hello and welcome to this next in a series of videos in which we're covering the subject of
trunking we've got the great honor of having lecturer Jake with us who's going to help us
out with this subject and in previous videos we've looked at an overview of the subject
we've looked at the different accessories that you might come across in the world of trunking
and we've also looked how to cut and treat trunking in those initial stages what are
we going to be doing in this video Jake well Joe we're going to look at cutting lid and fitting end
caps we're going to look at the more traditional way that you'd probably do this at college and on
site but here we like to work smarter not harder so we're going to look at a more efficient way
that we've come up with ourselves absolutely so stay tuned to the end of the video for that
because you're going to find that really helpful to you so what we're going to do
now is we're going to bring the camera in really nice and close and we're going to discuss some of
those all-important methods that we need so we have got our piece of trunking that we cut Joe
and we are going to look at the two options we're going to be working with
when fitting end caps so here we've got the end that we didn't cut which has pre-drilled
holes ready for the end caps to be fit so we'll go ahead and show how this thing caps fit on this end
so that's just a matter of just sliding that in there and of course it's a nice tight fit
because that's what you want with your electrical enclosure very good nice and flush
very good and that's kind of that's quite an important point that being flush isn't it because
what that means is that we can see there because these are the pre-drilled holes from
the manufacturer this is clearly how the manufacturer wants that end cap to sit on
the end of the trunking there yeah so it's not sticking out too far it's not gone in too much
that is basically spot on alright so one screw and the next screw is going in now
and simple as that so where you've got a situation where you've got
the manufacturer's holes already pre-drilled in there that they've sent out as part of their
trunking that couldn't be easier nice and quick happy days okay so flip this around all
we've got the end that we cut yup which obviously doesn't have any pre-drilled holes we'll show how
to mark them up and drill them fit that end cap that way fantastic so we've got our second end
cap that we're going to fit in the side of the trunking that we've cut so we need to mark this
out all we need to do is hold it i'm going to use a fine pencil for this be much easier
all we need to do is just hold it against the trunking make sure it's completely flush
mark through you can see that pencil mark there do that on both sides
very good so of course you've got to make sure you've got the uh end cap sort of centrally
located on the trunking as well so that you get that mark in the right place very good so we can
drill those out now so put my block of wood back in there we'll put this in the vice ready to drill
and of course you've noticed that Jake's wearing gloves goggles are essential as well
because obviously we're dealing with lots of little tiny bits of
flying metal when we drill through there and if any of that gets under your skin
or into your eyes and that's going to cause you some pretty serious pain and harm so we'll
try and avoid that we don't want that so flip the trunking now so drill out the other hole
interesting to note as well Jake you weren't going full throttle with the drill there no
slower speed which is often better when you're drilling through steel
so you can see that Jake's removed that from the vice now and moved that onto the
bench here but of course it's worth noting Jake that not every electrician on site is fortunate
enough to have a vice on site so what might they end up using instead yeah so they'll probably
just be using a workbench instead if you're not lucky enough to have advice like us absolutely but
all of the same principles apply it's just that slightly different way of holding the the piece in
place so we've got the holes drilled we've drilled that these are M5 screws that we're using here
that's right that come from the manufacturer again it's always worth checking our Atkor trunking here
uses M5 screws but it's always worth checking with the manufacturer what size screws they use
so did we drill that exactly five mil Jake no we drilled it a five pot with a 5.5 bit just to
give us that bit of extra space space it wasn't super tight putting the screw through absolutely
yeah and that means you actually get a more secure connection so that's gone in there beautifully and
you can see on the end there that that plate is sitting there just exactly how we want it to be
which is really really nice happy days just pop the other screw in and that's this phase done
so that is the end cap fitted nice and rapid nice and easy and you can see that that's sitting on
the end there really nice and neatly good stuff right let's move on to talk about the lid okay
Jake so we've got our trunking lid already pre-cut to 700 millimetres long here which is really nice
of course we're not going to show you how to cut the trunking lid in this video because we
