1/2" SS EMT

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mgookin said:
I had suggested salt as a reason for the spec. Very common around here and I see OP is in a coastal state.
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Coastal state but in the piedmont area of the state. We can get sand. I believe I only need one bend but the architect does not want to see couplings. So..... the lights are 12' apart with a steel beam every 6'. We have to take 2- 10' sticks and cut them 6' so that the coupling lies in between this steel beam--- they will have the holes cut and apparently the space is large enough to hide the coupling. I wonder if they make the SS Emt 20' long. Probably can save some bucks since couplings are $20 bucks.
 
sounds like you need a weldor onsite to TIG weld the joints so you have no couplings.
 
Dennis Alwon said:
... I wonder if they make the SS Emt 20' long. ...
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The Calbrite website states "Any custom size available up to 20' in length"... for their SS IMC. Not noted on the SS EMT webpage. Given the cost, you may want to contact them directly and ask.
 
Smart $ said:
The Calbrite website states "Any custom size available up to 20' in length"... for their SS IMC. Not noted on the SS EMT webpage. Given the cost, you may want to contact them directly and ask.
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I don't think my supplier has an account with them but I will have it checked out. Thanks
 
GoldDigger said:
How do you avoid weld crud inside the pipe that could interfere with pulling wire?
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Experienced stainless piping welders for lines requiring sanitary conditions be met - typically for food processing industries have to do it for the product lines they weld together.
 
Dennis Alwon said:
Not only inside but the outside would not look the same either
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An orbital welder, easy peasy. Anyone doing sanitary fittings for food processing or high purity piping for semiconductor fabs could do this in their sleep.
 
Jon456 said:
I knew that from your earlier posts. My question was simply for argument's sake. I don't think welding EMT would be an approved method of joining the conduit.
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I realized that also. In fact I almost wrote that you can continue on for discussion but I was not going to get a welder. And I agree it may not be compliant. I see no reason to go to any more extreme than they already have.

I had to get Intertek in to test 60 fixture where all we did was change the transformers to a different brand. The problem was the new trany was not Listed but rather UL Recognized-- you know the backward R and a U. That means the item cannot be field installed without a third party test, so I installed them and paid Intertek $3000 to approve it. I then had to buy high temp. labels for 4 sconces that came from Italy. I needed about 12 labels but had to buy a box of 1000. They had to be sent overnight. Cost $140 for the labels and $100 to ship overnight. I printed them out on my pc and installed them in the fixture and Intertek was happy. The job is a money pit. Started at 2.5 million and is now over 5 million. The original cost of fixtures was about $250,000. Yes, this is a residence-- Crazy- the whole job is nutso
 
Dennis Alwon said:
I realized that also. In fact I almost wrote that you can continue on for discussion but I was not going to get a welder. And I agree it may not be compliant. I see no reason to go to any more extreme than they already have.

I had to get Intertek in to test 60 fixture where all we did was change the transformers to a different brand. The problem was the new trany was not Listed but rather UL Recognized-- you know the backward R and a U. That means the item cannot be field installed without a third party test, so I installed them and paid Intertek $3000 to approve it. I then had to buy high temp. labels for 4 sconces that came from Italy. I needed about 12 labels but had to buy a box of 1000. They had to be sent overnight. Cost $140 for the labels and $100 to ship overnight. I printed them out on my pc and installed them in the fixture and Intertek was happy. The job is a money pit. Started at 2.5 million and is now over 5 million. The original cost of fixtures was about $250,000. Yes, this is a residence-- Crazy- the whole job is nutso
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I sure hope you're not eating the difference on this project! :eek:hmy:
 
Dennis Alwon said:
T&M otherwise I wouldn't touch it. Btw the $5 million is not electrical. I bet we will be about $500,000
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Whew! It's funny, people with that kind of money seem to go one of two ways; squeeze every nickel, or "don't care, git 'er done". We have client who collects race cars. Like, Formula 1 and Grand Prix stuff. Has a 6-bay garage storing vehicles costing about 3-4X what my house did - each - and we put in an $80,000 clean agent suppression system to protect them. In a private home. Go figure.
 
Dennis Alwon said:
T&M otherwise I wouldn't touch it. Btw the $5 million is not electrical. I bet we will be about $500,000
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you mentioned this one a while ago.... when they care enough to spend the very most..... :p

well, any time you move past the engineer to a lighting consultant, and a colorist,
you might as well set a pail of money in the driveway, and set it on fire....

have they feng shui'd the place yet? i can sense a doorway that is blocking the flow
of qui, from way over here..... do they need a consultant? i can tune up their meridians,
so they have hot and cold running energy thru the entire structure.... my consultations
start at $33,683 + expenses. that number works well in the customers numerology,
as the exact digital representation of their state of consciousness.
 
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