The worst ones are the ones with the rubber gasket. The fitting can not be tightened at all, like not even enough to get thru the paint. I am worried about bonding and structural integrity from having all these completely loose fittings.
Yes, the ones with the hard plastic gasket are still awful, but the ones with the soft rubber gasket are absolutely unbelievably atrocious. I am seriously in awe that UL passes those, I am nearly completely lost for words.
I won't use a raintight without a Myers hub where I wouldn't trust a regular compression connector. If I'm threading it into a hub, I'm not using a gasket, The American Fittings gaskets hold up well, at least over a few years, it the same gasket as their LFMC fittings, have put hundreds of those in, they are as nice as they get
I just throw away the gasket on jobs without inspection. Worried Ill get called on it if inspected though.
I am torn which route should be taken. On one hand I think the NEC route, as the rain tight stuff is not even necessary, as there are other code sections that already cover this (raceways required to drain, weep holes, wet location conductors, entries below live parts, etc). However if there is going to be a gasket, the product standard needs to have something that actually works, will not get destroyed by the sun, and allows the fitting to be tightened wrench tight. I think the only way to accomplish this would have the gasket be in a machined recess, kind of like an o-ring boss hydraulic fitting. But back to the nec, a TIA maybe the quickest way to address this as it is an emergency in my opinion with thousands of loose fittings being installed every day.
You will need a "body count" to get a TIA.
You didn't even need that to wind up with AFCI's everywhere.
That's because they could project the number of lives saved and fires prevented.
Base on data that is not really valid
You missed my sarcasm.
