Useful Piece Of Kit .

[Evans Electric]

We made this up years ago after seeing s Sparky with a similar thing , mostly wood.    Really good when working alone .   Just 20mm conduit and a bit of welding . 

Noticed at the wholesalers they have a frame on the floor with two rollers , just wheel a drum of SWA onto it and wind cable off it onto a spool .  Drum revolves a treat .

 

[kerching]

I am always making stuff similar to this

i posted some pics of my cable rollers a while ago....imwill see if i can refind them!

on site, in an emergency( someone forgot the cable roller)

 take 2 right angle or T or 4 way galv or BE boxes

4 bits of conduit threaded at one end

screw conduit into  2 boxes at 90 degrees to each other

drill hole in back of boxes slightly bigger than conduit diameter

use the box/ tube concoction previously made as the legs and ends

thread  bar through cable drums and then through the leg ends

Using oversized hole allows the legs to splay out and thus not tip over

Found them

 

[Andy™]

here's mine





made from a few bits of wood and 2 rollers. there is another slot to move rollers for different size reels

and my cable stand. made form an old road sign

 

[Evans Electric]

That one looks OK Andy , nice and easy to change the cable reel , just lift the spindle up. 

 

[Steve3948]

Been trying to get a couple of old rollers for ages, I thought 50 X 750mm what are yours above Andy and Kerching.

 

[Andy™]

not sure, just what i had lying around. i would guess approx 40-45 dia and 5-600 long

 

[kerching]

About 50 x 600 for both of them

i can measure in the morning if you want?

 

[thewiz]

i want / need on of those rollers 

 

[kerching]

Well you can buy them at most wholesalers....or do like we did.......forage some bits and cobble one together

just fuffing

 

[sprocketflup]

I bought one off ebay fairly recently