today we're going to show you how to make this with Marco's steel wire cable tray by Atkore
okay so we're looking at basket and we've been playing around with this today well
exclusively probably me well you've been checking out a few of the part numbers for some of the
bits we've got down here and i'd like to ask the question why are we still using cable tray when
this stuff's brilliant you're right gary you look like you've had a lot of fun yeah you're right i
delved into the part numbers and this range is immense and we're only going to touch on elements
of it today to get you into the basics because yeah you're right most people think of cable
train that's armored cable on there and basket has probably data cables and the lighter side of the
electrical industry but let me tell you this stuff is rock solid and really robust and yeah it's
ideal for all sorts of cables and phenomenally easy to fabricate i'm going to show you some of
the fabrications that i've made out down here but i started off with just just cutting it in half
and we didn't get it quite right to start with did we we had to play around with it but when
we got the technique believe it or not there was a technique it was a doddle shall we see it yeah
to say I've had some fun today just cutting and fabricating this cable basket with these miniature
bolt croppers as you can imagine hey these tiny little fellas okay it's been great fun so all we're going
to do in this one is i'm just going to cut this cable tray in half it's exactly the same technique
for all the fabrication cuts i've made in videos we're going to see in a minute so here we go so
open them up put it into position and you want to keep it in line we're going to cut the back first
i've got most of the pieces on the floor today it's going to be a bit more of a challenge on a
table but that stays in line and we talked about 45 degrees now it's not 45 degrees that way gordon
it's actually laying back 45 degrees you don't want the straight head you might naturally think
you want a straight edge down there but you don't you want the beveled edge back absolutely so
blades in line with the back piece at 45 degrees cut it and it makes a slightly different sound
when you get it perfect and that one was perfect i don't suggest doing it more perfect and again with
the blade yeah you're in line there yeah in line you're happy with that and I've got the 45
oh can we it on the other wait a minute absolutely i've had a great day so again
so it's just a case on a table it's a little bit more difficult so we're there that was perfect
again lean it back okay so i've only gone to the side for us if anyone's got any top tips on what
you do with these leftover parts then please put them in the comments below on that and
see the fun of that take this one out that's the sound you want that's the sound you want
pop over christmas album coming out now the sound of metal crunching love it first one in the queue
oh just gonna be immensely disappointed when i stop doing this just rescue that last bit put
it around there happy days nice clean cut edges back to where you want to be yeah if you don't
get those the right length you obviously can't use the accessories that we'll look at next okay
absolutely and you can see how much fun I've had but how many of them I've collected up
well that looked fun Gary i'm not surprised i couldn't wrestle these off you all day
but you know really interesting you can do all this fabrication on site and what we're going to
look at now is how we fabricate and join different components with these and that collection of metal
components in front of you there absolutely all the sizes of cable basket from 50mm to 600 mm get
fabricated with those bolt croppers which makes it great for and picking them up off the floor when
you've cut them away is also satisfying let's look maybe next to how we joined two lengths together
to see how easy that is that's how easy that one is the first connecting method we're going
to use the quick click system just give me that part number gordon oh catchy as ever it's the MCJFC
right by the time you've got that done i've almost got the first one fitted these come already
attached to each length of basket what's the thing to be on that gordon okay well they just basically
click together with no tools but they are removable from the actual basket itself on some
systems they are actually attached so you can't remove them if you were to shorten the basket okay
so nice close-up shot here just clicking it and look how easy that is we've got another method of
joining them together here gordon with the hook coupler just give me that part number please oh
it's another one it's another m it's MCHC-S all right again look how simple this is bottom
section in first click the top into place let's see it again hook underneath the bottom bar click
onto the top there you go we've joined it together let's have a little bit of a closer look just so
it wasn't no uh mystery to it so underneath first click up there gun yeah that's a very secure
fixing that's got there so let's have a look at a third method of joining the basket together this
is the fast fix side coupler give us that part number gordon well guess what it starts with gary
is it an m by any chance it is it's MCSSC okay doesn't take away from the fact they're really
quick to fix and get a really secure fixing so watch again so we slide it through okay and i've
got to put some pressure on here just push it into place take my posi drive screwdriver just make a
small turn turn into position it's locked tightly together have a closer look now gordon yeah again
looks like a very firm fixing yeah and very fast which is good so watch me now i'll just push it
back this time on the screwdriver and just make that turn turn it locked into position really good
