What the ?!!!?!?!!

[480sparky]

Strolling through the local bigbox store tonight, I spied these.......... 'creatures'.



1" set - screw coupler... with a flat disc welded on one end.

So,,,, what's it for?

 

[Dennis Alwon]

For future run of the pipe. Stick it on the end of the pipe- no box needed... never saw one before and I can't imagine they will sell many of them.

 

[480sparky]

I'd saunter down to the paint department and buy a roll of Gorilla duct tape before I bought something like that. It's like a solution looking for a problem.

 

[Todd0x1]

That would be a setscrew EMT cap.

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[Carultch]

I'd saunter down to the paint department and buy a roll of Gorilla duct tape before I bought something like that. It's like a solution looking for a problem.

I think the idea of this fitting, is to make the dead-end of your conduit run look more professional (instead of improvised) and less subject to tampering. Someone has to go get a screwdriver to remove this cap, but tape they can pick off with their fingers.

 

[tom baker]

Some facilities have specs that require all conduit runs to be capped when not working on them. Maybe at one time water leaked into equipment thru an open conduit

 

[Carultch]

Some facilities have specs that require all conduit runs to be capped when not working on them. Maybe at one time water leaked into equipment thru an open conduit

A standard EMT setscrew fitting wouldn't help that issue. Those connectors aren't even intended to be water tight.

 

[Little Bill]

It's the conduit version of wearing a mask!

 

[LarryFine]

It looks like someone added an erroneous manufacturing step to the machining software.

 

[Jraef]

Keeps the critters out...

I HATE it when I find a snake inside of an enclosure because it found its way in through a conduit.

 

[480sparky]

A standard EMT setscrew fitting wouldn't help that issue. Those connectors aren't even intended to be water tight.

Even if water did get in, the other set-screw couplers would let it dribble back out.

 

[kwired]

I used some of those once in a school building, eliminated what once was the service switchboard at back of stage in the gym. Had some now abandoned feeder raceways that entered the bottom and were embedded in the concrete floor. Figured we needed to plug those or many objects were likely to get lost down those over time. Happened to remember seeing those at a big box and figured they would work great and would look like something intended for the purpose as well plus less cost than a connector, rigid coupling and a pipe plug.

There are PVC caps available also for PVC conduits.