Once you've got a feel for the tool its not that big a deal, use impact drivers to run bolts down onto plastic parts, haven't broken one yet. Probably shouldn't have said that.
It's amazing how much control you can have with an impact driver! It's not actually that easy though... saying that I'd still opt for a screw driver when it comes to a TV lol
Cramp in your fingers is a sign of dehydration!! I struggled with it for a long time but now something so simple as drinking more water throughout the day and I no longer suffer with it!
It's veto pro pac tech Xl, had mine for 8 years and still going strong with no signs of wear, extremely well put together, makes the CK one's look like toy bags. I paid £180 for mine so not cheap, but worth it.
Maybe rent a secure storage unit. But if that’s too much hassle just give it to the wholesalers and let them put a note on it to go for free. Another spark might pick it up for a few odd jobs. Instead of throwing it away for complete waste
Tom I would either donate it to a college as already mentioned or rent a £10 a month storage unit and weigh it all in at the scrap yard once per year. Give your staff a nice Christmas bonus with it :)
If the client paid for the cable, then it's their property, imo. But if they don't want it then it goes in the house cellar here on top of the existing mountain of SWA there that hardly ever gets used. One day I'll weigh the lot of it (and then i'll need it).
Wholesalers in NZ are happy to supply a roll of cable and credit what you return. Tossing it seems a huge waste, but also understand storage cost would not be economical. There's another reason to grow, because eventually, it will pay to have some sort of office and storage. Cheers, David.
Not sure what you're doing differently but lately I've noticed a real change in your videos. They seem to be almost professional style but still being able to relate as a genuine guy who loves his job. Nice one T man! You can really see you're putting in so much effort. Why not do a behind the scenes video... what does Laura do... how does the camera man work etc
Where we work... small towns, we have gardens. My colleague's shed is a veritable loveliness of handy offcuts of armoured. The T&E gets carried on the van, handy for links. Other less usual sized cable, or weird types, gets scrapped for the copper. (although 10" lengths of 25mm meter tail did come in handy on a job the other day where space was cramped.
Have a look at a Veto Pro PAC and see what you think. I got the Tech XL. Cringed when I saw the price but definitely worth it. Made life a lot easier...
With my off cuts or cable waste, i collect it all and when i get spare time i strip it to the cores and weigh it in, its extra cash at the end of the day and helps towards Christmas with family etc..
Really liked the video guys. But Come one a 2.5 3c swa takes ages with a hacksaw... 30 seconds done and then you use a hacksaw for other stuff. Good luck to you on a 240mm 4c!
I doubt if that would be economically viable, as you'd need to have a unit (let's call it the scrap bin) and drive there regularly to store your stuff, just in case you need one of your scrap bits. Let's say he has a use for this 10m 3 core 4mm armoured cable. To buy new would cost 30 pounds online (first hit I could find), so that would be the maximum savings for this one item. Every minute he spends extra driving to the scrap bin would eat into those 30 pounds, so any savings would be gone if it takes somewhere between 30 minutes and an hour extra to go to the scrap bin after work and store it, and then for the next job to go to the scrap bin before work and retrieve it. With careful planning and minimal disruptions it might not take that much extra time per item stored, especially if it saves a trip to the store (but I wonder how often that would be the case), but it still eats away at the potential savings per item. Then all those savings need to also pay for the unit (estimated at 30 to 50 pounds per week, depending on the size), so you'd need to have a use for those scraps multiple times a week to make it break even.
Keeping scrap cable is not on any level a money maker, I break even at best.i wait untill I've 25-30 bags stored (10kg each), this collecting, bagging and storing takes a good few hours in itself, then take to knackers yard, maybe 3 hrs loading /driving/waiting around/unloading to get back £220-£250 (which technically has to be declared). I get a sense of 'saving the planet' about me tho,i guess that sense of wellbeing makes it all worthwhile.
