Power mains question: wire gauge

Dec 28, 2012 143 Replies

The plastic (PVC) I've seen is *not* recommended for air supply. It will shatter. Do you have other information? Cite?

PVC can shatter and fling bits at high velocity. Other plastics are better for air.

If a PVC pipe is pressurized by water, and it breaks, the shards have a much lower velocity than if the pipe carried air.

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Only takes about a fifteen foot length to toss over the rafter in the garage. One loop around the neck, a little hop off the step ladder, and you won't need any wire any more.

Clearly it's difficult to pull #36 wire through conduit, but with your professed expertise in all things non-trivial, one would think you'd relish, rather than detest, the challenge.

You're as clueless as Michael. Actually more, since I corrected the tupo some time back.

You really didn't, since all you made reference to was the missing # sign, but not its location in the string. Sloppy work all around, but then that's just you...

Not 36 gauge. 36 wires in the bundle to be pulled.

Pully Bully

You really are as stupid as DimBulb. Look what's above the "3" on your keyboard.

No, you simply can't think, but that's nothing new to anyone here.

Then show us how, dimmie. The roof is only 9.5 feet off the floor.

I guess it's time to toss him back ito the dimmie bucket. It's hard to beleive that he's an 'engineer'. :(

You tie off to the floor. Up and over the rafter... Form a loop. Just enough for you to need to climb up a step or two to put your head into it..

Better make it at least two though. You'd warp the rafter down enough that one step wouldn't do the job... lard ass.

Correction: Go back to your blatantly obvious hard core senility onset. Anyone who has seen your posts over the years can see it. it is so obvious. Sad for you.

You're as ignorant as KRW. Not all garages have 'rafters' that you can "up and over". Ever hear of a "PITTSBURG ROOF"?

You're as ignorant as KRW, and not everyone is a lard ass like you..

Good Lord, you've taken the AlwaysWrong KoolAid, along with Fields.

Says the idiot that reads "plastic" and morphs it into "PVC".

You are a true retard.

Speaking about not thinking, it's interesting to note that, in an argument, whenever you come up against the stops because of your limited capability to use logic and reason - which you demonstrate ad nauseam - you always revert to ad hominem.

You are the expert at not thinking.

You're funny, Fields. Too bad you're such an idiot. You don't even know that 3 is "#", even though it's right in front of your stupid nose.

Plastic water pipe *is* PVC, moron.

Of course; that's why it's so easy to see through your sad little charade of literacy.

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