The problem isn’t working the long unknown hours, the problem is finding a partner that shares one’s passion for working them.

11:00 - this is why people prefer KZfaq to polished TV. We see the human side, you acknowledge that we all have bad days and that’s so much more relatable than a perfectly honed performance. Hope next week is a better week.

Great work Cory! I found industrial electrical systems to be very diversified. Yes, please do film your work on other industrial plants.👍

AVE has already covered the one click back myth with the drill, since watching his videos my drill bits have stopped falling out 😂

Nick Bundy would love that draw setup👍🏽 Awesome job as always. 👌🏽

I'm retired now, but worked for leckie board for many years, last few as a fault technician attending LV faults. Lots of substation work, cahnging blown fuses etc. With regard to the phase sync to the generator, when on a training course for connecting 250 and 500 kva trailer mounted generators to a sub station, the instructor told us to watch the ring of LEDs on the generator as they would turn one way then the other, and when in sync the circuit breaker woul close and connect up. One of the lads was watching it very closely, and uttered the words "it's read to close", when the generator and trailer jumed a foot in the air! It turned out the instructor had caught his foot in the sync lead, which was supposed to be connected to the red phase, and carelesly reconnected it to the blue, so it ws out of phase!

😂 Cory: " invite your nan along" 65 year old non-electrician woman watching here, looks forward to the mechanical bit too just because ...well it's all so interesting and I never had the opportunity to do anything like it😂 V20 engine, sounds quite large to me 🤪 What a great coup this job is Cory, makes for good content too until the ridiculous problems with faulty parts. Sods law it happens late at night when it's impossible to get replacements at least I presume it is...or maybe there is somewhere that is available to help on time critical jobs? Great fun, see you next time, just call me Granny 😅😂👍👏

Drilling and tapping sheet metal is OK for thicker sheet but consider looking at "Nut-Serts" or "Riv-Nuts" as an alternate. They will provide sufficient thread to bite and secure. Remember, a bolt/screw should have 2.5 threads at least fully engaded into the opposite thread.

More of this sort of stuff please Cory; this is so cool!

Being able to solve unexpected problems independently in real-time is a highly desired skill in any industry. For some reason it's hard to teach and learn; some people just have it in them and others don't.

One of my favourite videos so far, good to see Jamie in his element as well 👏🏼

I think our meeting with 400A busbar in ØY25 was more scary then this +2000A intake . 😅 God jobb Cory 👍

Absolutely loved this one with Jamie, the dream team pairing!!!!

The problem I'm finding with working on the UK's electricity networks is a serious shortage of men and a lack of new people coming into the industry. We seem to be playing catch up just keep what we have going, especially when we get storm damage and are out all night getting damaged parts of the network energized again. This then has a knock on effect when it comes to planned outages. Great video bud, thanks.

got it easy with these auto synchroscopes , used to love doing them manually when i was on ships, even got a home brew one made out of incandescent lamps for pairing up small gensets// give it a go some time .. good content.. much more interesting than a board change or a car charger 🤣

Top stuff lad 👍 I fully hate auxiliary cables on primary terminations. At least they have a separate bolt. Seen 6mm control stuff on massive 16mm krimps on the same bolt as the twin 185mm 😂😂

Cory - use nut rivets and it'll secure it better. I use loads on HV panels

Lovely job and great to see Jamie.

Best you tube sparking video I’ve seen in ages & you managed to keep Jamie from swearing. More like this please.

Really enjoyable video Cory, thank you. To be able to see what happens at the other end when we turn the kettle on is quite a rarity. Definitely more please.

Interesting stuff Cory.More please.

Great content Cory , interesting to learn more, engineering Electrics stuff. like the van set up with the Milwaukee Pack out boxes & Sliding Draw , Great Tip ⚡️👊

Great video, shows we don’t all work 8-5. Love it when you get to test yourself

This took me back to the late 1980s. Used to service the power-factor correction and oil filled 11kv breakers in various substations.

I remember commissioning a new water turbine inside a large dam which ran a generator to feed into the grid. It shuddered to a halt and when it was stripped down the culprit was found to be a large eel wrapped around the impeller.

Better that fuse mounting plastic broke now rather than being just 'on the edge' and breaking later, when unattended , through vibration.

Cool episode. I thing the general plan is to replace peaker plants with big fat cabinets full of Lithium batteries that top off from the grid at quiet times, and then dump pack as demand goes up. Physically bigger, but less mechanical maintenance needed. There's going to be one big wheel left in a hundred years clocking the grid.

This is interesting for me. One of my clients makes turbochargers for heavy industry - shipping, construction and power industry, including backup generators etc. Interesting to see behind the scenes from a different POV. Thanks!

