Hey Cory I am from Philadelphia Pennsylvania , and still find wire nuts all the time . I have been finding a lot of old porcelain wire nuts ! Those are old !! Great video as always
We still used wirenuts in the late nineties here in Finland. Now it's Wago all the way. Started with using wagos on low current circuits like lighting and wire nuts on high current like sockets, hubs and ovens. At least so I've been told, I'm almost 40yo now but been a full-time sparky for four years now, before that I was in IT but also did the company in-house electricity since I was qualified.
I think Sweden was largely the same, went from wirenuts (called "Santa's hats" there) straight to Wagos. Oddly enough, there are several clusters of "wirenut countries" in Europe that don't really seem to have any geographic relation. Sweden and Finland, the Netherlands, Italy and Portugal I think. Austria got a brief rush of them in the early 70s but that didn't last more than a few years. Germany preferred single-screw connectors, Austria had some of those and plenty of "choc blocks" (terminal strips with two screws per terminal) and most countries east of the Iron Curtain twisted and taped the wires. Czechoslovakia used junction boxes with fixed screw terminals and the GDR mainly used crimp connectors (yes, even in regular 2.5 mm2 aluminium house wiring).
Capri-Sun, brings back memories of my childhood back in the late 80s and early 90s 😊. But back then it was called "Capri-Sonne" (it's a German product, introduced in 1969), and was available only in orange, cherry, apple and lemon back then. It was fun to blow them up when empty, drop them on the ground and step on them so they explode with a big bang.
Sockets on feature stone walls - if you can get to the wall (which you can) , use a multi tool with a diamond masonary blade to cut a neat pocket for the back box and drill the cable hole through the back. Walls look like limestone which is very soft and easy to cut with a diamond cutter. Used the screw cap cable connectors back in the 60’s working with my dad who was an electrician.
I'm from Barny and know this build. Mental to see AE and Corey working in my neck of the woods. Also the video picture X is miles off where it is in the north east 😂
Afraid I am old enough to remember "wire Nuts". The ones we used were porcelain and were commonly known as "screwits", well into the 1960's. Great video, thanks.
Mainly because they're still allowed in the regulations and give good capacity on the circuit. However, I personally don't like them because as they get larger there is more opertunity for things to go wrong, or for people to modify them and break the ring... creating not insignificant safety issues. What I prefer is to use a circuit (radial) per room/area. If one needs extra capacity, such as for kitchen sockets, run a radial using 4mm² cable, protected by a 25A MCB or RCBO. If I'm doing a new install, it's never a ring. Also whether working on a ring or radial, I always WAGO a pigtail/jumper from the socket to the feed in and feed out of every socket location too. Which eliminates the chance that multiple wires will pop out of single clamp sockets that way. Which, if it is a ring being worked on, helps keep things safer. Though the new lever (WAGO style) per wire clamp sockets, or the ones with individual set-screw wire ports obviate that practice for me.
@@crashk6 thx mate , appreciate the info . Was not expecting you to have time to give such a well reasoned expansive answer! Cheers ! . Here in New Zealand generally only use radials (don’t call them that, rather just a circuit) eg , power sockets in kitchen on 2.5mm twin and earth , lights using 1.5mm twin and earth , on another circuit , then hob , oven , heat pump , hot water cylinder each on their own circuit using various sizes up to 6mm twin and earth . Residentially we use RCDs covering three circuits, for example two power , one lights.
It’s funny to see someone look at a wire nut like it’s a dinosaur, then go to the Home Depot near my house (in the US) and see bins full of them ready to be used on any electrical project.
I usually set left channel for camera mic or a shotgun mic attached to the camera with the wireless receiver connected to the right channel. Most cameras let you select each channel separately just for such scenarios. Great video as always though Cory!
We used to use only all-round band for running in cables above ceiling tiles over 20 years ago. I guess the copex just makes it easier to pull the cables through. They won’t snag as much.
The Parmo has been thoroughly reviewed. The best parmo around in the whole of the northeast in my opinion is from the three horse shoes hotel on the high street in Barney
Time to upgrade to the Rode Wireless GO 2 they record audio in the mic packs (transmitter) as a safety backup in case signal is lost anywhere in the chain.
