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Hi flyingsparks I live in Canada Water (next to Canary Wharf) in East London SE8

Well he is Jamacian, so it is HIGHly possible ;-)

I already ordered a 20mm die and I bought a hand pipe bender a while ago which is useless for rigid steel conduit ha ha I took it over to me friend who is a big muscled body builder and he couldn't bend the conduit with it either so I was happy with that ;) A pipe vice is an interesting one, I...

Actually I just realised I didn't deduct the resistance of the lead I used from the CU earth to the socket to test it with, which is the earth wire of a 2.5mm2 lead which flicks between 0.2 and 0.3 ohms for itself. So maybe not so bad after all.

Yes and I did use a Dremel with a wire brush and another end with sandpaper to polish the conduit but I couldn't get to do all the way around the conduit. I have another go and see if I can do a better job.

Yes I did think about that. The guy broke the seal on my electricity meter so he could remove the tails from it to isolate the CU. Does this mean I will get in trouble from the electricity company as they may think I have been up to no good ?

I guess I need to go around checking out each socket first of all and checking the conduit continuity between them to check out the overall state. All this just because I wanted to put a bathroom fan in and I thought if I am getting someone in to do it I might as well get them to replace the...

By the way my die and stock arrived today and I managed to thread the conduit with an M16 thread and the 20mm to 16mm reducer fits snug on the end. M16 thread by Gazzer23 posted 8 Mar 2018 at 5:50 PM Not sure I need it now but it was an interesting exercise.

sparkwright and bernardgreen, you both have good suggestions. I definitely don't like all the bodged cables with tape or shrink wrap insulation in the CU and they need replacing for sure. The flat wiring is a mess, as someone has added to it over the years and when taking a step back and...

For a minute I thought you meant me. I will get an Electrician to check it or maybe even do it but I want to work out a correct way to do it so when I ask him about it I can get an idea about him by his response.

Hi Guys Almost there with my parts etc, just waiting for a die stock to arrive so I can put my M16 thread on my 5/8" conduit. I was wondering about my consumer unit when I redo it so it has proper mating with the conduits etc about moving the tails entry to the left hand side of the consumer...

Looking at M16 dies, I see there are several types x 2, x 1.5 which refers to the thread pitch. The 20 mm to 16 mm reducer doesn't state what thread pitch it uses, I thought it would be the coarse one of 2 mm pitch that is used but then I found one in Australia which states it uses 1.5 mm...

I was looking at custom CNC the other night, there are several places in China that do it but I suspect they require reasonable quantities. That is a very good idea, I just need to find someone with a lathe. There is a miniature railway club that we take our little boy to and they got lots of...

I just found this very comprehensive catalogue which seems to have every kind of adaptor and they even have ones for 5/8" but based in USA I think. http://updates.clipsal.com/clipsalonline/files/brochures/cms0004.pdf So I could use a 5/8" male to 16mm female adaptor to screw into the existing...

Yes that would be nice if I could find one that way around but I have tried. I just seen these but got no idea what 0.5 or 1.0 ET is, but look at the price £999 each ;) http://www.remora.net/catalogue/Glands/Hazardous-Area-Converters/ET-Metric-Hazardous-Reducers/ET-Imperial-Metric-Reducer The...