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Go easy on me but I have a customer who wants a Paddle fan old worked in a building that has metal trusses .I told her this was imposable .Do any of you have any bright Ideas ?
 
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barbeer has a great idea but if you have never done or seen a fan installed in such a manor then have the customer call a commercial electricain to do the job. After he's finished you can come back and check out the install to give you ideas for the future.
 
Hey, Reiker makes a kit purposely for that. I put 5 of them in the lobby of an apartment building not too long ago. It's certainly possible. I think the kit for that application is about 40 bucks. Let me try to dig up a part number.
 
Here you go. Part number 15010. Good for wood or steel joists, and can hang down a few feet if necessary. Other manufacturers make a similar kit. Either that, or just build something out of Kindorf and bolt an octagon fan box on it.

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First time I heard it me and a electrician friend were working on a cart storage building. He commented we would need so many feet of Kindorf. I said "what?" I had always called it unistrut:wink:
 
Tradenames

Tradenames

Greenfield - Flexible metal conduit
Carflex - Liquidtight flexible nonmetalluic conduit
BX - AC cable
Redhead, etc.- Antishort bushing
Soap - Any number of wire lubricating products
Minnie - Conduit hanger (A trade name of Minerallac)
Myers Hub - A weatherproof hub made by alot more people than Myers
Xerox Copy - Is Xerox even still in business? (Do you remember mimeographs?)
Tyraps - A thousand different manufacturers of cable ties but only one Tyrap
A Burndy - A split bolt connector
Polaris Tap - Many manufacturers of multitap, insulated connectors
Kleenex - Bathroom tissue
Give me 10' of 2" PVC - 10' of rigid nonmetallic conduit (40 or 80?)
1900 box - A RACO # but a product made by many

I'm sure that here are many more tradenames that we all use and understand the meaning of regardless of the manufacturer.
Some are regional but most anywhere you go, you can talk a foreign language with other electricians.
 
dezwitinc said:
I'm sure that here are many more tradenames that we all use and understand the meaning of regardless of the manufacturer.
Some are regional but most anywhere you go, you can talk a foreign language with other electricians.
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Don't forget about Sheetrock and Jell-O!
 
Round robin, full boat, - three phases, nuetral and a ground for a pull.
11B - 4 11/16 box
Mule - Power threader good to 2"
Hog's head - threader attachment for 4" to 6", normally with an axle attachment to some kind of drive (seen some pretty creative).

Sock - device for sliding over the head to pull wire
Cut, thread, bend - how craftsmen of old did it
 
electricman2 said:
First time I heard it me and a electrician friend were working on a cart storage building. He commented we would need so many feet of Kindorf. I said "what?" I had always called it unistrut:wink:
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It's confusing because those are brand names. Unistrut, Powerstrut, Kindorf are all channel strut brand names. Unistrut and Powerstrut are generally silver in color, Kindorf is kind of a gold color.
 
JohnJ0906 said:
If I close my eyes, I can still remember the smell.... :wink:
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I usedto repair the "Thermofax" machines that made the originals for the mimeo machines. I'm afraid that dates me to ancient times!
 
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