We get the apprentices to strip it down to bare copper and at the end of the year we weigh it in and get them tools to add to their collection and if we have enough it goes towards the first few rounds of the Christmas do.
Re storage do you not have a lock up that you can access 24/7? I know other sparks use this and we have space at our wholesalers where we can store bits and pieces. I’m sure you can get a storage unit close to you home for those off cuts and bits and bobs etc
Actually its a product called Innerclean, it's an interior quick detailer. Feel free to pop in and try it for yourself, wouldn't recommend it on wheels though ;)
Get one of them outdoor lockup storage units that people put lawnmowers etc in, only about 2mtr long by 1.5m high and 1m deep, put a lock and clasp on it, that's what I do, I also have a shed.. But space is money in London so it's prob got a flat or bedsit where a bin would go 🤑😂
Scrap yard for all your excess cable. Binning it is counter productive and on mass scale and over time will only make copper more expensive. Poor man's gold... Capitalise!
Next time your down at the merchants, offer another spark your left overs in return for things like screws, clips, small bits and bobs which cost you more time in driving and you always seem to be short of. Another spark might just need a bit of armoured, flex, conduit and not have to end up with a full reel. Everyone’s a winner. Just a thought. Great vid.
I've been looking for a good technician's bag for a while, so I looked up Velocity when you showed your bag. They do look great but such a shame they don't make one with wheels.
I mount TVs all the time, the biggest one I have mounted was a 90 inch. As for the leftover Cable I hold onto it for two weeks then recycle it if I don't end up using it.
Across the pond renting a storage unit isn't all that much money, get a 10x10 or 10x20 outdoor unit and store all that extra wire, and bulk supplies. Not sure if you guys have similar self storage facilities over there.
What does a storage unit go for these days in London? I rent a nice 10x10 unit in an dry temperature controlled facility for only $134 a month. This is in a Washington State.
I’m a second year electrical apprentice. I always ask for the scrap wire at the end of a job so I can strip it (if it’s big enough) and take it to my local scrap yard. Makes up for being poor most of the time. I do have lots of extra storage space at my house though unlike you.
If you saved up all your off cuts of cable in your spare room for 1 year them took it all to the scrap yard in one go then took your bride on holiday with the money she wouldnt mind then lol
For your storage issues, Do you have a garden then if so, how about getting a small lean-to shed or something like that then you can store cabling and other odds and sods.
yep i did work experience with a sparky and he wanted to cut the insulation on live 3 phase to install a breaker i asked if there was anything attached to the boards and it turned out there was an office upstairs which i wasn't aware of they lost all their info for the day a was placed with another sparky (i wasn't prepared to scrape him off the walls when he slipped the stanley across the 3 phase)
Although I am not a spark, We that do networking and telephony also have cable excess issues however my loving wife says keep it you might be able to use it somewhere, warm regards from Port Elizabeth, South Africa
I'm a third of the way in. Think I could have used it a a school bag on non pe days. I cringe at the stock splat sound effects. Now to continue watching the video.
A hacksaw takes one minute to strip a armoured cable.... If you ever worked on a proper site where you have to drag a heavy toolbag all over.... You would know why those gimmicky tools never go mainstream. A proper electrician uses a hacksaw for everything..... because he can.
The SWA was doing like you get bit more than needed chuck the odd bit left in scrap ,but now many of our suppliers let use take a drum as most SWA are meter marked take back what I don't use charged for what I had. Use sortimo first class kit I found. I take it you not looked at there accessories catalogue, the holes in roof rack and internal racking holes is for there lashing straps,which lock into them.
The tool bag looks good however a smaller version would be better I cant imagine how heavy it would be when loaded out with tools Perhaps you could just use it for your holidays
single phase lift? if you have on site 3 phase then use it. single phase motors on hydrolic pumps just dont last. when i first started my gararge i had a single phase 2 post ramp and was forever changing the motor luckly there was a place next door who refirb motors. when i got a 3phase ramp 7 years ago its never faild
Storage unit ? Here in France they don't cost all that much, and some of them even allow you to put shelves in, if there aren't already ! Most of the time, it's cheaper than renting an extra garage, and it's WAY more secure, because there's someone surveying the thing 24/7.