the quick click system there the one that comes already on the actual lengths of basket now gordon
was feedback from electricians they wanted the the system on here and it to be able to
be used wherever you cut it in the length just pop them off move it down into the appropriate
position and make that joint okay yes on some systems yeah that's sort of almost
welded onto the tray so if you're cutting the wrong place you've lost your coupler
you have yeah but what has really impressed me is actually for such a simple operation how robust
that is i mean that is not coming apart unless you wanted to get it apart which i guess that's easier
yeah i can't believe this has been kept secret from us for so long somebody's been hiding it
away from us so we've so we've cut it we've joined it together so of course then you're on site and
you've got to fabricate 90 degrees and things like that we had a little go a few of them so
we're not going to go through all of them but we tackled some of the fabrication which we'll show
you now so i'm going to fabricate now a 90 degree bend i've chopped out the sections i need to do
just fold it in and again this is going to be super simple i'm just going to take a bolt and
plate arrangement in order to clasp it into position and i'm going to use my second tool
of the day in a minute i'll use the socket set by the side of it in order to hold that into position
you want to partner with that nut and bolt arrangement here does it start with an m and a c
that's the MCCA okay so we can just tighten that up okay in order that we've got a 90 degree so
fun with the bolt croppers followed by that bolt arrangement in order to hold it
so i'm going to make you another 90 degree bend i'm going to take it then gordon to another level
i'm going to use the quick lock smalls for these what's their part number oh that's the MCQLS
gary i'm still doing a large version okay guess what the partners are there
don't surprise me the MCQL okay joking aside again look at this as we're having a little bit of joke
look at it just clips together easy pop it in there bang that's 90. i've already got it to 90.
fabricated the trade to start with by removing the sections i'm at 90. but i'm going to take it as i
said another level gordon what's going on where are you off to oh well you wait and see so look
in we go clip yeah that's good so one more to go so we've now got it kicked off so if i put
one more in you can see that i'll become around a full 180 degrees by just simply cutting out
using the bolt croppers and then using those uh connectors in order to connect it look at that
easy simple we love it nice close-up one for you no tricks to this gordon okay so the small bracket
is used on trays between 100 and 200 millimeter obviously the larger one is for the larger trays
i think you made that look almost too easy gary bolt croppers take out a few sections fold it
in as as needed yeah wow and there's loads of other variants you can do isn't it you can have
it obviously if you have wider tray you can reduce the reduce the width you can do uh intersections
or two pieces except pieces yeah in different heights and yeah offsets yeah everything you can
we've done one here all we've done here with this section whoa whoa whoa whoa are you gonna
go just plain clips of this one i'll move some bits out of the way for you though
come on in you come i'll have to do it i'll step to one side look at that that is
so we'd have a piece of string piece of strut to support and we'll show you in a minute how easy
it is to fit into the uni strut as well so we've got a nice slow bend there in order to bring our
cables up a location fantastic and all we did use the bolt croppers to remove a couple of sections
so yeah you're thinking about that you don't need to buy any
prefabricated joints yeah and obviously a lot of sites don't like you obviously doing
a fabrication this isn't really on-site fabrication as it's just clopping out bits of wire
yeah no sparks created here so yeah brilliant so i said they're fixing it to uni strut wait for it
quick easy fast you'll see it now so let's attach our cable basket now to uni strut using
our fast fix universal strut clip gordon give us the part number okay it's the mc
surprise surprise MCFUSC wow by the time you've got that i've already fitted it clips
in and as always it's either got fast or quick in it and they're both correct in every terms
bang done okay then gordon give me some of those technical features you'd love to give us what
type of finish does it come in see i'm not here just for the part number so this is an electro
zinc finish suitable for interior applications where possibly haven't got a corrosive atmosphere
it does come in hot dip galvanized similar as you would find on cable trays pre-galvanized or
a powder coat finish options as well but they're all to special order the depths of it comes in 30
mil it comes in 55 and 106 mil depth and the maximum width i think i said earlier was 600
mil which is massive isn't it Gordon so again very similar to what you'd expect on cable tray
but you say we've only touched the surface of the range there's loads more widgets you can do
all sorts of things with you know for suspended hangings there's a lid you can get to go on top
yeah loads of options we can't believe it isn't being used more so we always want your feedback
are you currently moved away from tray and only fit basket is this the type of basket you fit or
are you thinking about fitting it in the future is this range from ATKORE your go-to basket range
please leave those comments below and we're going to try and get back to as many as we can we've had
a blast today and if you've got any more art forms you've made with it then yeah send us a
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