Box fil lfor 1/2 Emt???

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jmargolis79 said:
What's the box fill for 1/2 emt? Is this a code violation. Anybody know how it was done?
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Box fill: none AFAIK.

How it was done: a short piece of EMT would fit under the
screws I think.

Why was this done? So a blank cover plate could go
over the wiring?
 
Looks like a threaded coupling was cut in half then you thread the two inside set screw connectors into the halfs then you cut the emt ,..cut it a little shy of tight so it has some play inside the connectors,.. then slide the contraption into the box and thread the outside emt connectors into the contraption , oh yeah you will have to cut off half of the threads on all connectors for this to work:-? :grin:

Why ?,, the inspector did not like the pipe in front of the box :-?
 
Jim W in Tampa said:
Only reason for the why part is plans in future to change something.Never have i seen anything like it.
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How could you access the conductors, if you pulled through that mess? I say that this is a joke photo. :-?
 
They wanted to remove the unsightly box from the conduit run so they had to couple the two ends with all that crap. That looked way too ugly so they covered up their coupling job with a box.:grin:
 
jmargolis
When I first read the title to your post, I was saying to myself, here is another crackpot.
The picture tells it all...I love it!!!:cool:

I would measure the box the from the side of the EMT and determine the new size, then one could go to Article 314 to determine the number of conductors for box fill.
 
If I had to venture a guess, it would be that someone intends to fool an inspector into believing that they installed a pull-box in a more-than-four-90's conduit run.
 
WOW

now that was the first realistic answer.... what a lot of trouble to go to....

that probably took about 25 minutes to put together..
 
It's not a joke photo. It was above a hard lid that used to be exposed. There was only 20 feet of pipe on the one side of the box, i think someone didn't know how to remove the anchors.
 
The couplings inside the box look alot like PART of a wiremold adapter. Maybe the box is for low volte wiring and they wanted to route high voltage through it for god only knows what reason. If so, they needed a barrier and the EMT provided it. I'm sure whatever it's purpode really is, there was a better way to accomplish the goal.
 
LarryFine said:
If I had to venture a guess, it would be that someone intends to fool an inspector into believing that they installed a pull-box in a more-than-four-90's conduit run.
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Thinking out of the box Larry,....nice, but why the ****? Were they a foot short on the entire pull and couldn't afford the extra 12" in the PB:-?

That should be a post card with your closest competitors stamp on it:grin:
 
Jljohnson said:
Maybe the box is for low volte wiring and they wanted to route high voltage through it for god only knows what reason. If so, they needed a barrier and the EMT provided it. I'm sure whatever it's purpode really is, there was a better way to accomplish the goal.
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I have seem this type of installation before and it was for running different classes of wiring through the same box. Iwill say I have never seen it in a 4 square box
 
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