I have a lockup for tools and spare materials. In your position id work out over a few months the amount of money in spare material your throwing and see if it is ecenomic to rent some storage.
Lucky enough to have storage with a log of what's in so if i need the 10m of armourd for a shed supply or whatever I know it's in and I can supply the customer straight from storage , any left over materials from a job will either be deducted from invoice or taken in the waste disposal terms
Would it be worth buying a large van, keep it legal but park it somewhere near you just for storage? There’s always the option to rent a lockup if there’s any near you that’s reasonably priced.
Give your leftover cable Thomas to your local college 🙌. Gaz 😁👍
Leave the spare armoured with the customer, if he ever wants another socket etc, it’s there. I assume he’s already paid for it within your price.
I actually cringed when that impact driver went into the back of the tV
Me too! What on earth was he thinking???
Finn Brayden it was on a torque setting no damage would have come to that, I do it all the time
Once you've got a feel for the tool its not that big a deal, use impact drivers to run bolts down onto plastic parts, haven't broken one yet. Probably shouldn't have said that.
It's amazing how much control you can have with an impact driver! It's not actually that easy though... saying that I'd still opt for a screw driver when it comes to a TV lol
Fucking shut up fin you have no clue
How about donating the excess material to a college?
Yes, if he actually bins it... definitely a good idea
Yes, or Habitat For Humanity. Either they'll use it or sell it in their thrift stores.
@@tncorgi92 What?
haha
Cramp in your fingers is a sign of dehydration!! I struggled with it for a long time but now something so simple as drinking more water throughout the day and I no longer suffer with it!
You can offer your off cuts back to CEF and they'll buy it back.
Nice tip, thanks!
It just works. Never heard that phrase delivered before with such enthusiasm. Another entertaining video, thanks!
Excellent videos love them good work dont need to watch all of it just like it at first then watch
I cannot throw anything like that away, I have to keep it for that one job I know I will use it on
Dean Griffin bet you’ve got a shed piled full of stuff like that! 😂
And then the moment you need it... is 1 week after you give up and throw it away.
Sell your excess cable for scrap metal instead of junking it.
I have the same bag and they are absolutely massive bags. You can’t tell how big they are in videos and pictures.
What to do with it....... persuade the customer they need a second socket nearby the main box :D
Another good insight this guys class act
Nice segment with music and no commentary. Great vlog 👌
Maybe look into buying a small enclosed trailer? Use it when you need it for extra tools, storage, larger jobs, transporting larger appliances, etc.
It's veto pro pac tech Xl, had mine for 8 years and still going strong with no signs of wear, extremely well put together, makes the CK one's look like toy bags. I paid £180 for mine so not cheap, but worth it.
Maybe rent a secure storage unit. But if that’s too much hassle just give it to the wholesalers and let them put a note on it to go for free. Another spark might pick it up for a few odd jobs. Instead of throwing it away for complete waste
EverythingRick used the freebie tins I front of decorators merchants a bit, always recommend it to people who want a cheep job or diyers
Indeed, we work in a small town. 10m is often the route from the board to the hot tub!
Nice job again
That musical montage nearly halfway through was so tight.
Storage unit or leave it with the customer if they want it. They’ve paid for it after all
Vans looking professional Tom .
Vans are mint 👌👌👌
Tom I would either donate it to a college as already mentioned or rent a £10 a month storage unit and weigh it all in at the scrap yard once per year. Give your staff a nice Christmas bonus with it :)
Good job done well done both of you and vans are ace to.