Ah Cory, what a shame about the loss of sound, I did feel for you. Mind you in the spirit of diversity those of us who are a bit hard of hearing wouldn't mind trying to lip read some of your banter! Maybe you could use the rest of the footage as you did at the beginning, show it with some appropriate music and good cutting. It'd still be a good watch I reckon, what about sub-titles or those captions you already use? You know... when you've got a spare few days to do all that it'd be great 😂 I have to say it never ceases to impress me just how experienced a professional you are for one so young and then you come across some old time kit and you recognise it immediately and know what it's called! As one old enough to be your grandparent I'd like to know: have you been here before? You seem to have more life experience than your years. Always a pleasure to watch you, even though I felt so sad for you, hope you do decide to put out more of the silent footage, be a shame to waste it. Oh and that was torture watching the belt and braces home made Covid test, I can no longer drink, but I could taste and smell that Dura!
@Ellis The DJ well firstly, I already stated that I'm an old f*rt so I wouldn't know how you insert subtitles with sound let alone without. Secondly, I thought he might just remember some of the more notable nattering. Thirdly, it was meant to be a humerous, light hearted suggestion, hence the laughing emoji! 😂🤣😂
Her Cory, of course I've used screwits, all the go when I was a lad............mind you I'm 82 , started my 6 year apprenticeship when I was 15. 😂 I feel your pain re the audio loss !
Megger CertSuite is what we use. I made a video about it a while ago when it was called Vespula. Will be making an update video soon. ua-cam.com/video/p59PopjuyoE/v-deo.html
Wow, I had no idea wire-nuts were a thing of the past on your side of the pond. I've never been a huge fan, so sounds like the Industry has made some good progress in your neck of the woods... I was on a trip to the UK years ago, and stayed in a B&B where I met an apprentice stone-mason... kinda blew my mind... I mean, *who does that kind of thing, these days*?
Some European countries never had them, others phased them out some time in the past. The UK was probably first to do that, replacing them with various types of screw connectors that weren't necessarily a vast improvement. Other countries clung onto wire nuts well into the 1990s and replaced them straight with Wagos. By about 2000 everyone in Europe had moved entirely to Wagos and few are looking back. They're even rated for aluminium wires for those in the unlucky situation of dealing with cold war leftovers. You just need to fill the connectors with a paste supplied by the manufacturer, apparently plain vaseline.
Look at E5group discussion on the first UK wiring regulations in the late 1800s the diagram the regulation provided in splicing a conductor together and then adding solder to that actually provides the most robust and electrically sound (low resistance) connection as if a continuous conductor. While it’s great with newer connectors it’s still surprising some of the older connectors are still very robust if done well.
Used what you called by American name wire nuts when I was apprentice in lat me 60's. The English name is screw-it. That name has different meaning now
3:58 Are you making fun of the USA's old nuts, for wire? 😁 I must say when you can buy 1,000 of them for like $25. I bet you can't get that many Wago's for that price! I have to say I do like using the Wago's way better and very rarely use wire nuts, however they are expensive compared to the wire nuts. Most everyone here still uses them just because of cost in all jobs done today! 👍🤷♂️
@@cgf2000 Don’t get me wrong love the Wago’s but most still use the old wire it’s here as it’s the norm. Just have to give Cory a hard time about them. 👍
As a Brit who lives in the US, wire nuts were a shock and never feel quite secure, even with tape around them. Will be switching to Wagos going forward.
I'm sorry you had to bare the experience of making your video with no audio especially on your trip, how annoying that must have been for you but Cory Cory it could have been so much worse without video images and lovely music which was edited on afterwards. Not finished yet, read on... At least you had video images and got to film a dead rat in a cave, drink Capri Sun by the beach and have a picture with a Jammie Dodger... I'd say you didn't do too badly in the end. Hope you enjoyed your trip, I was in Barnard Castle in 1982, I was young at the time. I know all about dodgy leads on video and audio equipment, had to have a new HDMI lead in the T.V. recorder in the kitchen, I thought the thing had packed up just after the warranty had expired earlier in 2021 but all was ok with a new lead. Hope you got sorted out with a new Gopro lead and you are up and running again, time to carry spares incase. All the same, keep your videos going and I'll keep watching on the TV up on the shelf in our kitchen. Before I go, I thought I saw you at the Esso garage a few months ago in Birkenhead by Cammel Laird Ship Builders, I double took and thought no it can't be, the Cory lookalike guy went out to a BMW parked at the side of the forecourt. I'm still unsure even now whether that was you or not that afternoon! Please to readers of this post, no smart comments or cracks thankyou. Regards Alec RG in Wirral. Aka Alec Green 😀
I just came back from America after 10 years. Wire nuts work. I know for testing and everything they are impracticable but they are quick and in my opinion safer than a connector block
@Ellis The DJ that's the same as saying anyone can cut live wires. They are contained in the boxes, if people are busy digging around in electrical boxes, a wago isn't going to stop them
Subscribe to our UA-cam Channel for more great electrical content: ua-cam.com/users/artisanelectricsuk
Corey is a legend and a credit to Artisan Electrics, keep up the good work!
