How to Clip Twin and Earth Cable Like a Professional

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In this video we look at the skills required to dress and clip twin and earth cable (twin and CPC cable) straight and flat to a surface. It is important in the early stages of studying to become an electrician to master these transferable skills.
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== 🕐 Time Stamps - Cut to the action 🕕 ==
00:00 - Clipping twin and earth cable
00:31 - Dressing cables on site
00:41 - On site clipping
01:06 - Cable clips
01:48 - Pet snake
02:18 - Run the cable through your hands
03:04 - Cable drops
04:34 - Dragging technique close up
05:52 - Working out my first clip
06:38 - First clip
07:04 - Removing a incorrect cable clip
08:27 - Looking good
08:46 - Clipping distance
09:03 - Last clip position
09:33 - Working out the clipping distance
10:34 - Pin the cable
12:24 - Last clip
13:04 - Is it straight?
13:32 - Moving a clip to make it straight
13:56 - Like a pro
15:06 - Now that is flat
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@andrewstevenson6026 Жыл бұрын

Great tuition vid Gary, a couple of things that I have been taught over the years: If securing to a brick or block wall, use the correct pin plugs instead of roofing tacks etc, it makes for a better fixing, Thorsmann used to do them, Schneider now make them. 55PP1 I think is the part number for the plugs, they are small grey things. If securing horizontally, I was always taught to clip with the nail on the underside of the cable as the nail helps support the cable to a better degree.

@GSHElectrical Жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to add your input and experiences 👍🏻

@Dog-whisperer7494 Жыл бұрын

Funny how I still do it that way after 30 odd years. I’ve always believed if your tort well by a good teacher then you’ll never forget all the skills you were tort. You may not use all of them in the real world but they can come in handy sometimes . Fantastic video Gaz as always 👍👍👍👍❤️

@faisalhussain589 Жыл бұрын

Can’t say that about your English teacher though 😂

@IAmThe_RA Жыл бұрын

@@faisalhussain589 His tort well by his teacher.

@Oufg103f Жыл бұрын

Great video Gaz, when the clipping of a cables is done perfectly like in Ur video it really is an art form. 👍

@GSHElectrical Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great comment

@robertmawby3021 Жыл бұрын

Nice work on a wooden board. Can we see how you do it on hard brickwork with hard mortar please?

@macmcc4651 Жыл бұрын

F***ing easy

@robertmawby3021 Жыл бұрын

@@macmcc4651 yeh right.

@gwil6100 Жыл бұрын

NIce Gaz!! Basics are so important and often overlooked!

@GSHElectrical Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the support

@UKLeonie Жыл бұрын

Well shown and explained 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@GSHElectrical Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍🏻

@Dog-whisperer7494 Жыл бұрын

One of the skills I have always remembered is to get the correct internal radius when bending TW&E, say along the top of the wall then down to a switch use a 4 gang JB one of those horrible brown things Keep the cable flat and Bend it round the JB to get a nice clean 90d bend . Top tip

@GSHElectrical Жыл бұрын

How to Put a Smooth Bend in Twin and Earth Cable kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n9ymaa57t6eaqXk.html

@GSHElectrical Жыл бұрын

What is the Minimum Internal Bending Radius for Cable Used in Fixed Wiring According to BS7671 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y9ZplJWg2a27mmQ.html

@therealdojj Жыл бұрын

The obvious question to ask then, those cables are going into bare walls, so are you going to plaster over the top of them or are they going to be free to view? Thanks

@nocode1603 Жыл бұрын

Nice 1 gaz I was taught to put your first clip in the a second next to the first but nail on other side then dress your cable makes it almost impossible to pull out always seems to be the case inside a stud partition when u really need to move a cable 🤯👏

@GSHElectrical Жыл бұрын

Thanks for adding you thoughts and watching 👍🏻

@cjkokay Жыл бұрын

Hi Gary. 30+ years ago I was doing clipping. Then as mandatory was 230mm which was my hammer length. I still clip. The only time I'm might be fussy about even spacing is if the fixings were exposed to public view.

