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Anybody seen anything like this before?
The way I cut ½” flexible steel conduit is I first crack it like a
crab at the point I want to cut and when it separates I cut it with side cutters. A while back I had taken out about ten feet of it from an old house for some reason I don’t remember now. It was in real good shape so I saved it in case I needed it some day. So a few days ago I needed a short enough piece and I remembered that old conduit I had saved. I measured it and grasped it with both hands and tried to crack it at the point I wanted to cut. Either they have different grades of flexible steel conduit and nobody told me or they must have made those extra strong in the old days because there was no way I could crack it. It was like trying to bend EMT with my bare hands. I finally had to cut it with a hacksaw. |