OT: What's this type of bracket called?

Yeah, I haven't seen it for yonks. It was common enough when I was a kid but as rare as rocking horse turds now.

When my mate was staying here for a few weeks, he gave me a lot of info on what went on in those environments - critical stuff. Probably why he gets $300k per year. He only works part time these days however since he now lives in China. Doing a job on Barrow Island, $65k for 6 weeks.

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Nothing astonishes Noddy so much as common sense and plain dealing. 
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You bend electrical PVC with hot air guns. Quite handy for odd offsets, lik e conduit inside a concrete block wall, and it comes out of the floor in t he wrong spot.. Keep in mind that you are limited to a total of 360 degrees in a run of conduit without a pullbox to split it into two runs.

New York uses steel because it takes longer to install, and all of their el ectricians are required to be in the union.

They won't use PVC in damp locations, which can cause EMT to rust through. Some areas use extruded aluminum conduit, or even stainless around food pro cessing plants like the Orange Juice processing plant near here.. I caught my dad chopping up new aluminum conduit that I was saving for a project. He had no idea what it was, so it was automatically scrap. It had a little su rface damage from being stored in an outside rack, but it wholesaled for $7

0 for a ten foot section. I managed to save five sections, out of 20. The l argest commercial electrical contractor in the area was cleaning up their i nventory, and gave me trailer loads of Rigid, EMT, PVC and aluminum that wa s shop worn. I was writing specs for them for networking, MATV and other ap plications that they normally farmed out to smaller companies. I asked for a couple pieces of conduit, and was given all if it.

Jeez!! I've never seen such a fuss about a simple bracket. How hard could it be ??

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I've never heard it called 'screwed'. It is called threaded, rigid conduit every area that I've lived. It is the same as black iron water pipe, but wi th no ridge from the welding inside to pipe to damage the insulation. All i t takes is one bad spot inside the pipe to strip the insulation enough to s hort it to the conduit.

This is Sylvia you're talking about. She'll make 200 posts about the stickiness of glue on the back of a stamp.

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Noddy wrote in news:qo0nkt$bv2$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

What? In some other group? She does not make so many posts here. Quite tame, actually.

Different aluminum alloys are better or worse for bending. (google it) 3003 is nice.

George H.

That's Noddy you're addressing there. He is a toxic little lying dweeb that usually only infests aus.cars. Noddy's problem is that he is of limited intellect so comprehension of a topic more complex than glue on stamps is way beyond his ken!

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Xeno 


Nothing astonishes Noddy so much as common sense and plain dealing. 
       (with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson)

just as I suggested. but why have a simple fix when the whole matter can be complicated to the extreme?

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golf clubs shafts are still steel. unless they're graphite of course.

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huh? you can bend plastic conduit?

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"an irrelevant nobody pretending to be something he's not"- Clocky on noddy 
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Lucky you.

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felix wrote in news:h0ibh8Fra0rU5 @mid.individual.net:

I knew a guy had a business taking 3" PVC pipe segment about 18" long and cutting two ten inch slits through them (4 actually). Then he heats them up in a big tall pot of boiling water. Then he presses the two ends together and the cnetr splits flex outward. It looks like a flower when he is done, but he sells them for like $50 each to the state and they used them as spacers for the refitting of bridge stanchions. He makes quite a bundle.

To make a good bend on the plastic conduit, one would likely have to fill it with sand and do it hot like I described. (then empty the sand of course).

It looks like a stay bar to me.

You could buy mild steel tubing and cold-form it (using a hammer etc)

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  When I tried casting out nines I made a hash of it.

With PVC you can stick a spring inside it and then bend it, then pull the spring out. or you can warm it up a bit and and it goes flexible like a hose.

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  When I tried casting out nines I made a hash of it.

Just use corrugated plastic conduit and bend to any shape you desire.

Noddy resides in aus.cars and is the resident nutter that sees himself as the "authority" there. Sylvia hardly ever posts there, but he likes to invent things and deride others so...

Yes, I've seen sparkies heat the pipe with a blowtorch and bend it around.