons it is adapted onto a reversable drill that you hold at right angles to the tube .
Thinking back , it was a great day when we dumped the tub of tallow and went with pipe fitters style cutting paste in a tin .
Also a great day when the powers that be decided that 2" steel conduit was ridiculous and went with trunking instead . The firm I did my time with had a set of 2" stocks &dies 4 ft long , two apprentices to cut a thread.!!!
Thinking back , it was a great day when we dumped the tub of tallow and went with pipe fitters style cutting paste in a tin .
Also a great day when the powers that be decided that 2" steel conduit was ridiculous and went with trunking instead . The firm I did my time with had a set of 2" stocks &dies 4 ft long , two apprentices to cut a thread.!!!
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Oppo number 1 need a smack on the back of the head, where is the cutting paste/fluid.....as he does not use them his die is now as much use as a chocolate fire grate..i still prefer theading and bending....not a prob to do???
Trefolex, have a few tubs in the workshop for threading mechanical bits.
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Just watched this video!!! Seems were going back in time, we used to have something quite similar called ''Slip Conduit'' ...Funny that stuff was banned years ago, now only fit for Alarm wiring.
I've worked overseas for the greater part of my working life, and have experienced many different wiring systems and solutions. There are not many that equal , and very few that surpass our own G/conduit systems.
This so-called new system is very similar to what the Yanks use, and like i noticed on the above video, both are ill-fitting and wobbles about like a good-un. They have protruding coarse thread screws, on couplings and adaptors etc, rather than on the boxes. (there surface boxes look more like our knockout flush boxes) As i remember they call there system ''EMT'' conduit. The finished work looks, as you can imagine atrocious, just as this system will also look...
No major contractor worth his sort will use this retrograde system, as i doubt it's life span could in anyway match it's traditional thread an screw system. You can just imagine the the effects of years of expansion and contraction will have on those tiny grub screws, let alone corrosion effects.
All i can say is, that our BS standards are taking a nose dive granting this set up a BS standard, ....not unless it's legitimate areas of use is substantially restricted!!!!
I've worked overseas for the greater part of my working life, and have experienced many different wiring systems and solutions. There are not many that equal , and very few that surpass our own G/conduit systems.
This so-called new system is very similar to what the Yanks use, and like i noticed on the above video, both are ill-fitting and wobbles about like a good-un. They have protruding coarse thread screws, on couplings and adaptors etc, rather than on the boxes. (there surface boxes look more like our knockout flush boxes) As i remember they call there system ''EMT'' conduit. The finished work looks, as you can imagine atrocious, just as this system will also look...
No major contractor worth his sort will use this retrograde system, as i doubt it's life span could in anyway match it's traditional thread an screw system. You can just imagine the the effects of years of expansion and contraction will have on those tiny grub screws, let alone corrosion effects.
All i can say is, that our BS standards are taking a nose dive granting this set up a BS standard, ....not unless it's legitimate areas of use is substantially restricted!!!!
