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EMT Electrical Conduit!!!!!!!!

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Subject: EMT Electrical Conduit!!!!!!!!
From: nx1g@top.monad.net (Craig Clark)
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 15:31:17 -0500
At 07:48 AM 10/7/96 -0600, you wrote:
>At 11:25 PM 10/6/96 -0400, you wrote:
>>Fellows:     PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!!  DO NOT USE EMT FOR TOWER 
>>WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>>If you must be "Cheap" with your mast material please use at least the 
>>Chain link fencing posts or top rails, at least this stuff is "Designed" 
>>to be used outdoors.  A trip up the tower to remove even a vertical that 
>>is attached to a bent piece of mast material is no fun!!
>>
>>Reagrds................. Jack
>
>
>
>Fellows:     PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!!  DO NOT USE CHAIN LINK
>FENCE FOR TOWER WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>
>I would even be very suspicious of chain link fence toprail!  I have seen some
>of the stuff that is not tubing at all--just a piece of flat stock that is
>rolledinto a cylinder and then galavanized. 

OK. How about schedule 80 pipe?
                        Craig Clark
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