Rigid plastic conduit.

[Capitol]

I'm just starting to put the wires through this stuff and IMO the bends are designed by idiots. It is not possible to put a fish tape through as there are shoulders in the bend mouldings, so it is necessary to undo the cover plates and persuade the tape to avoid the shoulder with a finger. The last lot of cast steel bends I used worked perfectly. Why can't people get a simple product right?

Incidentally, conduit wire insulation appears to have much thicker insulation now than 40 years ago. Is this always the case?

[Tim Watts]

Don't use the bend joints - form the bends with a pipe bending spring :)

[Harry Bloomfield]

Capitol brought next idea :

A proper punch needs a matching socket - a female part with a hole to closely match the male punch.

Rather than brass or 'brass' I have had success with the plastic eyelets. They come in two parts, and go together with a snap action.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Very good, Harry. ;-)

[Nightjar]

Do you mean bends:

inspection bends:

or inspection elbows:

The last have always been difficult to get wiring round.

Not used any recently to know.

[Harry Bloomfield]

Harry Bloomfield was thinking very hard :

How did that happen?

[Capitol]

Inspection bends, conduit bends are too long for the situation and inspection elbows are too tight for 6 cables.

[Nightjar]

Odd. I've never found a problem with them, or at least not with the Egatube versions.

[ARW]

I thought I once told you to use 22mm copper bends:-)

[Brian Gaff]

And why does it seem to smell like some sort of anti fungus treatment? I walked past some people using some a few weeks ago, its either that or the guy has strange taste in after shave!

Brian