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07-27-2009, 11:22 PM
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I wore my Electrician Talk shirt to the supply house today. I walked in and those clowns were in awe. I did a flying jump kick over the counter, order myself a master bundle of 4" rigid, leaped into the warehouse with a Jet Li-style Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Crane levitation, picked up my master bundle on one shoulder, and did one handed backward hand springs all the way to the truck.
Had all the pipe bitch-slapped into place by 11:30 am, and that's counting lunch and break. You guys should wear them everyday! Thanks, Nathan 
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07-27-2009, 11:25 PM
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Originally Posted by InPhase277
I wore my Electrician Talk shirt to the supply house today. I walked in and those clowns were in awe. I did a flying jump kick over the counter, order myself a master bundle of 4" rigid, leaped into the warehouse with a Jet Li-style Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Crane levitation, picked up my master bundle on one shoulder, and did one handed backward hand springs all the way to the truck.
Had all the pipe bitch-slapped into place by 11:30 am, and that's counting lunch and break. You guys should wear them everyday! Thanks, Nathan |
Gee. That makes me feel bad. All I did today was wire a missile launch site and it's attendant nuclear power plant.
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07-28-2009, 05:17 PM
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That's freakin' hilarious. Thanks for the laugh.
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07-28-2009, 05:48 PM
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Oh yeah a master bundle over your shoulder, uh-huh... 4" no less!
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07-28-2009, 05:50 PM
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Oh yeah a master bundle over your shoulder, uh-huh... 4" no less!
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I carry one piece of 4" from the store to the truck and I'm tuckered.
I had to carry 6 or 8 pieces (with help) up a ship's ladder stairway to the roof of a JC Penny's store one time. That was no fun at all. That's the biggest RMC I've ever worked with. Luckily, none of it needed cut, threaded, or bent.
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07-28-2009, 06:07 PM
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Originally Posted by MDShunk
I carry one piece of 4" from the store to the truck and I'm tuckered.
I had to carry 6 or 8 pieces (with help) up a ship's ladder stairway to the roof of a JC Penny's store one time. That was no fun at all. That's the biggest RMC I've ever worked with. Luckily, none of it needed cut, threaded, or bent.
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4” RMC is 100 lbs a stick, that would be no fun. I hate it when you are trying to put a stick in the threader and the jaws aren't open quite far enough. 
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07-28-2009, 06:41 PM
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Wow looks like I am really missing out having never done a project with 4" RMC.
If I ever get one I'll be sure to get my T-Shirt first.
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07-28-2009, 07:36 PM
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Originally Posted by InPhase277
I wore my Electrician Talk shirt to the supply house today. I walked in and those clowns were in awe. I did a flying jump kick over the counter, order myself a master bundle of 4" rigid, leaped into the warehouse with a Jet Li-style Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Crane levitation, picked up my master bundle on one shoulder, and did one handed backward hand springs all the way to the truck.
Had all the pipe bitch-slapped into place by 11:30 am, and that's counting lunch and break. You guys should wear them everyday! Thanks, Nathan |
I wasn't aware that the T-shirts had super powers! Can't wait to get mine! I might be able to carry 2 sticks of 1/2" EMT at once - whoohoo!!
Thanks for the laugh 277
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07-28-2009, 08:34 PM
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well that t shirt might have helped when i put in 6 inch rgc for Level 3 Communications in 20' lenghts for fibre optic interduct a few years back
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07-28-2009, 08:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Magnettica
Oh yeah a master bundle over your shoulder, uh-huh... 4" no less!
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Well, yes it may sound a little hard to believe, but I wouldn't have believed it either when I had but a little over 600 posts. 
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07-28-2009, 10:32 PM
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A master bundle is 25 bundles of 100' each correct?
I had a damn good teacher in school who estimated for one of the big electrical outfits around here otherwise I'd have no idea what a master bundle was.
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07-28-2009, 11:12 PM
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[quote=[COLOR=Red]Magnettica;104455]A master bundle is 25 bundles of 100' each correct? [/color]
A master bundle is about a ton of metallic conduit regardless of trade size.
4" RMC is 20 sticks, 2060 lbs with couplings.
Your instructor must have been referring to 1/2 RMC, it is 25 bundles of 100' and weights 2050 lbs.
Just for fun 1/2 EMT is 7000’ 2100 lbs. 
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07-29-2009, 12:00 PM
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[quote=drsparky;104459]
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Originally Posted by [COLOR=Red
Magnettica;104455]A master bundle is 25 bundles of 100' each correct? [/color]
A master bundle is about a ton of metallic conduit regardless of trade size.
4" RMC is 20 sticks, 2060 lbs with couplings.
Your instructor must have been referring to 1/2 RMC, it is 25 bundles of 100' and weights 2050 lbs.
Just for fun 1/2 EMT is 7000’ 2100 lbs. |
Did you used to work at a supply house?
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07-29-2009, 12:09 PM
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Absolutely pathetic. I had a master bundle of 6" RMC on one shoulder, and a master bundle of 4" EMT on the other. Although I cheated a bit...I layered two E-T.com shirts.
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07-29-2009, 12:43 PM
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4” RMC is 100 lbs a stick, that would be no fun. I hate it when you are trying to put a stick in the threader and the jaws aren't open quite far enough. |
it's 88 pounds not 100
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07-29-2009, 01:19 PM
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[quote=Magnettica;104493]
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Did you used to work at a supply house?
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No never worked in a supply house, would have to order it on big jobs. I sill have a few catalogs from the conduit vendors in my bookshelf. When a supply truck would come in with few master bundles the question of weight would always come up. Knowing the weight is also helpful for planning pipe racks.
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07-29-2009, 01:31 PM
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Originally Posted by mcclary's electrical
it's 88 pounds not 100
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If it's 88, it might as well be 100. (if I'm the guy carrying it, that is)
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07-29-2009, 01:32 PM
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it's 88 pounds not 100
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3 1/2 RMC is 88 lbs, 4" is 103 lbs per 10' with coupling. I got my figures out of the catalog. I google conduit weight I found this as a general guide. http://www.mc2-ice.com/support/estre...it_weight.html
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