Mark my words, there is a tv celeb in the making there, funnier than most of the shower there is on tv at the moment
Agreed 😂👍🏻
Yes. Great editing too.
Hey Cory I am from Philadelphia Pennsylvania , and still find wire nuts all the time . I have been finding a lot of old porcelain wire nuts ! Those are old !! Great video as always
We still used wirenuts in the late nineties here in Finland. Now it's Wago all the way. Started with using wagos on low current circuits like lighting and wire nuts on high current like sockets, hubs and ovens. At least so I've been told, I'm almost 40yo now but been a full-time sparky for four years now, before that I was in IT but also did the company in-house electricity since I was qualified.
I think Sweden was largely the same, went from wirenuts (called "Santa's hats" there) straight to Wagos. Oddly enough, there are several clusters of "wirenut countries" in Europe that don't really seem to have any geographic relation. Sweden and Finland, the Netherlands, Italy and Portugal I think. Austria got a brief rush of them in the early 70s but that didn't last more than a few years. Germany preferred single-screw connectors, Austria had some of those and plenty of "choc blocks" (terminal strips with two screws per terminal) and most countries east of the Iron Curtain twisted and taped the wires. Czechoslovakia used junction boxes with fixed screw terminals and the GDR mainly used crimp connectors (yes, even in regular 2.5 mm2 aluminium house wiring).
Maybe wireless (Quinetic) switches would be a bit simpler for the lighting in the room with the feature wall?
Brilliant Video and cant wait for the next part. Corey cracks me up......
I learned how to use wire nuts at school. First year in there I learned basic sparky works.
Capri-Sun, brings back memories of my childhood back in the late 80s and early 90s 😊. But back then it was called "Capri-Sonne" (it's a German product, introduced in 1969), and was available only in orange, cherry, apple and lemon back then. It was fun to blow them up when empty, drop them on the ground and step on them so they explode with a big bang.
"Ignore the security tag". Love it. Class.
Is this a artistan job?
Sockets on feature stone walls - if you can get to the wall (which you can) , use a multi tool with a diamond masonary blade to cut a neat pocket for the back box and drill the cable hole through the back. Walls look like limestone which is very soft and easy to cut with a diamond cutter. Used the screw cap cable connectors back in the 60’s working with my dad who was an electrician.
Some posh metal conduit might have worked well on that stone wall..
Regular testing using the Jura method is definitely recommended. It may also be prudent to use other brands to cover any variations in the procedure.
I’m an electrician in the north east and these stone buildings a so common, it’s also common for alot of the stones used to be from nearby rivers
I'm from Barny and know this build. Mental to see AE and Corey working in my neck of the woods. Also the video picture X is miles off where it is in the north east 😂
Afraid I am old enough to remember "wire Nuts". The ones we used were porcelain and were commonly known as "screwits", well into the 1960's. Great video, thanks.
Interested in knowing why you guys still use ring circuits ?
Mainly because they're still allowed in the regulations and give good capacity on the circuit. However, I personally don't like them because as they get larger there is more opertunity for things to go wrong, or for people to modify them and break the ring... creating not insignificant safety issues. What I prefer is to use a circuit (radial) per room/area. If one needs extra capacity, such as for kitchen sockets, run a radial using 4mm² cable, protected by a 25A MCB or RCBO. If I'm doing a new install, it's never a ring. Also whether working on a ring or radial, I always WAGO a pigtail/jumper from the socket to the feed in and feed out of every socket location too. Which eliminates the chance that multiple wires will pop out of single clamp sockets that way. Which, if it is a ring being worked on, helps keep things safer. Though the new lever (WAGO style) per wire clamp sockets, or the ones with individual set-screw wire ports obviate that practice for me.
@@crashk6 thx mate , appreciate the info . Was not expecting you to have time to give such a well reasoned expansive answer! Cheers ! . Here in New Zealand generally only use radials (don’t call them that, rather just a circuit) eg , power sockets in kitchen on 2.5mm twin and earth , lights using 1.5mm twin and earth , on another circuit , then hob , oven , heat pump , hot water cylinder each on their own circuit using various sizes up to 6mm twin and earth . Residentially we use RCDs covering three circuits, for example two power , one lights.
