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Nice pipe work, but it's looks like poor layout to have an entire rack running parallel above a block wall.

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cschmid said:
Ithikit is very nice and would be interested in the programable bender they are using..It is nice to see some cash flow in a tight economy..
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All of those bends can easily be made with the Greenlee #881 table bender shown in post #31. No fancy programming necessary. :grin:
 
infinity said:
All of those bends can easily be made with the Greenlee #881 table bender shown in post #31. No fancy programming necessary. :grin:
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I agree with that to an extent, but at the speed that machine bends at and the amount off bends I have seen so far..things do not added up time wise.I would bet it was pretty close to full time just bending conduit..I do understand they would have more then one bender as well..I just do not see multiple electricians making bends as clean as them are..and to do production bending you would need a nicer bender.
 
cschmid said:
I agree with that to an extent, but at the speed that machine bends at and the amount off bends I have seen so far..things do not added up time wise.I would bet it was pretty close to full time just bending conduit..I do understand they would have more then one bender as well..I just do not see multiple electricians making bends as clean as them are..and to do production bending you would need a nicer bender.
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Yeah, multiple benders are a must for this type of work if you're looking for production. For one, changing the shoes and follow bars for different conduit sizes is somewhat time consuming.

It's also nice to have the bender(s) close to the area where the pipe is being installed. I have seen an 881 on wheels which was an excellent setup since you can move it along as the pipe goes in.
 
Marc,
"I've got a nickel that says Ron's firm is involved in that job."

So many of our projects look similar, I'm not really sure which site this is. In reality, many infrastructure areas of datacenters/trading floors look this way, no matter who did the CD's, as with fast paced projects, the EC can bend pipe with more flexibility than the ordering of busway as stuff gets put in as quickly as possible. The client sometimes have deadline penalties, and the sooner they open the room for business the faster they owner makes $$$.
 
we use multiple benders, but I find it hard to do larger jobs and have such uniformity with multiple member of the team bending pipe. That is why I am curious..because the specs were emailed after every set of bends so I assume one layer was bent and the next layer was designed and the specs sent over and bent and so on..that is a robust way of bending pipes and a very good working relationship with ones engineering firm..
 
Pierre C Belarge said:
I have an inspector in one of my classes from another territory. He is inspecting a very large commercial project. He invited me to come an see the project.

There is:
1. between 8 & 9 miles of 4inch EMT installed so far.
2. Somewhere around 43 miles of - 700Kcmil aluminum conductors installed - a special order from SouthWire, it is colored conductors...
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Impressive installation, Pierre. Thanks for posting the pictures.
All these pipes remind me a bit of the exhaust manifold on my 12-pot Jag.
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On a slightly more serious note, I don't see conduit used very often in UK.
Mostly steel wire armoured is used in commercial and industrial installations.
 
cschmid said:
That is why I am curious..because the specs were emailed after every set of bends so I assume one layer was bent and the next layer was designed and the specs sent over and bent and so on..that is a robust way of bending pipes and a very good working relationship with ones engineering firm..
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Remember, I was a guest at this site. From what I remember, the guy who is sending the measurements via cad is doing this all from "asbuilts" of the progress of the work. I hear he is very good and has saved the company a ton of money in regards to wasted pipe.




It is pretty cool to see how many hits this thread has. I have pictures of work equally as bad as this work is good. :wink:

I am also on a large project (many acres and large buildingS and parking structures. I have to be there every other day for trench inspections. I will show some of those pictures too if you are interested.
 
WOW,.. WOWIE WOWIE WOW WOW,... Holy smoly that is alot O' pipe,... Is any one watching the degrees of bend ,..not that I saw any violations ,.just that some of those pictures showed a fairly large number of degrees in a what looked like a short distance.
 
elevation changes!

elevation changes!

M. D. said:
WOW,.. WOWIE WOWIE WOW WOW,... Holy smoly that is alot O' pipe,... Is any one watching the degrees of bend ,..not that I saw any violations ,.just that some of those pictures showed a fairly large number of degrees in a what looked like a short distance.
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Yeah! Quite a few elevation changes in a short run!!:smile:
 
Pierre C Belarge said:
Remember, I was a guest at this site. From what I remember, the guy who is sending the measurements via cad is doing this all from "asbuilts" of the progress of the work. I hear he is very good and has saved the company a ton of money in regards to wasted pipe.




It is pretty cool to see how many hits this thread has. I have pictures of work equally as bad as this work is good. :wink:

I am also on a large project (many acres and large buildingS and parking structures. I have to be there every other day for trench inspections. I will show some of those pictures too if you are interested.
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I know and it looks like a nice invite to check out..I appreciate every thing so far and thank you..I would say these guys are doing a good job..
 
I hope they're keeping track of where which pipe goes where.;)

"OK Tom, I'm going to push the fishtape in, you see if you can find where it comes out.":grin:
 
Cow said:
I hope they're keeping track of where which pipe goes where.;)

"OK Tom, I'm going to push the fishtape in, you see if you can find where it comes out.":grin:
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I'm certain there are thousands of fish tapes welded to the inside of conduits nation wide from "Tom" letting the fish tape go a little to far into a live panel :D
 
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