Rigid plastic conduit.

Jul 21, 2014 9 Replies

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Capitol 12 years ago

I'm just starting to put the wires through this stuff and IMO the bends are designed by idiots. It is not possible to put a fish tape through as there are shoulders in the bend mouldings, so it is necessary to undo the cover plates and persuade the tape to avoid the shoulder with a finger. The last lot of cast steel bends I used worked perfectly. Why can't people get a simple product right?

Incidentally, conduit wire insulation appears to have much thicker insulation now than 40 years ago. Is this always the case?

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Tim Watts 12 years ago

Don't use the bend joints - form the bends with a pipe bending spring :)

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Harry Bloomfield 12 years ago

Capitol brought next idea :

A proper punch needs a matching socket - a female part with a hole to closely match the male punch.

Rather than brass or 'brass' I have had success with the plastic eyelets. They come in two parts, and go together with a snap action.

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Dave Plowman (News) 12 years ago

Very good, Harry. ;-)

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Nightjar 12 years ago

Do you mean bends:

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inspection bends:

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or inspection elbows:

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The last have always been difficult to get wiring round.

Not used any recently to know.

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Harry Bloomfield 12 years ago

Harry Bloomfield was thinking very hard :

How did that happen?

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Capitol 12 years ago

Inspection bends, conduit bends are too long for the situation and inspection elbows are too tight for 6 cables.

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Nightjar 12 years ago

Odd. I've never found a problem with them, or at least not with the Egatube versions.

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ARW 12 years ago

I thought I once told you to use 22mm copper bends:-)

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Brian Gaff 12 years ago

And why does it seem to smell like some sort of anti fungus treatment? I walked past some people using some a few weeks ago, its either that or the guy has strange taste in after shave!

Brian

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