PVC electrical conduit same OD as PVC water pipes?

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PVC electrical conduit same OD as PVC water pipes?

Author: sum (FL)

I was installing a new Orbit sprinkler timer controller and needed to run wires outside. I ran out of the gray colored 1/2" PVC electrical conduits, just needed another 8" piece.

I had a whole bunch of 1/2" SCH 40 pipes left over from the sprinkler line install, and a bunch of SCH 80 risers.

Didn't want to make another trip to get a new 10' PVC electrical conduit to cut off an 8" piece.

I tried the white SCH 40 pipes into the grey colored PVC electrical couplings and it fitted just right. I know white PVC is going to look confusing so probably a bad idea, but the gray color SCH 80 risers could work...so I cut a 8" piece and used it.

Is that OK or did I commit some unforgivable sin?

Re: PVC electrical conduit same OD as PVC water pipes?
Author: bernabeu (SC) ...you will forever burn in the lowest depth of Hades... seriously, you are good to go ============================================== "Measure Twice & Cut Once" - Retired U.A. Local 1 & 638
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Re: PVC electrical conduit same OD as PVC water pipes?
Author: mwr (IN) Its against the National Electric Code. Edited 1 times.
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Re: PVC electrical conduit same OD as PVC water pipes?
Author: packy (MA) paint the pipes..
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Re: PVC electrical conduit same OD as PVC water pipes?
Author: sum (FL) I used the gray color SCH80 1/2" riser so it's essentially the same color.
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Re: PVC electrical conduit same OD as PVC water pipes?
Author: m & m (MD) We won't tell. Promise.
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Re: PVC electrical conduit same OD as PVC water pipes?
Author: hj (AZ) I guess that will also mean you will not report me for using conduit "long radius" elbows for a water service line.
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Re: PVC electrical conduit same OD as PVC water pipes?
Author: sum (FL) No, but I will report you and Packy for not deburring PVC pipes!
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Author: hj (AZ) WE deburr them, but NOT with a tool. We rotate the cutoff piece inside the one we are going to use.
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Re: PVC electrical conduit same OD as PVC water pipes?
Author: sum (FL) I mean chamferring the pipe so that it is 45 degrees through the thickness of the pipe such that it fits into the 45 bevel inside the hub to make a SUPER-PERFECT joint.
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Re: PVC electrical conduit same OD as PVC water pipes?
Author: m & m (MD) If by deburring you mean rolling the PVC pipe edge between thumb and side of forefinger, why, yes, I do.
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Re: PVC electrical conduit same OD as PVC water pipes?
Author: hj (AZ) Yeah, that's going to happen 100 times a day. I guess I have NEVER looked inside a PVC fitting to see it it is REALLY chamfered 45 degrees, (but I doubt it). Deburring only removes the ridge around the cut, it does NOT machine the end of the pipe. Edited 1 times.
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Re: PVC electrical conduit same OD as PVC water pipes?
Author: hj (AZ) He wants you to cut the end of the pipe on a precise 45 degree angle, and our fingers cannot do that.
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Re: PVC electrical conduit same OD as PVC water pipes?
Author: bernabeu (SC) ever hear the term: smooth integral bore I saw one in a small town called Utopia! ============================================== "Measure Twice & Cut Once" - Retired U.A. Local 1 & 638
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Re: PVC electrical conduit same OD as PVC water pipes?
Author: hj (AZ) Also, Eden, Nirvana, and Washington D.C.
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Re: PVC electrical conduit same OD as PVC water pipes?
Author: bernabeu (SC) ============================================== "Measure Twice & Cut Once" - Retired U.A. Local 1 & 638
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