They are fine until the staple hits a knot in the timber and flirts the staple into the cable,

Even worse when you don't see the damage until you start chasing your tail when commissioning

The 4.5mm clips will have been supplied with of late make staples a very attractive choice!

What clips for 8 core are peeps using these days?

Edited April 27, 201412 yr by steveo44

2.5mm T+E, no fecking chance of damaging the 8core, seriously though surely we use staplers/clips, we all run the risk of damaging a cable!-put one 8 core in 16x25 trunking just to be on the safe side?.

Ive used staple guns since I was 14 never had an issue apart from when I've stapled blind and hit the cable. Never had a knot fire an end back into the cable when correctly seated. Not saying it can't happen just never happened to me

As James, had mis-fired staples, pulled them out, metered the cable, very, very rare to actually cut a core.

Misfired sounds a lot better than not being able to seen the breech and firing anyway. Ta

I think it all depends on the engineer and his understanding of the problems you can get not just at commissioning time but later on in the movie , I have always used a staple gun in the correct areas and experience tough me to be careful, Although i do like to trunk were i can or aluminium tubing 

I like aluminium tubing. Useful for persuading people to your way of thinking

A 500mm piece of 25mm galv tube kept in the front of the van, Now that's a good persuader

Man after my own thinking.

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TSI does not condone the use of heavy conduit for use as an offence weapon in inappropriate conditions. A vote on TSI determined use on union representatives, salesmen and NACOSS inspectors did not class as inappropriate conditions.