4" RGS Elbow

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Seemingly there might be more to the question. If you use a factory 90 are you going to have to cut & thread the adjoining stick ?
 
Seemingly there might be more to the question. If you use a factory 90 are you going to have to cut & thread the adjoining stick ?
Which is likely to be necessary either way, at least on one leg. The factory elbow saves layout time, too.
 
Bending vs. Pre-bend and cutting and threading a nipple, not much of a difference. With 4" RMC the difference will come when you try to spin on a elbow on a full 10' length of conduit. Then you'll wish that you had a manufactured elbow with a nipple.
 
Well I included bending in my estimate and it gave me 3 hours per 4 in bend.
Well that's a money maker in either case. However, if I was trying to trim a bid for competitive reasons I would be adjusting this down.
 
Well that's a money maker in either case. However, if I was trying to trim a bid for competitive reasons I would be adjusting this down.
Gotcha I just don't know if the guys in the field are going to use prefab elbows or bend. I have about 10,000 ft of RGS. It consists of about four to six four inch pipes in each run. I put in bending cuz I wasn't really sure what would determine if they would use prefab elbows. It's all overhead runs at about 25 ft. Wide open space being supported by trapeze racks.
 
Considering a project of that size we would be field bending
 
10,000 ft of PVC Coated 4: RGS.
More power to you. I can't tell you how nervous I would be with that bid.
Hopefully you have some dang god journeyman and a lot of Ben-Gay.,.
 
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I did this with all factory bends, and only had to cut and thread straight sections. I actually worked from the top down, so the Eriksons at the bottom at the reducers were the only ones I needed.

Up top, I had to 45 out from the wall, put in a 5' stick on 45 deg., a 90 around a ledge, another 5' stick at 45 deg., a 45 to horizontal, then one 90 down into the top of a disconnect, the other a GEC to a plate.

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If you're interested, you can see the conduits wrap around the ledge and actually don't touch it.

(Please note that I did not run the 1-1/4" conduit; the cellular technician did.)


 
10,000 ft of PVC Coated 4: RGS.
More power to you. I can't tell you how nervous I would be with that bid.
Hopefully you have some dang god journeyman and a lot of Ben-Gay.,.
No it's about 3,000' pvc coated and 7,000' RGS non coated.

THey are actually seriously considering changing the RGS(non pvc coated) to RMC aluminum. Would aluminum be any easier than RGS?
 
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