Conduit ****

[LeeH]

Working in a factory which has a spec of conduit. Up to 50mm conduits all over the place with very little forms of other containment.

No idea why, but a nice steady job for the outfit doing it all.

 

[Daveash123]

This is a food factory, they have to wash down everything. Every panel was IP rated. Things could grow between cables on tray

 

[richy3333]

Is that in a cereal factory, spent a few years installing 2 inch tube. Use hydraulic bender and pipe threader with conduit dies. Had to measure the piston length to keep all the bends the same.
You can get 70 X 1.5 singles down 1 tube

Near Trafford Dave?

 

[ElectroChem]

Very swish. My boss and I were in a similar place last week, but they had traywork above the ceiling with individual conduit drops for machines.

 

[davesparks]

You would think there would be a much easier alternative that all that pipe work, I wonder why it wasn't done with tray or something.

Yes there is always an easier alternative, but that doesn't make it better or even suitable.

I'm sure someone had a very good reason for spending goodness only knows how long doing that pipework when they could have done it in trunking in maybe a quarter of the time.
Maybe it needs the impact resistance or good screening of each bunch of cables that conduit provides?

 

[LeeH]

Think it's mainly Hygiene Dave, it's a dry dusty environment.

 

[Daveash123]

Near Trafford Dave?

Yes, the one with the big K. was there from 1987 up to about 1995 then occasional visits back for specific production line upgrades

 

[uksparks]

Its certainly an impressive bit of work, i can imagine how long it took and how fiddly it would have been!

 

[snowhead]

Trunking and tray = Rat runs.

 

[davesparks]

Trunking and tray = Rat runs.

That makes sense

But the little nuggets will be just as happening running along pipe