Home made Cable roller

[chrishaworth]

It is an immutable law of the universe that the day after you have binned something that has been hanging around in your store for 25 years, you will need it and a substitute will cost hundreds of pounds. It's like Schrodinger's cat, you only collapse the quantum function when you throw something away.

Cheers, Chris

 

[M107]

The sort of tidy store

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The main reason for the tidy up, I had to get the scrap cable inside because I caught local scrotes down the drive eyeballing the scrap.

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[Evans Electric]

It is an immutable law of the universe that the day after you have binned something that has been hanging around in your store for 25 years, you will need it and a substitute will cost hundreds of pounds. It's like Schrodinger's cat, you only collapse the quantum function when you throw something away.Cheers, Chris

That ruddy Schrodinger's cat keeps having a quantum function in our garden.

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The main reason for the tidy up, I had to get the scrap cable inside because I caught local scrotes down the drive eyeballing the scrap.

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Nearly as untidy as mine that is 107.

 

[revjames]

do you remember those stupid 'boxreels' not sure if they still do them but I never liked it always ended up snagging and you were trying to pull a box through a small hole in the ceiling!

 

[Robin Spark]

do you remember those stupid 'boxreels' not sure if they still do them but I never liked it always ended up snagging and you were trying to pull a box through a small hole in the ceiling!

That sounds like those silly cardboard boxes for prysmian cable which disentegrate on first use!

 

[kerching]

I had a tidy up in my store & decided I needed to chuck some stuff away...it was hard but the old salvaged "it may come in handy one day" clutter got binned....even the old C50 mcb's & 30mA rcbo's

Sold my C50s on Ebay! Bloke on there buys them by the shed load and ships them out to Africa or somewhere.......I was happy with a tenner a piece:coat

 

[M107]

Sold my C50s on Ebay! Bloke on there buys them by the shed load and ships them out to Africa or somewhere.......I was happy with a tenner a piece:coat

I am now going out to the store & rummaging through the bin bags for said C50's

 

[Andy™]

im sure ive got loads of C50's aswell

 

[Evans Electric]

Me too !! Tenner each eh!

 

[kerching]

Supply and demand....watch C50 prices drop as soon as these hit the market,

I bought a serious amount of Merlin Gerin RCBOs a couple of years ago fiver a piece, look at 'em now:innocent

 

[wozz]

im a sucker for a 'good deal' had 1500 T5 tubes in my front room for 6 months at one point while trying to sell them, got a thousand or so fuses of various shapes and sizes in storage waiting to be counted and sorted, one day i will learn to say no.

 

[Andy™]

1500 tubes?! what made you buy that many?!

 

[Theorysparky]

no they are 5ft tubes (1500mm)

not 1500 tubes

he only has 2 of them

:C :innocent

 

[wozz]

they were too cheap to let go I couldnt say no! should have sorted out storage first though.

 

[Evans Electric]

Wozz, you 've had those tubes that long they're the fatties with the bayonet cap ends.

I told you to get shut of them in 1963 , they're about as useful as that 50 boxes of 3/4 imperial conduit fittings .

 

[Sidewinder]

I may be interested in the imperial conduit fittings ]

 

[Evans Electric]

In that case , Sidey ,can I interest you in 20 Rawlplug Tools C/W jumper bits .

1000 yards ....... 7/.029 VIR in Red and Black .

30 ,1/2 drums of 1/.044 rubber insul cable.

4 boxes of 15A x round pin uswitched sockets.

100 kilos of Tallow

24..... Wylex wooden backed 4way rewirable fuseboards .

 

[kerching]

Anyway.....back to the cable rollers, if I may be so bold:innocent

Here is one I made earlier...just bits from an old conveyor system that I ripped out about 20 years ago. I made 6 of them, took about 30 minutes total, and if you turn them upside down you can use them as skids. Used 2 recently to move a 1200A Merlin Gerin panel board [not the lightest of things!] The rollers can be moved along the frame to cope with different drum sizes

This is a smaller one for FP200 and smaller wooden drums. Made out of 2 plastic rollers and some 3 x 2 scrap...5 minutes with a drill, saw and nailgun....simples

 

[Evans Electric]

BT guys use that type of roller , but you need wooden or plastic drums.

 

[johnosman]

Made a cable jack out of conduit and conduit boxes, great for small cable drums and easy to dimantle and put in the back of the van