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No, if you are going to "notice that too", then it is "too", not "to", as in "also" In this context "too" has a very similar meaning to "also". So, "I noticed that too". Come on lads get it right.
 
Imagine the pleasure you'd have if you walked into a customers premises to quote for your first job and they said,

What I want is a 2 way and inter, with the switches 110mm apart and the light above on a right angled piece of 20mm tube.

You'd be bang on with the quote, you'd know exactly how much conduit/cable and how long to do it.

However if they wanted the switches 20mtrs apart, you'd be knackered..

And now 2 Top tips;

1st; When fixing a saddle top, remove the loose screw before you put the conduit in so you don't fiddle about trying to get it out.

2nd; Have a pocket full of spare screws, it saves have to climb down off the ladder in the freezing cold outside when the B%rstard things won't stay in your fingers.
 
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think it's more designed as an exercise in making a bend rather than doing it the easy way
 
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going down to Baff on Sunday two pik up me Sister in law, shes kumin too stay for a few weeks
just bear in mind that peepul wot live in baff call it barf. wonder if they throw up all the time.
 
just bear in mind that peepul wot live in baff call it barf. wonder if they throw up all the time.
pOSH Geezers kall it Baaaaf enfusisin the Bee
 
think it's more designed as an exercise in making a bend rather than doing it the easy way
Thinking back when I was still working, a Sparky Mate of mine who did his time with British Rail, came up to me on a job and asked what I thought of his plastic tube job (he had never used it before) all the bends and sets were singed, he apparently thought you needed to heat the tube prior to bending, he was surprised when I shoved a spring in and bent it over my knee.
 
Thinking back when I was still working, a Sparky Mate of mine who did his time with British Rail, came up to me on a job and asked what I thought of his plastic tube job (he had never used it before) all the bends and sets were singed, he apparently thought you needed to heat the tube prior to bending, he was surprised when I shoved a spring in and bent it over my knee.
The early stuff had to be warmed, else it split. the first time I saw it done without heat I was gobsmacked
 
Thinking back when I was still working, a Sparky Mate of mine who did his time with British Rail, came up to me on a job and asked what I thought of his plastic tube job (he had never used it before) all the bends and sets were singed, he apparently thought you needed to heat the tube prior to bending, he was surprised when I shoved a spring in and bent it over my knee.
The early stuff had to be warmed, else it split. the first time I saw it done without heat I was gobsmacked. I don't know how long I was heating it after it changed.
 
I was using it in 1963 and it didn't need heating
OK I'm happy to accept there were different types out there, the stuff I used was very shiny and didn't have much more sag than steel, come to think of it, it probably looked very similar to black laquered. I remember trying to bend a length into my Austin Maxi (maximum diagonal length around 8.5ft) and is split like a bamboo cane.
 

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