Ah yes, the lost of art lacing a cable loom. How I not miss those days :) Although, I must confess I laced the cable loom for my personal three phase star triangle contactors, just to see if I could still do it. But cable ties and covers are way faster

I use klauke EK60 ( old model with old makita batterys ) a lot at my job at a factory .. i do own the chinese one like in video .. it does work .. but the klauke is soooooooooo much easyer ..but expensive if you only need it couple time a year ..

Im agree

@@kittsdiy i think we have the same model at work. its a slow crimper, we also have a weidmüller epg 60 crimper its much faster, and a way more balanced which is a good thing when you are using it a lot. would love to try the milwaukee ones too but i cant get my hands on 1 for a test

@@DeviloftheHelll epg60 looks nice too .. and yes Milwaukee force seems nice too .. but i never will buy one .. way to expensive for not using every day/week . ( unless i can find a used one very cheap )

@@kittsdiy same goes for me. its a company owned tool we just get to use it

So true, we were moving our office in Essex and had the business wanting to power up their data centre and DNO UKPN saying yeh we will upgrade the sub on our terms and timescales

90% bad planning 10% unforeseen problems

Aye getting the old solder pot up to temp on the gas ring and wiping the cone on the gland,happy days

@@anthonyschofield7807 Don't forget the flux and cut back the conductor insulation and use insulation tape to cover the exposed copper/aluminium.

@@terrypark5886 Aye scotch tape I bet you can’t buy that now and imagine showing a new apprentice how to prepare a wiping cloth. I laugh at some of these videos now with their tin box dis-boards and wonder how they would go on with Bill Imperial iron clad switchgear

@ Antony Schofield I started 1969 working to the 14th edition of the regs. Cast iron bain of my life drilling for what seem like a life time and those stupid Enox cutters. Remember the narrow MEM distboard had to use long nose pliers to enter the conductors into line, neutral and earth (cpc) terminals. The days of rawlplug tool and fibre plugs. Conduit bashing started with a wooden block and from nowhere Hilmore bender with the vice appeared. Installing 240 mm swa using brooms to hold swa against the ceiling while your mate cleated as you progressed along the run. MICC 1.5 to 150mm dressing and making ends in the freezing cold wearing a donkey jacket on one of many petroleum refineries. Metal trunking making right angle and set bends of different degrees. House bashing 1930 newspapers under the lino or carpet stained with pets urine. Wooden fuseboxes without a main isolators, porcelain interiors and fuses. Immaculate installed lead or TRS cables. 1/044 and 7/ 029 stranded conductors became 1.5 and 2.5mm singles. Working live on busbar chambers plastic sheets over the bars, earthing removed, bum cheeks in tight mode as you drill and tap the 500 amp live busbar. Lug in place tighten the brass bolt saying to yourself "I survived." The voltage tester a 60 watt lamp flex pendant. As a machine sparks life was so simple in the electro/mechanical era visual inspection of contactors / relays making or breaking assisted when fault finding. Finally skill of electrical design out the window all the calculations on software, I miss my slide rule. Fifty three years later still sparking. Get Outlook for Android

@@terrypark5886 I started in ‘63 but had a very similar experience over 54 years! 2 inch conduit bent with a screw operated bender,bending block a treasured possession when it was properly broken in. Seeing cables going from lead via tough rubber to PVC,mounting sockets and switches on wooden patresses.13th edition then and testing was extremely basic,500 volt wind up meggers.Still installing paper lead cables.Seeing so many different MI tools come and go and they never got them right.But always learning,always something new and new tools to buy,at 73 years old I still buy bloody tools 😁. You and I have probably seen everything in our game and have some stories to tell,some situations would scare the pants off young sparks today.Health and Safety??As for slide rules I doubt anyone could use one today.Cable calcs?How long ,what current,volt drop,who ever dreamed about disconnection times and that short circuits wouldn’t blow fuses? A good job though,so many opportunities to make money on the side,Burglar alarms,satellite TV,CCTV someone always wanted something Cheers anyway nice to reminisce

You won’t go far wrong if you do bud. Mike is one of the best on here really knows his stuff and chucks out tidy work, job after job. 🤌🏻👏🏻👌🏻(I’m just here fanboying 🤣)

@@residualcurrent yeah the last one i fitted the panels were paper thin and those silly little self tapper type screws.. a real ball ache , cant beat a chunky old Eaton

and i bet the scrap man loved you hahaha

don't get that mistake much.. couldn't he just reverse the other side ? ( where no live is ) instead of again calling the DNO to turn off the power for maybe 15-30 minutes to change 2 wires in the braker ? Sounds silly to me .. i find i not such big mistake .. we usually measure the phase rotation to see if it's correct .. but on a dead board that's hard .. Really bad dessign of board ... you have to call DNO before working in it is possible ..

