in this video we're going to continue on a series of videos looking at rewiring our industrial unit
here at line side studios this video we're going to look at the marco steel-wire cable tray from
Atkore which steve's been installing there are other videos that are interested within this
series i recommend you check those out if you haven't already i'll leave a link for those in
the description we've looked at the Schneider Acti 9 isobar p distribution board that Eddie installed
for us as well as the salamander trunking that we used here at lineside studios but let's just see
what steve's been up to using this cable basket system from Atkore so we're gonna start off with
a bit of fabrication that's what's brilliant about this steel wire cable tray from Atkore
i'm gonna call it basket probably for the rest of the presentation is it's so easy to fabricate and
we're going to make an external 90 degree bend first and a bit later on we'll make a flat 90.
just a case of removing the sections out of the side of the tray that are appropriate before
bending it again i have done another video i'll leave it in the description where i went through
almost a one-to-one tutorial how best to cut the cable basket so once we've got the sections cut
out just a simple case and this goes over your knee of folding that 90 degree bend and making it
as smooth or as tight as you need it in order to get it into the position in which you're working
so that's our 90 degree bend made when we offer it up into position we can obviously pull it a
little bit tighter or we could release it out a little bit so it's in the correct place that was
really simple that wasn't it wasn't a hard task in order to perform that bend so we'll be up in
our lifter to see if it's in the appropriate position so we'll drop it in before we make
another fabrication this time of a flat 90 again taking out the side sections as required as well
as the back sections in the appropriate positions i'm going to pull it together to make a flat 90.
we're gonna need to use our quick lock clips in order to hold it into position so as i pull it
round we'll see the clips come in those clips will hold the basket into place ever so easy to slip
in there's one and just uh do the second one it comes flying into shot and we can pull that into
position as well and that will be got our flat 90 degree bend finished in our cable basket now that
was really simple next we'll look at securing the cable basket down so first of all we're going to
use a clamp to hold it in place we've got a spring nut and a bolt so simply put the spring nut into
our strut before we actually clamp down on top of the cable basket to hold it into position so
it goes we can adjust to the suit there is a laser level on the the edge in order that we can get it
straight so we can move it around to suit so we're in the appropriate position before we lock it down
so we tighten that down that's our cable basket held into place let's have another look at it
from different angle there it is securely held into position but there is other methods that
we can use we can use the fastfix universal strut clip steve liked this one probably the
most so just push it into position and then just turn it and it'll hold the cable tray
or basket into place there we go that was easy again super secure you see it again
so offer it into the strut just simply then just make that half turn and that's it held into
position that's super simple as well next steve's going to join a couple of lengths of cable basket
together so just slide it into position and then he's going to use the hook coupler again a very
simple task in order to join them together so if we look at the second one get a really good shot
of this just clips on the top and then pop there they are they're joined together two lengths of
cable basket joined it's gone and seen some of the install now so there's our nice flat 90 that we've
got in so it just needs securing into position so we'll just pop those clips in and then we'll go
on and just check that we've got it nice and level in relationship to that laser line as we look down
looks pretty good to me again easy to adjust so just slid it along and then
fasten it into position we've got another 90 degree at the other end secured simple process
as we see earlier on in the presentation as we step back and now look at long straight runs
i was really interested in seeing the next bit fitted this is the flexi conduit plate
so you get a plate that can accommodate the 20 the 22 the 25 and 32 mil glands on flexicon so you can
come off your cable basket and obviously drop down to something else so let's pop the plate in
and then we'll introduce a flexible conduit from it so that's the plate in just simple case of
folding the edges over that's held securely in place several different holes you can fit into
there for the glands and next you can offer it with flexicon so a larger flexicon or as a step
back we've attached a slightly smaller one now so that can come down and we can perhaps use it
to wire our data connection into our time clocks I'd like to thank Steve for allowing us to record
him installing the Marco steel wire cable tray from Atkore were you as surprised as i was at
At the end of that presentation you see it behind me here that you can connect a Flexicon to a basket
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