I loved this video. It is exactly what I do, industrial but in network distribution that I never had the chance to touch (and prefer to leave to the more competent than me for a long margin). Regarding the sheet metal work, what you've done works but normally I use some threaded nut rivets. Although 2mm thick sheet threads is enough for catching a screw I'm always afraid that by any external conditions or brute force of the next one to touch that will rip them from the sheet. But hey it works and it is enough.

Tip for commissioning, if possible back feed up to the generator with the wires disconnected at the generator, will prove all the wiring is phased out correctly.

Great Vid as always. A little tip to try in the future, place the tap in the drill and power tap the hole.

Great video Cory, looking forward to more of these

Great video, start to finish. Love this channel ❤. Always something new

Those high power tails should be bonded to earth when you are working on them.

Great content Cory, I really enjoyed it, thanks for taking the time to explain what you were doing in what must have been far from ideal circumstances. More big electrically challenging stuff, please. Keep safe though, I wouldn't want you to turn into a red mist. Any chance of a post-job update, I assume things got sorted?

There are a couple of these sites in North London. They don't connect to our network but they are next to our sites. Cory you need to visit a national grid site one day. 400kV focuses the mind abit!

The memories it bring back of walking with Dad around HV up to 132KV substations as kid with open and live switch gear. He was brought up in the era when some houses still had DC feed pre-standardisation. I thought nothing of doubling up a socket live at home, with my Dads insulated rubber gloves, 4 sizes too big and not tripping the house.

Great video Cory. I have sold gas engines & CHP solutions in the UK for the past 13 years (nat. Gas bio gas and Hydrogen fuelled). I was also the accountant manager for the CHPs that are installed at the UK&I Center Parc sites. Happy to answer any questions on CHPs if you need any help. PS I now work for a Wind Turbine OEM for projects in the UK&I

Great content Cory. Defo would like to see more

Great video and I'd thought I'd never see the day, Jamie not swearing on video 😆😆😆

Love the video content. Done 45 years as an electrician could not do house busting. Go for industrial. Thanks for sharing

I have the same enthusiasm loved working on industrial electrical factory plants even working through the night to get the work done, always like working with engineers who had more knowledge about equipment than me, 77 years young and still addicted to buying tools 😂, love watching your videos.

Great Video really enjoyed this one thanks Cory and nice seeing Jamie

Love those Mersen fuse disconnectors, got the 2 pole version on my DIY Home battery.

Great video loved industrial work. For tapping the holes in the plate you can use a drill tap or put a clinch nut in. Keep up the good work

Great video 👍 i work on maintaining these generators all over the country. Good fun!

I used to put the tap in the drill. Best to wear safety specs when drilling metal too.

Lovely stuff. Bit of bonus Jamie too. 👍🏻

Good to see behind the scenes in UK for once 😅👍

Great video and yes more please! One tip, when tapping, turn the tap backward a quarter turn for every turn, helps break off the swarf ;)

Great video, really interesting!

I really liked this video. Makes a change seeing electrical work different to the ordinary. Was a pleasure to see what Jamie gets up to outside of the electricians podcast.

Good job Cory and good to see Jamie.

3:30 I once had a chance to visit a 22kV substation during construction. The switches were at ground level (with these nice enclosures, and a panel on it, all made for human interaction), and the massive cables were fed through the basement. Visiting the basement with these cables, and the cable boots exposed, some lying on the ground to be installed, down there it looked like NO HUMAN SHOULD BE HERE, it was quite a bit frightening for me - even I *knew* 100% the cables were not live. Also I once visited an exhibition in a museum on 90 years of Hamburg subway, and they had recreated a bit of subway track at the entrance, and to get into the exhibition you had to get over this recreated bit of track (really!), which including a third rail. It all looked very very real (they even had a tunnel enclosure and dim lighting!), every fiber in me seemed to scream: "Don't go there!!!".

More of this please, its my bread and butter and im sad enough to enjoy watching it out of work. It's Solar maintenance season now, if you want to see the sorry state some of the Solar farms are built like drop me a message.

Love the variety in your content - it's fascinating for a non-electrician.

There’s plenty of videos on KZfaq demonstrating that turning your chuck back is all a myth.

Great video Cory, It's much easier to assemble the components on to steel before installing

Very interesting as usual Cory 😉

Good different type of video. Cheers guys

Let’s see some more heavy duty stuff. 👍👍 Good video Cory.

I suspect it is far to technical to explain to a politician, that if you have a grid straining under the load, then want everyone to have electric vehicles, and transfer heating and cooking loads from gas to electricity, that there might just be a bit of a problem.

It's interesting seeing the system from the other end. Might share with my colleagues as we fuss about issuing instructions to DNOs to curtail generation because of boundary constraints.