@GSHElectrical Жыл бұрын

All the clipping in college setting is on display

@tourcheverybridge Жыл бұрын

yep I just a Eastwing “Hammesure” had it 20 plus years still works just fine ..😂

@paul_my_plumbs_uk Жыл бұрын

By the time you've clipped the cable Gaz Gordon is still waiting for the thrillwaukee clips 😂😂😂⌚⌚⌚

@GSHElectrical Жыл бұрын

Old school Gaz

@paul_my_plumbs_uk Жыл бұрын

@@GSHElectrical i wouldn't say old but mature like a fine wine or cheese 🍷🍷🍷😜😜😜

@AAW-Electrics Жыл бұрын

Lovely, tidy job! - A laser level would aid (and speed up) the alignment process no end.

@GSHElectrical Жыл бұрын

Sadly we don’t have them in college so it’s old school for us 👍🏻

@cag9284 Жыл бұрын

Nice one Gary... "Cable pincers "... they are Carpenter's pincers.. lol

@GSHElectrical Жыл бұрын

Quite possibly I’ve had them years 👍🏻

@garypautard1069 Жыл бұрын

Carpenters pincers are very useful when pulling out old cut nails when taking up floorboards. Better than a claw hammer or nail bar.

@sergiofernandez3725 Жыл бұрын

Is that the Wiha electricians hammer?

@GSHElectrical Жыл бұрын

Yes 👍🏻

@waynewinky2754 8 ай бұрын

Not easy to do this when stuck in a dormer crawl space or small loft with limted room on a blazing hot day and it's like a furnace where youre working whilst carefully stepping on roof joists without putting your foot through the ceiling below and trying to clip new and often retained chunky stiff wiring. Sometimes you just have to do wha'ts best. As long as there's no sharp 90 degree bends or kinks, or cables bunched together which could overheat you're generally OK. Just bang your clips in spaced at hammer length with the cable eyed in as flat and straight as possible as you go along. Metal clips need a bit more care compared to the plastic ones as they have a tendency to squish.

@GSHElectrical 8 ай бұрын

Totally agree but when your training it has to be perfect 👍🏻

@waynewinky2754 8 ай бұрын

@@GSHElectrical Totally agree and sets you up to take pride and care in the future when on site where you develop with experience and practice an eye for straight runs and clip spacings.

@MrIbib Жыл бұрын

When doing 2 plate, you usually have three cables. A 6 or 10mm clip will hold all three cables.* Also, mark 300mm on your hammer, then use that as a guide. *as other have said, it’s not best practice, don’t do it on your AM2!

@posei3960 Жыл бұрын

Using one clip,for multiple cables contravenes the regs UNLESS it is designed to be used like that

@anthonybragg Жыл бұрын

@@posei3960 You can/could get cable clips that take 2 cables by design but they ate mostly not stocked at wholesalers as not requested for, that's why 6 or 10mm clips are used.

@MrIbib Жыл бұрын

@@posei3960 what reg number is that? I could be wrong but I don’t recall it. If they’re flat and secured, I can’t see how it will make any real difference. If you’re bundling loads of cables and they’re not flat, it’ll affect their rating.

@MrIbib Жыл бұрын

@@anthonybragg maybe it’s the clips I use. The 10mm’s I use will fit 3 1mm’s flat. 6mm clip will fit 2.

@AAW-Electrics Жыл бұрын

3:58 Confused by those two doorways on the left... The blocked up one has a lintel and the open one doesn't!... lol

@billsbasementworkshop1902 Жыл бұрын

Is unbumping actualy a word?

@GSHElectrical Жыл бұрын

It is now 🤔😆👍🏻

@rattlehead85 Жыл бұрын

Great to see it done right. However, nowadays out in the real world if you was on site doing all that messing around especially if the cables were being covered over you’d be pulled in and shown the door. I have lost count the number of times ive seen people come out of college ending up on site adapting their skills and quickly get shot down with “we haven’t got all day to tit around with all that nonsense….get them in and move on”

@GSHElectrical Жыл бұрын

Remember this is training site work is different but massive thanks for your thoughts and watching 👍🏻

@AAW-Electrics Жыл бұрын

And this may be why a lot of new builds are so shockingly Shite!?