Top Tips for Marking and Cutting Metal Trunking

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  • Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
  • In this video, we demonstrate how to accurately mark up and cut metal trunking used in an electrical installation. We start by exploring the essential hand tools needed and then some top tips to ensure you achieve a straight and smooth cut.
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    00:00 Marking and cutting metal trunking
    00:54 Tools and equipment
    02:42 700mm or 70cm
    03:05 Mark the trunking
    03:54 Using a block of wood
    04:52 TPI
    05:27 Cut one side at a time
    08:14 Gloves
    08:24 Smooth end required
    09:09 Spray end
    09:49 NOW we are going to cut the trunking
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Комментарии • 31

  • @efixx
    @efixx  Год назад +1

    Ready for the next part of this series 👉 ruclips.net/p/PLmWOIPxaBWH5WNeX90-GHHM6cB4lkxPMF

  • @TheGreatestBeyonder
    @TheGreatestBeyonder Год назад +7

    After years of use… I’m 100% in the camp of using a Makita metal cutting 6” circular saw! Fast and straight cuts everytime whether it’s 50x50 or 100x100 or ladder racking! 👍🏻

    • @smacznykonsek
      @smacznykonsek Год назад

      Same here. Althought I use Mileaukee metal skillsaw. Straightest, quickest and neatest for tray, trunking, ladderrack, basket and even tube and paxilin

  • @stunimbus1543
    @stunimbus1543 Год назад +12

    A vice!!! Your lucky if there's a beer crate to work on when your on site.

    • @ja_adam_
      @ja_adam_ Год назад +3

      I have a dream… that every site will have a vice 😅

    • @karbinunit
      @karbinunit 3 месяца назад +2

      Was going to say!!! knee on it sawing half out a door....... seen it all!!

  • @GSHElectrical
    @GSHElectrical Год назад +2

    Fantastic video Jake and Joe 👍🏻

  • @sergiofernandez3725
    @sergiofernandez3725 Год назад +2

    Nice tutorial guys showing marking up and cutting with a hacksaw. A top tip for the finished edge. Spray the galv spray on the cardboard and make a tiny pool and then dip the cut end into it. Try it. The finished article is cleaner and there is no unsightly overspray showing.

  • @electricsandotherstuff5258
    @electricsandotherstuff5258 Год назад +4

    For really accurate cuts, the making should be scribed and the cut made on the waste side of the line.

  • @y3v1k
    @y3v1k Год назад +2

    Big fat marker, hands and angle grinder 😁

  • @95555219
    @95555219 Месяц назад

    Any idea to make a long radius cable tray Tee?

  • @michaelpavel5728
    @michaelpavel5728 Год назад +3

    Great content 😎I prefer using the angle grinder

  • @therealdojj
    @therealdojj Год назад

    One of the things we had to do at engineering college was cut, using a hacksaw, a block of metal that was 10mm X 100mm at a certain length and in a straight a line as possible
    It was the last process after we'd done a load of machining to it over the previous day so it was a skill we couldn't afford to mess up

  • @skyemac8
    @skyemac8 Год назад

    A metal chop saw is golden for this.

  • @esparks5893
    @esparks5893 Год назад +1

    Very useful tool this. Great for cutting uni-strut, threaded rod etc. Negates the need for a hot works permit too.

    • @stevenredmond7455
      @stevenredmond7455 Год назад

      134mm circular saw with metal cold cutting blade is the best.

    • @esparks5893
      @esparks5893 Год назад +1

      @@stevenredmond7455 yes, agreed once cutting on the ground but if you have to modify steel work once installed a circular saw not much use in that application. This tool will do both in most instances and very well.

  • @leem270
    @leem270 8 месяцев назад +1

    who has a block of wood the perfect size and a vice on site when doing trunking haha.
    Great video though ;)

  • @malikjamal9857
    @malikjamal9857 Год назад +1

    Very nice bro

  • @johnsheppard7388
    @johnsheppard7388 Год назад +2

    The looks like a 14 TPI blade, wouldn't you get a much better cutter if you used a finer blade, maybe even 24 TPI ?

  • @PJPsounds
    @PJPsounds 3 дня назад

    Most of construction sites have no vice and nobody is carrying piece of wood with them.

  • @stevenredmond7455
    @stevenredmond7455 Год назад +2

    Vice my arse, 😂😂 tell me what site has a vice to use. Jig saw for 4” or more, chop saw for 2”.

    • @johnaphone
      @johnaphone Год назад +1

      Do a lot of plantrooms, and the pipe fitters chain vice is usually in their. Very useful for trunking, conduit and rod

  • @aleksandrp5
    @aleksandrp5 Год назад

    Если хочешь убить время делай так, а если хочешь заняться делом возьми болгарку...

  • @dauunsuc
    @dauunsuc Год назад +1

    Common guys. Jigsaw all the way.

    • @efixx
      @efixx  Год назад +1

      Totally agree but in a college setting the hacksaw still rules 👍🏻

    • @Jay369
      @Jay369 Год назад

      Grinder?

    • @dauunsuc
      @dauunsuc Год назад

      @@Jay369 A bit risky cause in some sites is not allowed, otherwise I will go for a grinder too.