"BigWallop" wrote in message
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"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:12:22 +0100, "Andy Wade"
wrote:

snipped
A nut and bolt for the wire directly onto the tag
does not seem very good mechanically, so perhaps a soldered joint?

.andy



You should have been given a brass earth tag when you bought the glands
for
the SWA. Yes ? Then you will fit the brass tag (that's the thing with a
big hole in one end and small hole at the other) over the threaded end of
the brass gland before you stick it through the hole you've drilled for
the
fitting, and then tighten it in with the locking nut of the gland. Next
you'll need the two nuts, the four washers and the one bolt you bought
when
you got the rest of the fittings. You did get them, didn't you ?

Anyway. You can now drill a hole through the box and through the small
hole
of the brass earth tag. Yes, that's right, so you can bolt the small hole
end of the earth tag to the side of consumer unit too. You only use two
washers at this bit, one on the outside and one on the inside. Then you
put
one of the nuts on and tighten it all up so you make a sandwich of the
wall
of the consumer unit. Next. Take another washer and put it on top of the
nut on the inside of the box. You then take the 6 mm green/yellow
insulated
cable you got, you did get that as well, didn't you ?

Anyway. You crimp on the loop to one end of 6 mm cable and then slip it
over the bolt. What do you mean "I didn't get any crimp on loop" well
this
is were you're you gonna' need one to do the job right. OK. You've now
got
the crimp on loop on the end of the 6 mm green/yellow cable. Right. You
put the last washer on the top of that, and then the last nut on the top
of
that.. Don't tighten it up to far just now though, as you've got the
other
end of the cable to terminate.

Trim down the cable to the length you need and slip off some insulation,
enough to let you connect into the earth bar of the consumer unit. Yes,
the
brass bar thing screwed to the side with all the holes and bolt in it. No
!!! Not the one for the neutrals, the other one. Now, you've got that
end
secure, you can go back and tighten up the nut and make sure that the
cable
isn't fouling anything and that the lid will go back on without mishaps.

Right !!! You're ready to tackle the red and black conductors to the main
switch now ? Good !!!

Now !!! What about the other end of the SWA. :-))



What do you mean " You didn't get any shrouds to fit over the glands" ?


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