Original poster: Terry Fritz <vardin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Hi Curt,Most "normal people" don't use 8" PVC. But it is common and dirt cheap if you ask plumbers and contractors who throw hundreds/thousands of scrap pieces away every year... Get a good idea of what you are looking for and start calling around. I bet someone will be happy to pull some out of the trash to sell you ;-))) Construction worker friends or just wandering around a big construction site and asking usually works... Electrical contractors also tend to have plenty of pipe laying around for special stuff...
City water and sewer folks probably throw a few truck loads of odd sections away every month too...
If you do have to buy it, you need to go to real contractor / heavy construction type suppliers. They may cut it to length for you or just give you a good part of a damaged pipe free...
Once the pipe is cut to say 5 feet, it is often "just trash" they would otherwise have to pay to have hauled off... Be careful, they may convince you to take a carload home with you and come back for more :o))
Cheers,
Terry
At 10:57 AM 12/4/2005, you wrote:
Yesterday I naively went out to home depot to buy a chunk of 8" schedule 80 PVC for a secondary coil. I never considered that they wouldn't carry it. When I go home I did some searching and found that Mcmaster.com sells it in 5' lengths for $89. Mcmaster also sells 8" Cast acrylic tubes for $192 which doesn't seem all that much more considering the good characteristics I've heard about acrylic (doesn't trap moisture, higher Q, etc.) So my question is, how much SHOULD I expect to pay for a PVC pipe (I suspect Mcmaster is high) and would it be worth the extra $$$ just to go forward with the acrylic? Thanks, Curt. __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com