Electrical so far ...

No wiring today unfortunately, but I got most of the conduit run. I was all over the place today. ADD! Seriously. Anyway. The sub panel is mounted, the ground rod is in, the conduit between the air conditioner and the sub panel is hooked back up, the conduit between the sub panel and the future home of the 520-R outlet is run.

The conduit between the breaker box / sub panel and the box where the feed comes from needs to be run, the box for the 520-R receptacle, and the wiring needs to be done in the a.m. A few clips for the 3/4" EMT need to be put up too.

This was my first shot at bending EMT. EMT is short for Electrical Metallic Tubing. There are two kinds of metal conduit that you most generally see EMT and Rigid. Rigid is like galvanized water pipe, except the plating is cleaner. EMT has a much thinner wall and can be bent with a hand bender. I bought a new one today.

This is one of those things you can rent but for only $40.00 to buy you are on the border of paying for it if you rent it. It's probably $10.00 a day or something plus your time and fuel and pain in the back side factor. I will use it again in the shop too. Besides, why pass up a good excuse to expand the tool collection? ;-)

Surprisingly I only goofed up one piece of EMT doing the bending. This was my first attempt at doing it ever, so I was pretty happy with that. I'll have to see if I can explain how that works in my next posting.

So, maybe tomorrow, or later today as the case seems to be, the kiln can be test fired.

Later,
John