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Wall-Mounting Clips for Oil Cans?
flutedchamber:
"Fluted Chamber, are you in the UK? I've spent my working life in the UK electrical and electronic engineering industries and I've never seen conduit clips like the one in your picture. I have seen clips like that for mounting large hi-power wirewound resistors."
No, I'm in the US. I always thought those clips were used worldwide. I learned something today :thumbup:
Pete W.:
Hi there, Fluted Chamber,
The type of conduit clamp most commonly used in the UK is the 'spacer bar saddle clip', it looks like this: http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/CO20SAD.html
The one pictured is enamel finish, they also come galvanised. The spacer bar (or base-plate) sets the conduit off the mounting surface by a standard distance that corresponds to the position of the semi-pierced knock-outs in the back boxes for the switches and sockets (aka 'receptacles'?). There's also a faired-off or streamlined version called, I think, a 'hospital pattern' clip. That has minimal nooks and crannies to trap dirt and bacteria. Then again, maybe I'm getting mixed up with plumbing pipe fixings about that one?
There are also a couple of ranges of plastic conduit with accompanying plastic saddle clips, couplers, elbows, etc., etc..
I wasn't a professional electrician but I have installed a few lengths of conduit in my time. When I was learning (by watching a 'proper' electrician working nearby instead of attending to my own job!) the lubricant for cutting the threads on the ends of the conduit was tallow or beef dripping - nowadays it's something much more chemical that has a hazchem rating ('do not dispose of in drains or water courses'!)
Bluechip:
--- Quote from: Pete W. on May 13, 2014, 02:57:13 PM ---There's also a faired-off or streamlined version called, I think, a 'hospital pattern' clip. That has minimal nooks and crannies to trap dirt and bacteria. Then again, maybe I'm getting mixed up with plumbing pipe fixings about that one?
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You're right. That's what they were called. Galvanised or occasionally stainless for really posh jobs .
Brings back memories of stinking rancid tallow infesting my overalls. :palm: And two skinny trainees trying to screw-cut 2" stainless solid drawn conduit with Easterbrook Ratchet dies. Purple in the face, gasping for breath and eyeballs sticking out like a racing dog's goolies and we'd only managed two threads ... :bang:
Long time ago .... :(
Dave
krv3000:
hi well just a tip don.t go in to big cemist stors just go to your lockel one and xplane it helps if you tack sum refrence materale with you ie a book or a magasen and xplane wat you intend to use the items you are after for i got sun cemicels for blacking steel from mine and she was very hepful as most of the cemicels listed in the book that i had was ether band or nonegsistent
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