Re: Secondary Material, Performance and Price

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Original poster: Esondrmn@xxxxxxx 

In a message dated 12/4/2005 5:57:49 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
Original poster: "C. Sibley" <a37chevy@xxxxxxxxx>

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.

Curt,

I would look up commercial plumbing distributors in the yellow 
pages.  Sometimes you can get these guys to sell small pieces to you 
that would just otherwise be scrap to them.  Many years ago, I bought 
some 6" dia pipe and end caps from one of those guys for my rolled poly caps.

Ed Sonderman