If the client paid for the cable, then it's their property, imo. But if they don't want it then it goes in the house cellar here on top of the existing mountain of SWA there that hardly ever gets used. One day I'll weigh the lot of it (and then i'll need it).
Those Milenco Locks at 5:45! The only security lock to come with a neat little notch for a small crow-bar KWOL-ITY!
Leave it at the customer where you installed it.
You've done a great job looks neat, it gives them a reason to let you install another socket.
Wholesalers in NZ are happy to supply a roll of cable and credit what you return. Tossing it seems a huge waste, but also understand storage cost would not be economical. There's another reason to grow, because eventually, it will pay to have some sort of office and storage. Cheers, David.
Not sure what you're doing differently but lately I've noticed a real change in your videos. They seem to be almost professional style but still being able to relate as a genuine guy who loves his job.
Nice one T man!
You can really see you're putting in so much effort.
Why not do a behind the scenes video... what does Laura do... how does the camera man work etc
tormenting360 couldn’t agree more
He has got a camera man
Cheers mate! Appreciate the feedback! I'll have a think about behind the scenes. Thumbs up!
Where we work... small towns, we have gardens. My colleague's shed is a veritable loveliness of handy offcuts of armoured. The T&E gets carried on the van, handy for links. Other less usual sized cable, or weird types, gets scrapped for the copper. (although 10" lengths of 25mm meter tail did come in handy on a job the other day where space was cramped.
What an amazing van👍🏻
Veto Pro Pac bags are the best! - Expensive but great quality. 🙌
I'm looking for a new toolbag and was torn between Velocity and Veto but Velocity looks a bit chunky which is what I'm trying to gey away from.
Those mid rise car ramps are brilliant,use mine all the time 👍16A type c breaker
Anthony, do they then lock in position, in case of power fail?
Sean Kelly yes they do brilliant bit of kit , an air feed releases the interlocks
Fucking hell, just came back to this channel after about a year or so! Used to get afew thousands views! Now tens of thousands!! Well done mate!
Welcome back to the channel, mate!
Have a look at a Veto Pro PAC and see what you think. I got the Tech XL. Cringed when I saw the price but definitely worth it. Made life a lot easier...
I paid £180 for my tech Xl about 8 years ago and still going strong
With my off cuts or cable waste, i collect it all and when i get spare time i strip it to the cores and weigh it in, its extra cash at the end of the day and helps towards Christmas with family etc..
Love the plate on that S2000!
Really liked the video guys. But Come one a 2.5 3c swa takes ages with a hacksaw...
30 seconds done and then you use a hacksaw for other stuff. Good luck to you on a 240mm 4c!
Vans looking very professional Tom. Great investment to your company. Those dead bolts are an absolute must. Keep vids coming pal 👍🏻👍🏻
Store your spare tools/materials in a storage unit
You beat me to it! I thought he had a unit already? Maybe that was somebody else. It's a crime to throw cable like that away.
I doubt if that would be economically viable, as you'd need to have a unit (let's call it the scrap bin) and drive there regularly to store your stuff, just in case you need one of your scrap bits. Let's say he has a use for this 10m 3 core 4mm armoured cable. To buy new would cost 30 pounds online (first hit I could find), so that would be the maximum savings for this one item. Every minute he spends extra driving to the scrap bin would eat into those 30 pounds, so any savings would be gone if it takes somewhere between 30 minutes and an hour extra to go to the scrap bin after work and store it, and then for the next job to go to the scrap bin before work and retrieve it. With careful planning and minimal disruptions it might not take that much extra time per item stored, especially if it saves a trip to the store (but I wonder how often that would be the case), but it still eats away at the potential savings per item. Then all those savings need to also pay for the unit (estimated at 30 to 50 pounds per week, depending on the size), so you'd need to have a use for those scraps multiple times a week to make it break even.
