On 17/10/2019 00:44, John Miller wrote:
Interested to know how others do this, particularly the professionals.
When spurring off a socket on the ring, there's always 3 cables to fit
into the holes. In the past I've tried twisting the 3 together, usually
with pliers, but not always successfully, folding individual cables back
on themselves just don't seems to fit even clamping them up tightly with
pliers- 2 OK but not 3.Â* Fitting them with a single strand seems to be
the easiest way but is it a good idea?

John M

UK sockets aren't designed to have the ends folded over.
Folding the single core enough to get it in will probably result in
stress fractures. Then you have to be sure the screw is clamping the
unbent bit and not the bit you have bent over as it could break later
due to thermal creep and vibration.

I never fold them over, if they don't fit and grip its time to use a
different brand of fitting.