It’s funny to see someone look at a wire nut like it’s a dinosaur, then go to the Home Depot near my house (in the US) and see bins full of them ready to be used on any electrical project.
I usually set left channel for camera mic or a shotgun mic attached to the camera with the wireless receiver connected to the right channel. Most cameras let you select each channel separately just for such scenarios. Great video as always though Cory!
Omg 13:05 reminded me of the Blair witch project!
Nice interesting video :) good to see Cory working hard as normal (well sort of lol).
In my experience, the porcelain nuts were in use up to the late 60's. But there may be some that were fitted later.
We used to use only all-round band for running in cables above ceiling tiles over 20 years ago. I guess the copex just makes it easier to pull the cables through. They won’t snag as much.
Corey could have his own channel! In a Class of his own!
I hope you're going to have a parmo while you're up north. I expect a full food review
The Parmo has been thoroughly reviewed. The best parmo around in the whole of the northeast in my opinion is from the three horse shoes hotel on the high street in Barney
It’s a bit of a posh parmo, but trust me, it’s beautiful
yeah Whisky is what you Need! don't forget to breathe it in and hold your breath then exhale through your nose!
10:38 Aah some Bendy Bundy 😆😆😆
Corey lad there NO ish in Artisan . PERFECTION is the motto
Another top video Cory 👍🏻
Good video. Time for a Covid test with some Clynelish I think.
Enjoyed the eye test comment.
Time to upgrade to the Rode Wireless GO 2 they record audio in the mic packs (transmitter) as a safety backup in case signal is lost anywhere in the chain.
Thats class.
As Jordan always says; it’s better than the rubbish on TV. Thanks for another entertaining video 👏 👍
Wirenuts are approved again now in UK
Channel Viewers: Too much EV content
Cory: Hold My Beer*
(*almost)
Side cutters are the tool of the day if you’re removing security tags.
Has Corey just heard of the word bosh? dont think he realises how much he says it haha
Excellent
Should get the new DJI wireless microphones cause they record on the device aswell as mic out so you have backup audio if the camera end fails.
Dr Cory's most marvelous and enjoyable patented Covid test
Has Ireland had most of its land mass vanish?
14:51 Hello Johnny 😎
Was this last week? I was driving through and thought i went past the van waiting to come over the 1 way bridge and thought i was just seeing things
Ah Cory, what a shame about the loss of sound, I did feel for you. Mind you in the spirit of diversity those of us who are a bit hard of hearing wouldn't mind trying to lip read some of your banter! Maybe you could use the rest of the footage as you did at the beginning, show it with some appropriate music and good cutting. It'd still be a good watch I reckon, what about sub-titles or those captions you already use? You know... when you've got a spare few days to do all that it'd be great 😂
I have to say it never ceases to impress me just how experienced a professional you are for one so young and then you come across some old time kit and you recognise it immediately and know what it's called! As one old enough to be your grandparent I'd like to know: have you been here before? You seem to have more life experience than your years.
Always a pleasure to watch you, even though I felt so sad for you, hope you do decide to put out more of the silent footage, be a shame to waste it.
Oh and that was torture watching the belt and braces home made Covid test, I can no longer drink, but I could taste and smell that Dura!
Oh my !
@Ellis The DJ well firstly, I already stated that I'm an old f*rt so I wouldn't know how you insert subtitles with sound let alone without.
Secondly, I thought he might just remember some of the more notable nattering.
Thirdly, it was meant to be a humerous, light hearted suggestion, hence the laughing emoji! 😂🤣😂
Her Cory, of course I've used screwits, all the go when I was a lad............mind you I'm 82 , started my 6 year apprenticeship when I was 15. 😂 I feel your pain re the audio loss !
Cory are you sure you not got Covid? Think 1 more drink just to make sure 🤣🤣
Excellent video...
That is Electricians doing Testing at its absolue finest 😄😄
can you/anyone recommend Testing Software? now trimble fasttest has been discontinued?
Megger CertSuite is what we use. I made a video about it a while ago when it was called Vespula. Will be making an update video soon. ua-cam.com/video/p59PopjuyoE/v-deo.html
While its no consolation the newer Rode Wireless Go has inbuilt recording (at two levels) as a backup
Best Covid test going, but to be more accurate, use the Barrel strength one
Great fun
1:09 Is Stuart Little sleeping on the job? 😆😆😆
What’s Johnny’s role?
