Other-than-Cardinal Conduit Elbows

[K8MHZ]

The project is still evolving, but it looks like it might be 2.73 inches outside diameter.

It would be nice to have a trade size and type of conduit.

The tables in the back of the book don't list O.D. just I.D. 2.731 inches I.D. would be correct for 2 1/2 inch EMT.

 

[hillbilly1]

Back when I was a first year, I told my foreman with pride that I had learned to bend 1/2" EMT pretty accurately with a hand bender.

He pooh-poohed that and said any journeyman could bend EMT with his knee. Perhaps all you need is a knee.

I worked with a journeyman that would bend it across the back of his neck…….awful looking conduit runs! He said that was the way they did it on oil rigs.

 

[drcampbell]

It would be nice to have a trade size and type of conduit.

It would be even nicer if everybody used ACTUAL dimensions and I didn't need to explain, for example, why a 3-eench pipe doesn't fit in a 4-eench stud wall to each successive new generation entering the workforce. Or have a project delayed because 36-inch windows were delivered after the framers built 3-foot, 6-inch rough openings. Or be unable to assemble a prototype x-ray camera because there are different sheet-metal gauges for steel and copper. Or crash a Mars rover mission because people wouldn't agree on which measurement system to use. Or guess which one of four different horsepower or eight different tons was intended. Or crash a Boeing 767 with 69 people aboard in the outskirts of some far-flung small town on a remote Canadian prairie.

 

[K8MHZ]

It would be even nicer if everybody used ACTUAL dimensions and I didn't need to explain, for example, why a 3-eench pipe doesn't fit in a 4-eench stud wall to each successive new generation entering the workforce. Or have a project delayed because 36-inch windows were delivered after the framers built 3-foot, 6-inch rough openings. Or be unable to assemble a prototype x-ray camera because there are different sheet-metal gauges for steel and copper. Or crash a Mars rover mission because people wouldn't agree on which measurement system to use. Or guess which one of four different horsepower or eight different tons was intended. Or crash a Boeing 767 with 69 people aboard in the outskirts of some far-flung small town on a remote Canadian prairie.

Sorry. I was just trying to help. I didn't think asking for a trade size and type was all too much to ask. Good luck on your project. Perhaps you should hire an electrician that already knows how to bend pipe.

 

[Dell3c]

I worked with a journeyman that would bend it across the back of his neck…….awful looking conduit runs! He said that was the way they did it on oil rigs.

Wowww. hillbilly, was this a "segment bend" or a "one-shot bend" ??

 

[winnie]

Or be unable to assemble a prototype x-ray camera because there are different sheet-metal gauges for steel and copper. Or crash a Mars rover mission because people wouldn't agree on which measurement system to use.

It would be nice. Now if I could just get all you bozos to agree to use the light-nanosecond as the unit of length, the mass of 10^25 silicon atoms as the unit of mass, and the second for time, all would be well

-Jon