Cutting Wireway

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I would like to use Type 1 Lay-in wireway (with hinged cover) to run my interconnection wires between two pieces of industrial equipment. The location where the wireway needs to enter each cabinet is fixed. I can use standard lengths of straight sections and a couple of 90 degree large radius elbows to accomplish this but I have a short length (about 10") in both my horizontal and in my vertical run that a standard length of wireway is not available. I have looked at a few of the manufacturers fittings but they did not look like they would work. Is it OK to cut one end of a standard piece of wireway so that I can achieve the non-standard lenght I need for the pieces described above?
 
Hoffman calls what you are looking a "box connector". For a NEMA-12 wireway it is a part# F22WB. Don't know about NEMA-1. You'll have to buy a section of wireway, cut it to length, and then install the box connector.
 
Thanks. My main concern was whether the wireway could be cut to length or not. I need to use 10 x 10 wireway to meet the 20% fill rating for the wire I will run in the wireway. Nema 12 (at least from Hoffman) looks like it goes up to 12 x 6. The Nema 1 is available in a 10 x 10. On the two pieces of equipment I plan to interconnect there is busbar that protrudes out of each cabinet and the cabinets are already sealed. I will have a metal enclosure attached to the roof of each cabinet to provide the required wire bending space. The wireway will be connected to these metal enclosures.
 
A bandsaw, combination square, a drill and a steady hand are your friends here....steady hand and bandsaw optional if you have a "banjo":

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