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I need an idea on how to use scrap electrical conduit.
Recently a neighbor that cleans up construction sites had about 100
pieces of one inch electrical conduit cutoffs from 1 foot to four feet long. On an impulse I offered him $20 for the lot thinking surely I can come up with some way of using them. What are some creative things some of you have used this stuff for? Possible uses I have thought of: Rollers for a conveyor system. Wind chimes. Tent stakes. Anything? DL |
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I need an idea on how to use scrap electrical conduit.
TwoGuns wrote: Recently a neighbor that cleans up construction sites had about 100 pieces of one inch electrical conduit cutoffs from 1 foot to four feet long. On an impulse I offered him $20 for the lot thinking surely I can come up with some way of using them. What are some creative things some of you have used this stuff for? Possible uses I have thought of: Rollers for a conveyor system. Wind chimes. Tent stakes. Anything? Frames for wire racks & shop carts. I always thought it would make good car axles for libtards, though. ;-) -- Lead free solder is Belgium's version of 'Hold my beer and watch this!' |
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I need an idea on how to use scrap electrical conduit.
TwoGuns wrote:
Recently a neighbor that cleans up construction sites had about 100 pieces of one inch electrical conduit cutoffs from 1 foot to four feet long. On an impulse I offered him $20 for the lot thinking surely I can come up with some way of using them. What are some creative things some of you have used this stuff for? Possible uses I have thought of: Rollers for a conveyor system. Wind chimes. Tent stakes. Anything? DL My uses include: tomato stakes flea-market tarp frame cheater bars I understand electricians use them somehow. |
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I need an idea on how to use scrap electrical conduit.
Possible uses I have thought of:
Rollers for a conveyor system. Wind chimes. Tent stakes. Anything? DL My uses include: tomato stakes flea-market tarp frame cheater bars I understand electricians use them somehow. I've got a pile of 7/8 conduit. maybe 500 ten footers. And i need to make tomtato stakes for 150 plants. I checked growers out in FL this winter. They use rebar with the advantage being the tying twine you run down the row doesn't slip - just loop and pull tight. Here I'm thinking buy rebar. How do you use conduit for tomato plants? Specifially, how do you tie to this slick stuff? karl |
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I need an idea on how to use scrap electrical conduit.
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 14:22:40 -0500, "Karl Townsend"
wrote: I've got a pile of 7/8 conduit. maybe 500 ten footers. And i need to make tomtato stakes for 150 plants. I checked growers out in FL this winter. They use rebar with the advantage being the tying twine you run down the row doesn't slip - just loop and pull tight. Here I'm thinking buy rebar. How do you use conduit for tomato plants? Specifially, how do you tie to this slick stuff? karl TIG welding :-) Mark Rand RTFM |
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I need an idea on how to use scrap electrical conduit.
On Apr 5, 2:36*pm, Mark Rand wrote:
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 14:22:40 -0500, "Karl Townsend" wrote: I've got a pile of 7/8 conduit. maybe 500 ten footers. And i need to make tomtato stakes for 150 plants. I checked growers out in FL this winter. They use rebar with the advantage being the tying twine you run down the row doesn't slip - just loop and pull tight. Here I'm thinking buy rebar. How do you use conduit for tomato plants? Specifially, how do you tie to this slick stuff? karl TIG welding :-) Mark Rand RTFM Keep in mind that most conduit is Galvanized (Zinc) plated. No Welding without removing the Zinc. _kevin |
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I need an idea on how to use scrap electrical conduit.
On Apr 5, 2:46*pm, karchiba wrote:
On Apr 5, 2:36*pm, Mark Rand wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 14:22:40 -0500, "Karl Townsend" wrote: I've got a pile of 7/8 conduit. maybe 500 ten footers. And i need to make tomtato stakes for 150 plants. I checked growers out in FL this winter.. They use rebar with the advantage being the tying twine you run down the row doesn't slip - just loop and pull tight. Here I'm thinking buy rebar. How do you use conduit for tomato plants? Specifially, how do you tie to this slick stuff? karl TIG welding :-) Mark Rand RTFM Keep in mind that most conduit is Galvanized (Zinc) plated. *No Welding without removing the Zinc. _kevin If you do breathe the zinc fumes, drink lots of milk. |
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I need an idea on how to use scrap electrical conduit.
karchiba wrote:
Keep in mind that most conduit is Galvanized (Zinc) plated. No Welding without removing the Zinc. Or you will learn what the Zinc Flu is. Wes |
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I need an idea on how to use scrap electrical conduit.
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 12:46:45 -0700 (PDT), the infamous karchiba
scrawled the following: On Apr 5, 2:36*pm, Mark Rand wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 14:22:40 -0500, "Karl Townsend" wrote: I've got a pile of 7/8 conduit. maybe 500 ten footers. And i need to make tomtato stakes for 150 plants. I checked growers out in FL this winter. They use rebar with the advantage being the tying twine you run down the row doesn't slip - just loop and pull tight. Here I'm thinking buy rebar. How do you use conduit for tomato plants? Specifially, how do you tie to this slick stuff? karl TIG welding :-) Mark Rand RTFM Keep in mind that most conduit is Galvanized (Zinc) plated. No Welding without removing the Zinc. Kevin, after removing the zinc, what rod do you use to attach tomato stems to the conduit? silly grin -- In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. -- John Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850 |
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I need an idea on how to use scrap electrical conduit.
On Apr 5, 12:35*pm, TwoGuns wrote:
Recently a neighbor that cleans up construction sites had about 100 pieces of one inch electrical conduit cutoffs from 1 foot to four feet long. On an impulse I offered him $20 for the lot thinking surely I can come up with some way of using them. What are some creative things some of you have used this stuff for? Possible uses I have thought of: Rollers for a conveyor system. Wind chimes. Tent stakes. Anything? DL Thanks guys. You gave some useful ideas. DL |
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I need an idea on how to use scrap electrical conduit.
