Shop Renevations #3: Down to the wire... Literaly!!

Tyler that’s awesome you’re pretty lucky to be getting this at such a young age. I wish I had that much support from family when I was that young. I think going with 20 amp was a good idea. I hope the light is on a different breaker. Have you thought of using plywood instead of drywall? It will make it easier to hang stuff anywhere you want it.

-Matt

Tyler,

You are doing well and learning skills that will help you all throughout your life. I am sure you are getting excited about this now that you are entering the home stretch.

Keep us posted on your progress.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

congrats. Dont forget the thank the folks!

-- making sawdust....

Hi Tyler,

Some advice on wirepulling:

Get yourself some mason’s twine and some poly pull line (it’s a cheap, light-weight polyethylene/polypropylene rope [usually in a spool box]). To get the string through the conduit, tie a nice size piece of plastic trash bag to the end and then stuff it into one end of the conduit. Then use a shop vac to suck that through the conduit. Tie the twine to the end of the pull rope and pull it through. Then use the pull rope to get the wires through the conduit.

You could also use an electrician’s fish tape instead of the pull rope. Then you would use the twine to assist in getting the tape through the conduit. Sometimes it takes a bit of pushing and a little tug to get the tape past corners/bends.

Your conduit bending looks pretty nice.

-- Made lots of sawdust and pounded some nails. Haven't finished anything, though.

Nice job with the wiring Kiddo!

-- Only the Shadow knows....................

Great looking job! They do make a lubrication for pulling wires.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Hi Tyler

Way to go. You and your Dad will have everything done before you know it. Enjoy your postings.

God Bless
tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

Great job. nothing is more frustating than trying to get wires from one place to another.

When trying to get some wires from my home to my shop I buried a new conduit pipe. It was about 300’ and 4 90 deg bends. We put a rope through the pipe as we glued up each section, but it was still hard to get the wires through I placed 2 ethernet cables and a cable tv line in the pipe. the ethernet was for the computer and the other one was for 2 phone lines from the house.

My shop has all metal walls and roof and I can’t get any signals inside the building. Wireless phone, cell phone. nothing so I had to bring in solid wire to get myself live.

Great job.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Looking good Tyler. You are going to love that shop. What size wire did you use. pulling a cable through a pipe that allready has cable in it is next to impossible. Yes, as Matt stated, lighting on one circuit and power on another.

-- Ron in Osseo, Minnesota