@@residualcurrent Still silly you need to call DNO cut the feed to that board. Factory i work usally have a pvc isolation over the incoming tales ( in this case under de main isolator switch ) I can understand not working in a board with live busbars ..( i don't do this also ) Couple weeks ago i added a 250A braker to an 800amp board just powered off the main switch and then removed plastic cover off buss bars ( not the tales ofcourse ! ) . The 2x300mm² aluminum tales where still live but unable to touch .. plastic cover protected. in this case a pcb cover over main tales ( underside of main isolator ) would make things al lot easyer to service .. Remove the metal front when everything live would also be not done here . ( i can understand the cut the cables of the brakers in this case lol )

@@residualcurrent also, why it is that we always have the Incomer side at the bottom of a panel?

@@ajinkyadagadkhair5474 because the incomers enter through the bottom and you don't want the cables to be strained.

I'd this comment showing against one of your older videos? I made it against the one from today, not sure what has happened there!?

Izumi Japanese are the best but cost the most.

That and the fact that you spend less time fighting a bloody fucking bear to put them in place ^^

@@residualcurrent thanks man! Im just starting out on this journey! first semester down!! Great channel my dude!

@@emotionalcontentmediaunltd2267 if it looks like ally it’s probably tinned copper

They don't have to be smaller but they can sometimes .. when we run 4x120mm² we use 70mm² CPC . when we run 4x50mm² we use 35mm² CPC . This is approved here .. can vary in other countrys ofcourse ..

Half the diameter seems very small to me, are you sure you don't mean half the CSA? My understanding is that here in the UK reduced-size neutrals are sometimes seen on older installs but have fallen out of favor because of concerns about unbalaced loads and harmonic currents. Earths on the other hand often are smaller than the phase conductor. In principle, there are calculations that can be used to work out the minimum size for the earth condutor. In practice it often depends on the cable type, larger sizes of twin and earth cable come with an earth conductor two standard sizes smaller (about two fifths the size) than the phase/neutral condutors. Armoured cables come with all cores the same size, so your options there are to either have a full sized earth conductor, to rely on the armoring for the earth or to run a seperate earth conductor. In this particular job he was using single wires in trunking with parallel pairs of 185mm² for the phase and neutral conductors but only a single run of 185mm² for the earth.

@@petermichaelgreen No this way we have multipe doen in Factory i work and approved by inspector . On the other hand we installed 300mm² unipolar double per fase ( 2x 300mm² and also de PEN was double ( 2x 300mm²) ( The neutral is then splitted in the first board ) . According to or A.R.E.I. ( rules in Belgium of electrical installations ) The the cpc has to be at least halve the size of the Line conductor .

Agreed. Black on black doesn't work so well. I keep a white and a black in my tool pouch. I also don't get the point of putting the same coloured shrink on top of a cable. Waste of time and $$$.

I'd say the demand for the distribution mains would require 400mm^2 cable, so to save money and heartache from pulling such a large cable, you can parallel the cables (run two sets) like old mate has done to deliver the same amount of current carrying capacity as a larger cable would do. You just need to make sure that both sets run the exact same distance and terminated together for equal current to the supply, hope this helps.

@@residualcurrent We use 185/240mm tri-rate a lot ( we actually don't go above 240 we just bin up) but they are def Tri not Bi Rate. Don't see the point in battling with old school when you can just go this century... But I did like the portaBand choppy, obvs i don't need that as I don't use 7-strand (class2) but REALLY tidy solution IMHO... :-)

Hi. I saw your comment, was just wondering what cable crimpers you would recommend, I have tried various types over the years and have never been entirely satisfied with any of them.

@@stanleyadamson912 www.klauke.com/de/de/ekm-60-22-akkuhydraulisches-presswerkzeug-6-300-mm

We sometimes even use grinders ...but yes the klauke is very nice ... but $$$$$$$$$$$