JJWalecka
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Any one used these steel EMT indenter couplings? No set screws just a tool to indent em.
steel indenter couplings
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JJWalecka
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petersonra
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- Northern illinois
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I am not even sure they are listed anymore. They seem to come apart a lot more than other joining methods, so I am not surprised a lot of specs don't allow it.
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I'm still trying to get my head around the notion that 30 years ago being the 80's.
Like the man said, "If I had known I would live this long I would have taken better care of myself."
We have the indedenter and a box of couplings in our shop, but I have never used either.
JJWalecka
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Never seen or heard of em before.... they were in a recent RACO BELL catalog. :huh:
kwired
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- NE Nebraska
Alot of the installs I see with those fittings seem to be less than tight. I would recommend pulling an egc in that conduit if I were you.
I won't say I have never seen them come apart, but seems like anytime Ihave wanted to take one apart it would not cooperate.
Just like you have to remember to tighten a set screw or compression nut, you have to remember to crimp these or they are subject to poor equipment grounding and possibly coming apart.
JJWalecka
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Alot of the installs I see with those fittings seem to be less than tight. I would recommend pulling an egc in that conduit if I were you.
Thanks for the feedback.
If its up to me I pull a EGC
Fulthrotl
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the part i find most damaging is remembering how you did something on a job....
and then realizing it was 30 years ago.......
what was ugly, was last night i had posted about doing some work on FPC Boron, CA
and afterwards, googled it....
and found it had been abandoned 10 years ago.... and someone had posted a few hundred
photos on flickr, and among them i found the lift i'd wired and maintained... and it looked
like an abandoned building from 100 years ago.....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/coldwararchaeology/5629885751/in/set-72157626488079836/
it wasn't that long ago... honest....
i'll be back later.. i need to go find my Geritol and walker, if i can remember where i put them.
readydave8
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- electrician
I kept some of the indent fittings from way back, use connectors occasionaly when mounting box to masonary or other solid wall, don't need as big a hole for entry through back of box.
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