Nice work Cory

This chap is one of the millions of unsung heroes that keep society from turning into a Mad Max scenario. Thank you young man

1000% Thanks Cory 👍

I have some degree of familiarity with railway electrics so I believe I _should_ feel comfortable around 25KV OHL or 50KA DCCR...But seeing Cory working on that 2KA equipment still sent a few chills down my spine even though he'd shown _and told_ us the NG end was locked-off! 😀 Thankfully, the only thing I actually work on is my own consumer LV stuff. Probably just as well, all things considered! 🙃

I quite enjoy industrial jobs. More please!

Is this why my power kept going off (near Bournemouth) the other week 😂 Corey messing around

I'm on site today testing a new 11kV switchboard at a paper mill. On Wednesday I'm working on a 220-33kV transformer

Rivnuts mate. Nice work Bro.

Cory, you need to get down to the motor spares shop, get yourself a decent torque wrench and other heavy duty tools 😁

The dream team we all need. Corie or Jamry? Would be a crime if more of this content isn't released. Excellent stuff guys thanks.

@ 22:40 - Synchronous condensors! These little bad bois are fun! They never stop shpinning. There are three on our grid here in SA - two in op and one being built - each are 180 tonnes. They move reasonably quickly.

Cory, what you really need is some good spiral pointed (!) taps. Those are superb for throughholes like the ones you are threading here and you can just pop them in the drill and ram it through the hole with a lot less risk of breakage.

I recently started a job building industrial control panels, and it's a weird feeling to see products on KZfaq that you work with on a daily basis.

Very interesting. No idea you did this stuff

Just subscribed. Fun to compare what's going on, on the other side of the pond here in the USA. Enjoyed the video!

14:00 Rivnuts are usually really good for getting threads into sheet metal 🙂 I picked up a Rivnut starter kit type thing from eBay for about 40 quid, and it just sits in the van until needed, and when it's needed it saves a lot of messing about. Give us all a van tour sometime 🙂🙂

Wish I'd had Tradifi 12 years ago when I was shrink wraping 12/40ft boats.

Fantastic video Cory! And a PG Jamie. Lol. More please!

REAL, WORKING BLOKES SWEAR! Don't wory mate, we know what ends up on the cutting room floor. 😊

Electronic sync of the alternators, I have a 1920s book of dynamo and alternator engineering where they describe syncing using light bulbs connected between the two lines, when the bulbs go dark the two alternators are in sync and the linesman can throw the switch. I used to build alternator sets,started as a hobby when I was about 14 and I got the previously mentioned book, biggest I ever did was 150 KVA and the worst belt was from a 45 KVA 3 phase machine when I was setting up the AVR board and somehow I managed to touch the output of two phases with the side of my left hand, no burns but a dreadful buzzing feeling in the hand which lasted the rest of the day.

The think I like about you Cory, compared to the Artisan manager, you point things out regarding other electricians shabby work and then show the right way, but you don’t elaborate and go on about it, this is why I prefer your style of methods, your more down to earth, you can correct me if I’m wrong.

Amazing video, really interesting!

Interesting change of location and content. Certainly up for more of this kind of engineering. Get some well earned rest!

Nice video, I think that Conrad are the only company who build and operate their own sites in the UK!

Really interesting video Corey first time ive seen the inside guts of these large generators we have one in weymouth at chickerell grid station. They are also on about adding a big battery storage scheme apparently rated at 400MW not sure if it will go ahead lots of local objection anyhow il stop waffling now x

Just found your channel and subscribed. I used to be in a very similar line of work, but predominantly on large DC systems. However, that was back in the days when drills all had mains leads and chucks all had keys. On the subject of chucks; the 'single reverse click thing' has been mythbusted several times now. I would have also used 'nutserts' for fixing to such a thin panel.

thanks for breaking the wall between mega corps and plebs

Interesing stuff, closer to the stuff i do on a daily basis. I some times wish i could record the stuff go around doin.

Facinating... Subbed and liked I have worked with ENW a few times through a company I worked for.... I designed a circuit that could remotely control a panel about a mile away. It involved a LORA Transceiver and controlled a G50 unit... It had to have an RF connection (866MHz) because the control room was outside the perimeter of the complex and there was a car park in the way....the alternative would be to dig up the car park and lay cables.... Hope it's still working.....

Please more stuff like this. CHP is a very interesting field

I love a good rant video!

‘He’s going to torque the torque’. 😂

Please make more content like this !

Nice camera work . Nice effects

Fascinating video. 👏 Do you have to connect an earth to your metal sheet or is it not necessarily cos it's touching other earthed metal? x

Speaking of heat recovery, I am a propane delivery driver, and I met this fella who owns tomato greenhouses. next door to him he has a diesel motor powered sawmill. so he made a deal with them to put a heat exchanger before their radiator to steal that heat and pump it to his greenhouse. so that way he saves some money on propane to keep his greenhouse warm.

Parkside tools absolutely rock!