It’s Jonny and his wife’s home I was working on!
@@corynoahmac nice one Cory, keep up the great banter in the videos. 👍
Why not use Quinetic switches on the stone walls? No need for drilling etc.
Wow, I had no idea wire-nuts were a thing of the past on your side of the pond. I've never been a huge fan, so sounds like the Industry has made some good progress in your neck of the woods... I was on a trip to the UK years ago, and stayed in a B&B where I met an apprentice stone-mason... kinda blew my mind... I mean, *who does that kind of thing, these days*?
Some European countries never had them, others phased them out some time in the past. The UK was probably first to do that, replacing them with various types of screw connectors that weren't necessarily a vast improvement. Other countries clung onto wire nuts well into the 1990s and replaced them straight with Wagos. By about 2000 everyone in Europe had moved entirely to Wagos and few are looking back. They're even rated for aluminium wires for those in the unlucky situation of dealing with cold war leftovers. You just need to fill the connectors with a paste supplied by the manufacturer, apparently plain vaseline.
Look at E5group discussion on the first UK wiring regulations in the late 1800s the diagram the regulation provided in splicing a conductor together and then adding solder to that actually provides the most robust and electrically sound (low resistance) connection as if a continuous conductor. While it’s great with newer connectors it’s still surprising some of the older connectors are still very robust if done well.
2:00 What you get for having a fire in a cave.. lucky it wasn't worse than just no sound
casy neist vibes to the start of the video.
Great video, shame about the lost footage 😎
Wouldn't have thought you would need to use copex over the allround band as after all the band is plastic coated ??? Belt & braces ???
Bad luck with the audio connection. Fantastic method to check for Covid.
Used what you called by American name wire nuts when I was apprentice in lat me 60's. The English name is screw-it. That name has different meaning now
Grey end does not go in the rode unit buddy. That is a trrs. The rode unit is trs. The grey end goes into your recording device
I tried both combos 😢. The lead is dodgy
The main man corey
Was anyone just saying neck it about the whiskey
wire nuts are older than Corey lol
3:58 Are you making fun of the USA's old nuts, for wire? 😁 I must say when you can buy 1,000 of them for like $25. I bet you can't get that many Wago's for that price! I have to say I do like using the Wago's way better and very rarely use wire nuts, however they are expensive compared to the wire nuts. Most everyone here still uses them just because of cost in all jobs done today! 👍🤷♂️
Give it a rest son
@@cgf2000 Don’t get me wrong love the Wago’s but most still use the old wire it’s here as it’s the norm. Just have to give Cory a hard time about them. 👍
As a Brit who lives in the US, wire nuts were a shock and never feel quite secure, even with tape around them. Will be switching to Wagos going forward.
I think that covid test could be a game changer but how do you know if your positive
If you can't smell and taste it you have COVID.
Nice vid
That feature wall would look awesome with galvanised conduit to the switch.
I'm sorry you had to bare the experience of making your video with no audio especially on your trip, how annoying that must have been for you but Cory Cory it could have been so much worse without video images and lovely music which was edited on afterwards.
Not finished yet, read on...
At least you had video images and got to film a dead rat in a cave, drink Capri Sun by the beach and have a picture with a Jammie Dodger... I'd say you didn't do too badly in the end.
Hope you enjoyed your trip, I was in Barnard Castle in 1982, I was young at the time.
I know all about dodgy leads on video and audio equipment, had to have a new HDMI lead in the T.V. recorder in the kitchen, I thought the thing had packed up just after the warranty had expired earlier in 2021 but all was ok with a new lead.
Hope you got sorted out with a new Gopro lead and you are up and running again, time to carry spares incase.
All the same, keep your videos going and I'll keep watching on the TV up on the shelf in our kitchen.
Before I go, I thought I saw you at the Esso garage a few months ago in Birkenhead by Cammel Laird Ship Builders, I double took and thought no it can't be, the Cory lookalike guy went out to a BMW parked at the side of the forecourt. I'm still unsure even now whether that was you or not that afternoon!
Please to readers of this post, no smart comments or cracks thankyou.
Regards Alec RG in Wirral.
Aka Alec Green 😀
I just came back from America after 10 years. Wire nuts work. I know for testing and everything they are impracticable but they are quick and in my opinion safer than a connector block
@Ellis The DJ that's the same as saying anyone can cut live wires. They are contained in the boxes, if people are busy digging around in electrical boxes, a wago isn't going to stop them
A terrible start to your video. You could have scrapped the first ten minutes.