AL Conduit ?

Bubbles

Anyone use any of this yet? What do you think?

http://www.alliedtube.com/electrical...um-grc-emt.asp

mdshunk

I've used AL rigid in the past. As I recall, you needed special threading oil to therad it. I think the oil was blue in color, if memory serves.

Magnettica

Last time I worked with aluminum conduit it was for a rooftop cellular tower set-up, 12 stories up, 200 amp MB panel. I locked the damn keys in the damn truck that day. D'oh!

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mdshunk

I bet you have a key in your wallet now, eh?

Magnettica

No, I don't, but I'll never have that happen again. I was working for somebody and they had to send somebody else out with a spare key. Peckerhead docked 2 hours pay because he had to send the kid out. Now I don't work for him anymore.

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mahlere

Peckerhead cost me $200 cause he locked the keys in his truck...i only docked him $50... he was lucky

Speedy Petey

AL conduit is not new. Been around a long time.

I had used quite a bit of it in the past. I can't say why or when it would be spec'd though.

Sure is easy to thread and carry.

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TxElectrician

I have found it hard to push a fish tape through the smaller sizes.

Magnettica

That's alright because my labor has paid for your home, boat, and many trips to Las Vegas, but not anymore.

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randomkiller

Nice to see you guys get along so well.

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randomkiller

We do alot of work for Verizon Wireless and Verzion, they both spec alum. conduit for their jobs. Threading can be a bit of a pain, fresh dies and the proper oil is everything. We have had a different (aircraft) grade of alum. speced for outside corrosive environments, it has a hard outter coating and is a dog to thread without ripping off threads and chunks. Learned to wipe it with vaseline and then oil as normal.

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Magnettica

I think we get along fine. He was just probably pointing out the owners point of view and I was venting from an employees point of view. As far as I know I have never been employed by mahlere.

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Bkessler

That was a nice exchange between Malhere and Magnettica, it made me laugh.

FarmerSpark

I have ran miles of AL rigid conduit. It is usually in a hazardous enviroment, like a waste water treatment plant, outside, ect. Ran some stainless in a food plant once. AL is not anything new....been around a long time. We just used good dies, and light cutting oil.

Sparky Joe

I got a kick out of that quick wit too


I've never used aluminum pipe, but I've heard of it. I remember the guy saying it has a lot of spring back or maybe it was not a lot of spring back, and that it bent like butta with a hand bender.