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Re: Secondary Material, Performance and Price



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.




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