Keeping scrap cable is not on any level a money maker, I break even at best.i wait untill I've 25-30 bags stored (10kg each), this collecting, bagging and storing takes a good few hours in itself, then take to knackers yard, maybe 3 hrs loading /driving/waiting around/unloading to get back £220-£250 (which technically has to be declared).
I get a sense of 'saving the planet' about me tho,i guess that sense of wellbeing makes it all worthwhile.
Never seen a man hold a piece of fried chicken for so long without eating it lol
That's alright mate. I can gulp down a McDonald's milkshake in under 5 seconds though ...
Seeing Tom get excited about a tool bag and van makes me feel dead inside
It just works
I used to keep everything, as I have always believed it will come in handy for something on another job!
I use it for gardening sheds and gardening lighting
Nice one
Great video Thomas! 😄
The zips on the velocity bags are torture when loaded and the weight wow.........also expensive but the facom range is mint
Yep the worst £145 you ever spent
We get the apprentices to strip it down to bare copper and at the end of the year we weigh it in and get them tools to add to their collection and if we have enough it goes towards the first few rounds of the Christmas do.
Re storage do you not have a lock up that you can access 24/7? I know other sparks use this and we have space at our wholesalers where we can store bits and pieces. I’m sure you can get a storage unit close to you home for those off cuts and bits and bobs etc
One of the best sparkies on UA-cam but the electrical work content lacking a little - sorry !!
That moment the guy is cleaning the van radio with wheel cleaner in his hand 🖐 😂😂😂😂
Actually its a product called Innerclean, it's an interior quick detailer. Feel free to pop in and try it for yourself, wouldn't recommend it on wheels though ;)
Get one of them outdoor lockup storage units that people put lawnmowers etc in, only about 2mtr long by 1.5m high and 1m deep, put a lock and clasp on it, that's what I do, I also have a shed.. But space is money in London so it's prob got a flat or bedsit where a bin would go 🤑😂
Get a room at self storage near you also can lock away expensive materials and tools when not required
Scrap yard for all your excess cable. Binning it is counter productive and on mass scale and over time will only make copper more expensive. Poor man's gold... Capitalise!
Good luck on your new shop/office!
bought one of them ck armour slice. Haven't used it yet.
Tom your vids are great I love then keep up the good work also don't throw extra cable away take it to a scrap yard and get some extra money
Next time your down at the merchants, offer another spark your left overs in return for things like screws, clips, small bits and bobs which cost you more time in driving and you always seem to be short of. Another spark might just need a bit of armoured, flex, conduit and not have to end up with a full reel. Everyone’s a winner. Just a thought. Great vid.
jokari secura no27 slice no need for stanley knife and its so much quicker can also strip the inner off with it and its safer
Doing very well for yourself 💪
Put it on eBay or Gumtree. Set as local collection to save you faffing with postage.
We rent a garage for our bits and we keep a big tat bag and weigh it in when it's full. Can't believe you threw that cable away lol
When that music kicked in as you were putting the tele up I feared the worst!
I've been looking for a good technician's bag for a while, so I looked up Velocity when you showed your bag. They do look great but such a shame they don't make one with wheels.
Veto Pro-Pac! 😂
I mount TVs all the time, the biggest one I have mounted was a 90 inch.
As for the leftover Cable I hold onto it for two weeks then recycle it if I don't end up using it.
hey tom, how does it work with the camera man? I'm guessing he's not a full employee but does get paid somewhat? cheers.
He’s back 🥰
Across the pond renting a storage unit isn't all that much money, get a 10x10 or 10x20 outdoor unit and store all that extra wire, and bulk supplies. Not sure if you guys have similar self storage facilities over there.
always scrap left over cable! better than throwing money away
What does a storage unit go for these days in London? I rent a nice 10x10 unit in an dry temperature controlled facility for only $134 a month. This is in a Washington State.