showed you how to cut trunking a previous video and of course it's all exactly the
same principles however i noticed that this piece of trunking lid we're working with has
no holes in it at all Jake so what's the story there that's right yes so this piece that we've
caught doesn't have the pre-drilled holes with the turnbuckles in like this piece so we've done that
so we can show where and how we'll fit these ourselves very nice so place the lid on first
so the lids on the trunking so you might think placing these terminals
would probably divide this length by three so we end up with them evenly spaced but that way
we've gotten close to the center we want them closer to the edge so they're more effective
so we'll take this length and we'll divide it by four instead very nice so effectively going to end
up with sort of a a quarter half quarter layout of these these turnbuckles here and that gives us a
measurement of 175 that's quick maths as big Shaq would say very good so 700 divided by 4 is 175 mil
and of course we've got the lengths along there right how we're going to get the distance across
there right now just measure across the trunking and divide by two very nice and that'll give us
our center mark across the lid there very good happy days so that looks great so now we know
exactly where we're going to be drilling that hole through there fantastic so there we go so we've
got two holes marked which is more than enough for this length of trunking that's going to keep that
lid on nice and secure so we'll crack the drill out and we'll get this drilled so we've got our
drill with an 8mm bit in here which is the size we need for these turnbuckles so we'll go ahead
and drill that now and we'll pop that back in the vise there so it's nice and steady for drilling
we've got our lid drilled out ready to put the turnbuckle in now
we've got our flathead screw that just sits in like that
this then just sits on and slides down and then we just need to
push that down just to lock that in place uh so that just holds it and stops it from
stepping out again very nice okay repeat the process for the other one and we're good to go
so now they're both in we can set the lid back pop it back on the trunk in secure that in place
excellent and that's our next piece of trunking lid complete good work
okay then Jake so we've seen the standard way of fitting end caps and trunking lid and you'll
be able to do that for any manufacturer's trunking and what we're going to do now is
we're going to give full credit to a friend of the show what are we going to look at next
yeah so this wasn't fully our idea so this is um we've got this from Eddie at Pegasus we've
pinched his idea which he did for another brand of trunking he created a template to drill out the
turnbuckles and the holes for the end caps and we've created one here for ours so this is just
a piece of trunking lid and we've pre-drilled a hole in the right position so that when you
just pop it on the end of the trunking there and line it up with the edge yeah all you've got to
do is either mark up or drill straight through that hole and that's your position for your end
cap there that's brilliant we need an end cap on this end hold that flush with the end of the
trunking and drill straight through oh that's brilliant yeah that's really clever love that
and what's the other purpose of this so there's some big holes in the middle there yep so that'll
do the turnbuckles for our lid so this will work for the 50 by 50 and the 100 by 50 as
well so for example if we're doing the 50 by 50 trunking yep so we'll just have a look at
that hold that in place so again you can see there that that turn buckle in the middle
is just nicely seated when you put our template on the edge there that's fantastic so again if you're
doing loads and loads of these then actually that's going to save you loads of time because
you don't need to keep measuring up with the tape measure you can just pop the template on mark the
holes or drill a hole straight through there and you're ready to go so there we go in this video
we've looked at how to install trunking lid and also those end caps in a really neat fashion but
also in a really accurate way because obviously that's important for the final look but also the
continued operation of our trunking systems where are we going to go next in the series Jake so
next we'll take a look at fitting some manually pre-manufactured accessories some flat internal
external analytics etc and then we're actually going to manufacture some of those ourselves
as well oh so we're going to do a bit of metal munching oh yeah excellent we look forward to that
but as always we want to hear from you what are your thoughts what are your questions
on this subject have you maybe seen something we've done in this video and think you wouldn't
do it that way have you got any top tips or top tools that you would use on your trunking
installation whatever the thoughts are whatever those questions are please leave them in the
comments section below and Jake will be sure to get back to all of those for you but as always
all that remains say is thank you very much for watching serious you keep taking my line