Trunking
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03-11-2022 2:36am#1
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😬 Okay, guys. How is it that when ever I try to ask the simplest question; I somehow get drawn into writing a Russian novel?
I'm old enough that I don't do mm's. So, I couldn't really work out what Amazon's got there.
To help you good lads help me? I want to feed a bit of (God, the iron!) Round conduit through it. That corrugated, flexible plastic pipe? Damn stuff's black too. Wouldn't matter if it were pink with yellow spots. Black trunking's to hide it and 'keep the lines'.
Anyway, my Vernier thing's battery's dead. But, here's what it makes of the pipe. mm at the top, Inches at the bottom. My pipe's the '7.25' looking measurement.
I also want a quarter inch wiggle room, because a small flex will be running with one of the pipes.
Perhaps if we can figure out exactly what I want ...?
Thanks, lads.
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There's more!!! 😁 Everybody loves a happy ending, yeah? Well, if the purists could please forgive me and move along ~ Nothing to see here. No need to read this ~ I've just Got To tell how this all went!
Armed with a tiny off cut of my crinkly black plastic hose, I've wandered into my local providers, yesterday. Big place, of course They kept the plastic trunking stacked against the far wall. I remember, because I bought some a good while ago.
Only, that wall's now covered in brooms, mops, dust pans and such. I can clearly see, above the aisles, there's no trunking there. Nor, strangely, were there any staff. Anywhere! Quite eerie. Bloody great shop. Just me, standing there, looking lost and wondering where everyone is.
Well, I happened to notice a vertical stand of something, down by the back door to the yard. Mildly curious and wanting to kill time till someone appeared, I went over to look at it. Was This something to do with trunking? Oh. No, actually. It's metal stuff. All sorts of gear. Right angled, Various sizes. In gray or white. Nice for corners, I s'pose? Stuff that, I imagine, was mean't to cover floor laid flexes. Save people tripping over it. Pipes? I think. Square stuff too. From really tiny to quite bigger.
I thought how I'd never seen all this before. Must be new in. Lost interest and went to see if anyone was about yet. There's Eustis! Good. " Eustis? Were've ye hidden the plastic trunking? "
Cutting an even longer story shorter; He took me to a fresh in load of the stuff. Poked my bit of pipe at it? Not happening. Just too small a hole. I was gutted. He told me what size that was. I explained I just needed to fit that pipe in it. And have room for a bit of thin flex. He said the next size in existence was such and such. Went and got me some, for a look at.
Hell, no! 40 x 25mm. Anyway, the pipe fit nicely, one way. The other? I could have crawled in there with it! This stuff, blacked up or not, would look Dreadful in my tank! No Way! It was about Twice as wide as I needed. Might as well stick a telegraph pole in the corner of an 18" tank!
I was Beyond gutted! Walked out. Head down. Mouth turned down. Feeling incredibly down. Square one. Back to the drawing board. Coming on the internet and asking silly stuff on fora. Hang a f***ing bout!!! That weird sh!t. The new stuff by the door? Didn't I see some square stuff?!
I practically Ran back to the shop. Dashed straight through, to the back door. Scanned all this metal weirdery. Tentatively Dared to try my scrap of plastic pipe against a particular bit.
The staff were actually laughing to see this dishevelled old man, roaring and almost crying with absolutely unbridled delight! I'd found my holy bloody grail!!! Three foot long. 7/8th" internal. Aluminium 'square section'.
If Eustis ~ or Any of the staff ~ had been available, when I walked in? It would have been; " Trunking? This. No good? Well, you're sh!t out of luck. Now, please go. Ye make the place look untidy. "
And that would have been it! I'd never have got Near that new little mini display of aluminium wonders! 🤗
Isn't This a beautiful thing to behold? 😍
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