That S200 Though
Also, think you need a new moto :D "it just... works" haha
I’m lucky enough to have a small lockup. Store everything in there, then have 3 weigh ins a year
I’ve got a storage unit. I keep the off cuts there, if not used by the end of the year goes to scrap.. then I need it the following week lol
I’m a second year electrical apprentice. I always ask for the scrap wire at the end of a job so I can strip it (if it’s big enough) and take it to my local scrap yard. Makes up for being poor most of the time. I do have lots of extra storage space at my house though unlike you.
I was looking at the velocity bags on Amazon a few weeks ago
I had bad experience with velocity
It's the only company that ever madee feel bitter after dealing with them
If you saved up all your off cuts of cable in your spare room for 1 year them took it all to the scrap yard in one go then took your bride on holiday with the money she wouldnt mind then lol
And then Mr tax man wants his cut of the proceeds from all the dish made
😦😦😦😦😦😦😭😭😭😭😭
Fuck the tax man
We keep ours in a garage for the next job. Could be a year down the line but it’s there
For your storage issues, Do you have a garden then if so, how about getting a small lean-to shed or something like that then you can store cabling and other odds and sods.
yep i did work experience with a sparky and he wanted to cut the insulation on live 3 phase to install a breaker i asked if there was anything attached to the boards and it turned out there was an office upstairs which i wasn't aware of they lost all their info for the day a was placed with another sparky (i wasn't prepared to scrape him off the walls when he slipped the stanley across the 3 phase)
Although I am not a spark, We that do networking and telephony also have cable excess issues however my loving wife says keep it you might be able to use it somewhere, warm regards from Port Elizabeth, South Africa
I'm a third of the way in. Think I could have used it a a school bag on non pe days.
I cringe at the stock splat sound effects. Now to continue watching the video.
A hacksaw takes one minute to strip a armoured cable.... If you ever worked on a proper site where you have to drag a heavy toolbag all over.... You would know why those gimmicky tools never go mainstream. A proper electrician uses a hacksaw for everything..... because he can.
The SWA was doing like you get bit more than needed chuck the odd bit left in scrap ,but now many of our suppliers let use take a drum as most SWA are meter marked take back what I don't use charged for what I had.
Use sortimo first class kit I found. I take it you not looked at there accessories catalogue, the holes in roof rack and internal racking holes is for there lashing straps,which lock into them.
Every penny counts. to be more accurate with measuring those laser measuring tools work a treat for smallish areas.
The tool bag looks good however a smaller version would be better
I cant imagine how heavy it would be when loaded out with tools
Perhaps you could just use it for your holidays
Vans look good
I'm rather loving this lack of censoring these days Nagy! Fuck this and fuck that 😂
I use my attic it is like my personal screwfix
Does it work though?
single phase lift? if you have on site 3 phase then use it. single phase motors on hydrolic pumps just dont last. when i first started my gararge i had a single phase 2 post ramp and was forever changing the motor luckly there was a place next door who refirb motors. when i got a 3phase ramp 7 years ago its never faild
Storage unit ? Here in France they don't cost all that much, and some of them even allow you to put shelves in, if there aren't already !
Most of the time, it's cheaper than renting an extra garage, and it's WAY more secure, because there's someone surveying the thing 24/7.
I have a lockup for tools and spare materials. In your position id work out over a few months the amount of money in spare material your throwing and see if it is ecenomic to rent some storage.
Lucky enough to have storage with a log of what's in so if i need the 10m of armourd for a shed supply or whatever I know it's in and I can supply the customer straight from storage , any left over materials from a job will either be deducted from invoice or taken in the waste disposal terms
Would it be worth buying a large van, keep it legal but park it somewhere near you just for storage? There’s always the option to rent a lockup if there’s any near you that’s reasonably priced.
I’m over in Northern Ireland so I’m not sure, but surely you have a lock up facility or storage units around there somewhere?
A cheat way of doing a armoured they say ,obviously not done enough glands.
0:01 We're at Uncle Bobs. You've been on that job that long it probably seems that way alright. ;)