Raceway or Not?

[Barndog]

Raceway. An enclosed channel of metal or nonmetallic materials designed expressly for holding wires, cables, or busbars

MC/AC isn't designed to hold wires. There's no room left in there.

Whats in it then????????????? i thought they were wires.

 

[mjf]

Raceway. An enclosed channel of metal or nonmetallic materials designed expressly for holding wires, cables, or busbars

Hmmmmm.......

AC/MC

--- An enclosed channel of metal or nonmetallic materials-----check

--- designed expressly for holding wires -----------------check


What is it expressly designed for if not to hold wires??
It doesn't say expressly designed to have wires/cables or busbars laid in or pulled through-------it says expressly designed to hold wires.


Just my silly thoughts.

 

[K8MHZ]

OK,

If the sheath of clad cable can be considered flexible metal conduit, can the sheath of Romex be considered flexible non-metallic conduit?

 

[BucketofAmps]

Raceway. An enclosed channel of metal or nonmetallic materials designed expressly for holding wires, cables, or busbars

Hmmmmm.......

AC/MC

--- An enclosed channel of metal or nonmetallic materials-----check

--- designed expressly for holding wires -----------------check


What is it expressly designed for if not to hold wires??
It doesn't say expressly designed to have wires/cables or busbars laid in or pulled through-------it says expressly designed to hold wires.


Just my silly thoughts.

Yes, I agree. The ac/mc is doing exactly what the definition specifies. The ac/mc just has the conductors already installed.....in essence: I do believe it to be a raceway.

 

[gadfly56]

The head-scratch factor on this was high enough that I decided to start a poll on it. Mods, feel free to change the poll view to "public"; I don't know how to edit my own poll.

 

[gadfly56]

Whoops! Meant NEC 2008. Got fire alarm on the brain today.

 

[Chamuit]

So are we saying that you can take a piece of MC cable and pull out the conductors and use it as a raceway by pulling in different condcutors?

Done it.

 

[Dennis Alwon]

Look at the definition of conduits like emt, rmc, etc-- In the definition it states raceway. Now look at mc-- sorry it is not a raceway, iMO

 

[Hendrix]

OK,

If the sheath of clad cable can be considered flexible metal conduit, can the sheath of Romex be considered flexible non-metallic conduit?

Sure, you can pull the wire out and run your own in the sheath:grin: