As far as I know there is no means of engineering bends on site, but the companies that produce those bars can make curved ones to order. I imagine it requires fairly serious machinery. Usually these days aluminium scaffold pole is used, but older ones were standard galv. steel. I must admit I'm never examined the inside of an old steel one.
Running power cables between buildings
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As far as I know there is no means of engineering bends on site, but the companies that produce those bars can make curved ones to order. I imagine it requires fairly serious machinery. Usually these days aluminium scaffold pole is used, but older ones were standard galv. steel. I must admit I'm never examined the inside of an old steel one.
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and with square-pin sockets?
Mostly round pin, although you can specify any sockets you like. Convention for theatre work is round pin 15A for dimmer circuits and either 16A CEEform/Commando or sometimes 13A square pin for non-dim.
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I'm increasingly seeing 16A ceeform used for lanterns and fixtures, both for hard power and dimmed. For example, point source have changed all their hire stock to 16a. They are a real pain to wire up neatly on a bar, particularly the twofers!! When i hire from them i have to remember to ask for 16/15 adapters to plug into the fixed 15A outlets in the grid.
Thank you for this, all laid - another question;
The outbuilding/garage will house a few lights and dryer and some sockets - I am fitting inside it some form of fused isolation probably a small consumer unit which will link to a the main consumer unit which has a switch just labelled garage; so to get from the main consumer unit to the exterior before going underground can I fix square conduit to the underneath of floorboards to make a fixed channel for cables and easy installation - as apposed to dropping them on the dirt or nailing underneath floorboards.
I also wish to put the cooker and kitchen cables through it.
Its a 5m run but hours of work just to run cables @ electricians rates will be pricey so just thought I could be the labourer in an 18" crawl space.
I'm sure your electrician will be happy not to be crawling under a floor.
But ask him - you cannot morally ask him to tell the council that he did all of the work unless you agree up-front what labouring you will do.
But ask him - you cannot morally ask him to tell the council that he did all of the work unless you agree up-front what labouring you will do.
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I don't understand.
Flame didn't say cable duct was a no-no. In fact, he recommended cable duct.
He did, but the quoting process removed the previous quote ("a scaffold pole?") to which flameport had answered "No"- and it was in response to that "No" that winston posted "Why not?".
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Ta, duck.
Noseall should be familiar with that!
Noseall should be familiar with that!
I just have - my wood lathe uses scaffold tube for the bed. There's a very rough welded seam running down it. I certainly wouldn't want to run single-insulated cables in it, and not sure about insulated & sheathed.
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