SPIKER
Elite Member
Re: WELL DONE!!! FER ALL TBNER\'S AND BETWEEN GATOR BOY
I've done a few of them too, usually as one of the many enmass to help lower/raise. Here is a question for ya polecat:
my farm house well (been in since 70's) has steel ~4" cassing. the plastic line actually exist the SIDE of the casing about 5' down!? Never seen one like this and am not sure how you are susposed to PULL it when I can't even reach it!?
I expect I will have to dig down the outside to the HOLE in the casing and take the plastic appart there when it will need to be pulled. wires are up and over like normal. though they are all spliced up on the outside from either rats or weedeater thgough I DID have a small woodchuck appempt to live there too. had to smoke bomb and poisen him and then fix the nawed up wires. they were not damaged copper just insulation and I've been doing electrical work for a long while.)
(the vice gripps DO work but are not the best way and in many cases around here you would not pass an inspection using that crush method.) You mush use the correct crimper, (I actualy use an old pair of wire/bolt cutters which I welded up a grade 8 nut and a hunk of half round stock and crimp using that and a bolt the bolt threads into the nut and is held tight suing a lock nut.) you can adjust the deapth of crimp by raising or lowering the bolt or by under closing the bolt cutters. mine are like 18" ones. work pretty good if I do say so myself /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif anyhow just though you may want to try and make up a set, get a cheapo pair of odd lots or harbor freight bolt cutters 18~24" and weld the nut/die parts onto the front of the jaws, so that you can still cut somethign in the back of the jaws.
Mark M
I've done a few of them too, usually as one of the many enmass to help lower/raise. Here is a question for ya polecat:
my farm house well (been in since 70's) has steel ~4" cassing. the plastic line actually exist the SIDE of the casing about 5' down!? Never seen one like this and am not sure how you are susposed to PULL it when I can't even reach it!?
I expect I will have to dig down the outside to the HOLE in the casing and take the plastic appart there when it will need to be pulled. wires are up and over like normal. though they are all spliced up on the outside from either rats or weedeater thgough I DID have a small woodchuck appempt to live there too. had to smoke bomb and poisen him and then fix the nawed up wires. they were not damaged copper just insulation and I've been doing electrical work for a long while.)
(the vice gripps DO work but are not the best way and in many cases around here you would not pass an inspection using that crush method.) You mush use the correct crimper, (I actualy use an old pair of wire/bolt cutters which I welded up a grade 8 nut and a hunk of half round stock and crimp using that and a bolt the bolt threads into the nut and is held tight suing a lock nut.) you can adjust the deapth of crimp by raising or lowering the bolt or by under closing the bolt cutters. mine are like 18" ones. work pretty good if I do say so myself /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif anyhow just though you may want to try and make up a set, get a cheapo pair of odd lots or harbor freight bolt cutters 18~24" and weld the nut/die parts onto the front of the jaws, so that you can still cut somethign in the back of the jaws.
Mark M
