M C bending

[jimwalker]

Yesterday a foreman told be we can't bend M C more than 360 degrees.I looked at him funny and asked him where he found this code.He says it was in an illustration in his handbook.I went and got my code book out of truck and handed it to him.We could not find anything other than the radius rule.Is this in the handbook ? and if so i believe its not code but just an interpretation

 

[ryan_618]

Re: M C bending

The 360 degree stipulation applies to raceways, not cables.

 

[jimwalker]

Re: M C bending

That is what i told him.At first he wanted to call MC flex.I exsplained to him that mc is not flex and showed him section on mc.I just wanted to be sure about this.Thanks

[ October 01, 2005, 12:56 PM: Message edited by: jimwalker ]

 

[iwire]

Re: M C bending

Jim I think you nailed it, the illustration is for flexible metal conduit not MC cable.

The foreman is wrong.

 

[jimwalker]

Re: M C bending

I will print this for him.He is a good man ,just confused on this issue.

 

[electricman2]

Re: M C bending

MC is hard enough to pull wires through now without more bends.

 

[jimwalker]

Re: M C bending

Even hard to pull them back out

 

[paul]

Re: M C bending

Any electrician worth a plug nickel knows that the 360 bend rule only applies to AC and UF cables, not MC. Sheeeesh. :roll:

 

[iwire]

Re: M C bending

Originally posted by paul:
Any electrician worth a plug nickel knows that the 360 bend rule only applies to AC and UF cables, not MC. Sheeeesh. :roll:

[ October 02, 2005, 11:36 AM: Message edited by: iwire ]