today we're going to have a look at the quick fix glands from Hylec
so in front of me here I've got some Hylec closures suitably IP-rated to IP65 IP66 I'm going
to take the front cover off the enclosure probably the next thing i'm going to do is start drilling
holes into the actual enclosure itself what issues does that cause this Gordon well if you
drill a hole you're going to have to fill it up with something and that's normally a cable blend
okay and we said their quick fix and they're going to return the IP rating let's have a demonstration
you fit in one going well first let's have a look at the gland itself so this is our quick fit gland
the big difference between that and a normal gland you'd expect to see on the normal gland
this threaded barrel here where you put a lock ring yeah so this doesn't have a lock ring okay
so that can help you out in a few situations but First let's have a look at how this mechanism
works you'll see the slightly longer side there and a shorter side yes and then obviously this uh
this chamfered edge yeah where would normally be a circle okay so this quick fix gland is going to go
into the 20 mil hole you've already prepared for us push that in you'll see there's the longer side
right okay yep tilt into place pull back right and then tighten up with our is that an anti-clockwise
direction so it is yeah i'm going anti-clockwise on the lock ring okay and i'm tightening up
the gasket seal onto the enclosure and that gasket seal will return the ip right into of the gland
please yeah so this is an ip68 gland right but the key bit in there's lots of clans that say
their ip68 the important thing is making sure you have a gasket sealed between the enclosure and the
gland itself because that's often the weak point and that will maintain the ip rating for us then
okay so that's a 20 ml gland they're coming in any other sizes yes you can get 16 and 25 millimeters
in the range and they're grey in color any other colors you can have black as well all right okay
so black black or grey glands the conductors that we can fit into them can you give me the
diameter of the cake okay so the 16 millimeters you can go for between 5 and 10 millimeter
outside diameter of cable right 20 it's 8 to 13 and on the 25 11 to 17. all right okay so
we said they're quick fix glands yeah can you install the 25mm one and perhaps show
me how I would remove it, yeah well I'll show you two things with it first because obviously
you don't need to be behind it to fit the gland which can come in uh we've seen this a lot in EV
charging closures right we're going to bring the cable from behind into a box right so this you
know when you really if you're fitting that onto a wall mount and this is sticking behind the box
yeah you're going to have to put a big hole in the wall which is obviously can be a challenge and
most importantly you can't get behind it to tighten the clamp yeah okay so we see a lot
of people actually fit them the other way around so this is a bit of a top tip then
so if this was an ev charging point we can fit it in reverse and still tighten it up
exactly so again long side in yep so if i push that through you'll see the long side gone through
yeah in and back and then i'm going to do my anti-clockwise turning right yeah
and then we can just bring our cable through through the wall so it'll come through an NYY
cable with a data cable combined we see a lot in EV charging for the current transformer okay so
they're coming through nicely there and then you can just tighten them off into not this enclosure
necessarily but into something like an ev charging point yeah another strong feature i would suggest
of that so we could fit it either way around but we we said that obviously it's quick fix now can
you take it off for me how easy they are to remove it can do yeah if you did want to move it we've
featured a similar gland on the channel before but what people didn't like was you had to get behind
it and fit a tool to remove it yeah remember yes so you're saying no tool required no tool required
so again if i if i'm tightening our lock ring for this time turn it clockwise on the inside
yeah that's just a case of pull out and then he can remove that was really easy wasn't it um
i like it yeah i'm getting mixed up between me clockwise and because remember when you're
tightening the cable that bit still goes clockwise in order to tighten up now the thickness of the
actual material here is also important when selecting your gland can just remind me the
thicknesses that these glands will take whether it be 16 20 or 25 yeah so this will work between
a one and four millimeter material thickness on the 16 and 20 millimeter gland okay one and 2.5
millimeter on the 25 millimeter gland right okay looking at the glands themselves what temperature
range would they work with this will make from -20 very cold up to 100 degrees c yeah so very hot
boiling water temperature wouldn't say we're going to be working that in here but that is a huge
temperature range and it'll keep its ip rating of ip68 within that range yes so the polyimide
plastic so yeah so good for lots of industrial applications we also found a sneaky way of using
them where we come up with a problem in the workshop didn't we we've got another box here
to show that we well we couldn't fit a glander yeah we did so we've been doing a lot of videos
recently on ny cable right okay and possibly in an industrial environment you might be gonna fit some
metal clad accessories yes absolutely so you're not using an armoured cable here you don't need
those steel wired armoured but found a problem here when we looked at this uh back box here
you can see the earth tab in there yeah i can't see any problems okay well try and bring through
your conventional glands yeah no worries and then try and get the lock ring on well you can't ah
right the earth terminal itself is blocking the ability to put it on so you're telling me that in
this case you might not need an ip rated uh gland but it will save you obviously the problem you've
just created using it more for strain relief yep but again so there's our quick fix gland push in
pull back and then look at it wise and turn that up yeah because it's a lot you
know it's a lot shallower isn't it yeah and you're not taking space up inside the box
where normally yeah you might have quite a significant threaded barrel within your lock ring
and we just stumbled across that didn't we yeah i mean it moved like wow it's even solved that
problem for us by the actual depth of it we think these glands are fantastic
maintaining that ip rating installing them quick yeah easy to remove no tools required
as we've seen in previous glands of a similar construction on the channel but as always
we're interested in your comments have you fitted this type of glands before from Hylec
are you thinking of fitting them in the future we'd love to hear your comments which glands are
you currently using please leave them below and we'll try and get back to as many as we can you