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Bends are made in PVC conduit using a tool known as a heat gun or a heat blanket. If you want to make make accurate and aesthetically pleasing bends without distorting the pipe, the PVC conduit must be heated thoroughly - inside and out. This is achieved using a "heater box," or a "heater blanket." Greenlee tools makes both, specifically for working with PVC conduit. Also available are plugs for plugging the ends of the PVC lengths to be bent, for keeping heat trapped inside the pipe and speeding up the heating process.
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What are the main principles concerning conduit bodies?
Conduit bodies are used to provide pulling access in a run of conduit, to conserve space where a full size bend radius would be impractical, to allow more bends to be made in a section of conduit or to split a conduit path into multiple directions.
Can multiple feeders be in same conduit?
Yes they can. If the feeders are of different sizes, then a conduit fill calculation must be made to ascertain that the conduit does not become overfilled. Cross sectional areas of the conductors are found and it is then determined what the conduit cross sectional fill will allow.
What color should a conduit body be?
Conduit Bodies are usually grey or silver in color. They are made of metal, fiber, plastic or fixed clay. It is an electrical tubing used for protection and routing of electrical wiring.
What are all the materials used in making PVC conduit pipes?
Poly Vinyl Chloride is made from two main ingredients. These ingredients are chlorine and ethylene both of which are needed to make PVC conduit . UV inhibitors are also added to the ingredients to prevent degradation from exposure to the sun's rays.
What particle was found using a cathode ray tube?
British scientist Sir Joseph J. Thomson discovered in 1897 that cathode rays were made up of what are now known as electrons.
