Gunner wrote:
On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 01:26:04 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
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?Gunner wrote:
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?? On Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:11:02 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
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?? ?? On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:31:04 -0500, Bob Engelhardt
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?? ?? ?On 3/1/2013 6:40 PM, wrote:
?? ?? ?? On Mar 1, 4:11 pm, ? wrote:
?? ?? ??? Can any one tell me what the difference between _rigid_ conduit and iron
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?? ?? ?? You can bend conduit with an inexpensive tool. Conduit is much
?? ?? ?? lighter and cheaper than pipe.
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?? ?? ?I've never seen rigid bent, only light ? intermediate. Rigid is heavy ?
?? ?? ?threaded. It uses preformed sweeps ? boxes to make turns. AFAIK
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?? ?? Only if you dont have a pipe bender for rigid. I have several
?? ?? differnet types of hand benders for rigid.
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?? ? Rigid is fun to bend. You definately need more thean a three foot
?? ?handle on the bender. Have you ever used rigid aluminum conduit?
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?? Ive heard of aluminum conduit..but give its properties...Id stay way
?? way away from it.
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?? I did help install a hydrogen furnace (50 feet long) using stainless
?? steel 1" pipe some years ago though. Some really odd pipe dope in
?? that project.
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? They used it in a juice processing plant near here, along with a lot
?of stainless pipes for the juice. I ended up with some leftover 3/4"
?aluminum conduit that had surface damage.
Whats it like to bend and how is the surface treated? Sounds like
White Fur country. That nasty white fur that grows on unanodized
aluminum as it eats its way in.....
The stuff is soft compared to iron. It can be bent by hand, and has
anodized surface. I had about 40 to 45 pieces, till my dad found it in
my stockpile and bent it into a pile of scrap to sell for the aluminum.
I had told him he could use any of the EMT scraps he wanted, but to
leave all the 10' pieces alone. He wasted about $1000 worth of pipe &
conduit.
I only manged to find a few pieces he missed. He would step on it in
the middle and fold it in half. It brought about 15% of the price it
would have sold for as conduit.