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Post 9 made on Tuesday September 19, 2017 at 17:00
PHSJason
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On September 19, 2017 at 00:25, Audiophiliac said...
How does water get in the conduit? Unglued or poorly glued junctions? Does the glue eventually fail? Is the glue permeable? Is the conduit permeable? I always assumed schedule 80 with properly glued junctions were water tight. Wrong?

We do not deal with this often so I am just throwing curiosity out there.

We live in what is considered a 'desert' due to limited annual rainfall. In this last case, this was the amount of water that could be vacuumed out of a 1" conduit no more than 30' in length before it went up a wall.
[Link: photos.app.goo.gl]

As you can see, any cable that sits in this for a period of time will fail and they will look like this:
[Link: photos.app.goo.gl]


Edited to fix photos

Last edited by PHSJason on September 20, 2017 17:07.


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