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:27:03 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 12:46:45 -0700 (PDT), the infamous karchiba scrawled the following: On Apr 5, 2:36*pm, Mark Rand wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 14:22:40 -0500, "Karl Townsend" wrote: I've got a pile of 7/8 conduit. maybe 500 ten footers. And i need to make tomtato stakes for 150 plants. I checked growers out in FL this winter. They use rebar with the advantage being the tying twine you run down the row doesn't slip - just loop and pull tight. Here I'm thinking buy rebar. How do you use conduit for tomato plants? Specifially, how do you tie to this slick stuff? karl TIG welding :-) Mark Rand RTFM Keep in mind that most conduit is Galvanized (Zinc) plated. No Welding without removing the Zinc. Kevin, after removing the zinc, what rod do you use to attach tomato stems to the conduit? silly grin Tomato Paste? sillier grin Gerry :-)} London, Canada |
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I need an idea on how to use scrap electrical conduit.
On Apr 6, 12:27*am, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 12:46:45 -0700 (PDT), the infamous karchiba scrawled the following: On Apr 5, 2:36*pm, Mark Rand wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 14:22:40 -0500, "Karl Townsend" wrote: I've got a pile of 7/8 conduit. maybe 500 ten footers. And i need to make tomtato stakes for 150 plants. I checked growers out in FL this winter. They use rebar with the advantage being the tying twine you run down the row doesn't slip - just loop and pull tight. Here I'm thinking buy rebar. How do you use conduit for tomato plants? Specifially, how do you tie to this slick stuff? karl TIG welding :-) Mark Rand RTFM Keep in mind that most conduit is Galvanized (Zinc) plated. *No Welding without removing the Zinc. Kevin, after removing the zinc, what rod do you use to attach tomato stems to the conduit? *silly grin -- Actually if you use silicon bronze you can skip removing the zinc. And the galvanize will be good almost to the silicon bronze. I would still use good ventilation, but there are almost no fumes. Dan |
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I need an idea on how to use scrap electrical conduit.
Karl wondered:
How do you use conduit for tomato plants? Specifially, how do you tie to thi s slick stuff? This looks like an opportunity to build a tool! Create a roller rig that will "neck" that EMT every few inches. Sort of like a pipe cutter, but with a dull edge, so it doesn't cut the pipe, just roll-forms a compressed line in it. You might get away with just grinding a pipe-cutter's wheel to a round profile. In which case, since all good Rigid-brand pipe cutters have replaceable cutters, that's not a very expensive proposition. Then... you set up your lathe without the tailstock so you can chuck up the pieces, and just "step" down the pipe with the forming tool. Heck! You might not even destroy the galvanizing, if you polish the wheel. LLoyd |
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I need an idea on how to use scrap electrical conduit.
On Apr 5, 11:35*am, TwoGuns wrote:
Recently a neighbor that cleans up construction sites had about 100 pieces of one inch electrical conduit cutoffs from 1 foot to four feet long. On an impulse I offered him $20 for the lot thinking surely I can come up with some way of using them. What are some creative things some of you have used this stuff for? Possible uses I have thought of: Rollers for a conveyor system. Wind chimes. Tent stakes. Anything? DL My dad was an electrician and we had whole trashcans full of cutoffs. Some of the things he used them for were spacers, flattened the ends, drilled holes and used them for rungs on trellis-types of things, hung two pieces from ropes hanging from rafters like swings to support ladders laid flat, welded up a bicycle stand from a bunch. Also short pegs to hang stuff on and always short stubs needed to hook electrical boxes together. Had probably 500 lbs when we cleaned the place out, got a few bucks for scrap value. Anything over a foot was useful, short stuff was pretty much scrap. Stan |
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I need an idea on how to use scrap electrical conduit.
Cross-Slide wrote:
RTFM Keep in mind that most conduit is Galvanized (Zinc) plated. *No Welding without removing the Zinc. _kevin If you do breathe the zinc fumes, drink lots of milk. THe plants may not care for the zinc either, as it corrodes off I know that everywhere on my roof where there is some galv metal, there is no moss down hill from it. jk |
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I need an idea on how to use scrap electrical conduit.
TwoGuns wrote:
Recently a neighbor that cleans up construction sites had about 100 pieces of one inch electrical conduit cutoffs from 1 foot to four feet long. On an impulse I offered him $20 for the lot thinking surely I can come up with some way of using them. What are some creative things some of you have used this stuff for? Possible uses I have thought of: Rollers for a conveyor system. Wind chimes. Tent stakes. Anything? DL Wind chimes is good---but you have to suspend them at the proper place to get the proper sounding full tone--Try by suspending between thumb & finger---then you have to find the sweet spot to strike it also--if you goof & cut one too short you can add a little weight on the bottom. JW |
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I need an idea on how to use scrap electrical conduit.
Mark Rand wrote:
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 14:22:40 -0500, "Karl Townsend" wrote: I've got a pile of 7/8 conduit. maybe 500 ten footers. And i need to make tomtato stakes for 150 plants. I checked growers out in FL this winter. They use rebar with the advantage being the tying twine you run down the row doesn't slip - just loop and pull tight. Here I'm thinking buy rebar. How do you use conduit for tomato plants? Specifially, how do you tie to this slick stuff? karl TIG welding :-) Mark Rand RTFM wire welding faster--line 'em up--snap a chalk line & pop a bead on each one |
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I need an idea on how to use scrap electrical conduit.
I just use garden tape. Available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00DG...b_b_asin_image
It works fine. |
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