Thoughts on this 4x4 box

[James L]

4 Square L Shaped Junction Box, Right Angle with (14) 1/2 & 3/4 in. Knockouts

4IN Sq L-Shaped Rght Angle Box

www.garvinindustries.com

 

[texie]

Garvin is the goto place for oddball stuff like this. They have some good ideas.

 

[hbiss]

What's it good for??

-Hal

 

[Bluegrass Boy]

It could be handy on bar joist or perlings, and could give extra options on a difficult conduit run.

 

[Greentagger]

Would get you around a corner.

 

[oldsparky52]

What's it good for??

-Hal

I had the same question and did see this picture, but ... this looks like a solution w/out a real problem.

 

[electrofelon]

That's pretty cool. Not sure offhand when I would use it though. Yeah Could be nice for corners. I do hate LB's most of the time.

 

[infinity]

I had the same question and did see this picture, but ... this looks like a solution w/out a real problem.

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I'm guessing that this is a photo of the box going around a purlin?

 

[Fred B]

I'm guessing that this a a photo of the box going around a purlin?

Looks more like a steel tube beam. I could see this for as it appears to combine a 4sq jbox and a 4sq fixture box, and eliminating need to make up of box offsets. Cuts down on overall number of bends.

 

[kwired]

I had the same question and did see this picture, but ... this looks like a solution w/out a real problem.

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That would be a handy use, but I'd never have one on hand when the opportunity to use it came up.

 

[James L]

That would be a handy use, but I'd never have one on hand when the opportunity to use it came up.

That's what I thought. It's one of those things you could haul around for five years and never use it. Then one day you see it laying in your truck, and you decide to throw it in the garage because you haven't used it. Then the very next day, you need it. And you're an hour from home

 

[James L]

If I did more EMT work, I could see having a few on hand, just in case. I really like finding out new ideas for materials and fixtures. If you have a few oddballs in your repertoire if ideas, they can come in handy sometimes

 

[480sparky]

My first thought: "What the L?"

 

[oldsparky52]

I'm guessing that this is a photo of the box going around a purlin?

Correct, was the pic not visible to you?

 

[infinity]

Correct, was the pic not visible to you?

No I could see it but we don't work with purlins much so I wanted to know if that is what I was looking at.

 

[LarryFine]

What's it good for??

Avoiding having to bend 90s?

I does provide additional volume.

 

[hbiss]

Probably the idea came from somebody who did a lot of high bay fixtures in Butler buildings.

-Hal

 

[kwired]

Something I have seen but never used is 4x4 boxes 2-1/8 deep with the KO's spaced farther forward from the back of the box. Spaced enough to work better when mounting on corrugated sheet metal panels. Box can be attached in the low spots, and raceway can run straight into KO's. If you get sheet metal with 9 inch between corrugations there isn't enough room to offset and you about need to put spacers behind a standard box or only enter top/bottom and then offset/kick out before a 90 degree bend to go horizontally with the run.

 

[LarryFine]

It looks like a handy box melded with an extra-deep concrete box.

That triggered an image: a box for cinder block when you hit a web.

 

[Hv&Lv]

If I had one of those it would be exactly like the two purple wire nuts I own...

It would be a conversation piece, that’s about it..