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Kajiimagi

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#1 I don't have a video of this , it was back before phones could take pics much less record video.
#2 when I described it to my new companies Safety guy he told me if we did that there he would 'fucking kill me'

Take a piece of emt/pvc and bend a slight bend in it, tape it with duct tape to the hose on an air compressor with a lot of rags for space.
Put the new thing in an electrical conduit that was too full of water or too far away to get a string in it. , put the string in the bend, and put a bag on the string (Not a 'rat' for you electricians) a bag like at the grocery store worked way best.
Put this conglomeration into the conduit and blow it thorough. They did make rigs like this with co2, but I'm talking about one with a 125 air compressor. The bend is to get the string in the pipe and to give the pressure somewhere to go if it's blocked.
But oh boy if it's not you get a fucking hurricane of water at the end, along with your string and that bag. I'm explaining it wrong but it 100% worked. This was in Myrtle Beach where every conduit in the ground was full of water.
 
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Kajiimagi said:
#1 I don't have a video of this , it was back before phones could take pics much less record video.
#2 when I described it to my new companies Safety guy he told me if we did that there he would 'fucking kill me'

Take a piece of emt/pvc and bend a slight bend in it, tape it with duct tape to the hose on an air compressor with a lot of rags for space.
Put the new thing in an electrical conduit that was too full of water or too far away to get a string in it. , put the string in the bend, and put a bag on the string (Not a 'rat' for you electricians) a bag like at the grocery store worked way best.
Put this conglomeration into the conduit and blow it thorough. They did make rigs like this with co2, but I'm talking about one with a 125 air compressor. The bend is to get the string in the pipe and to give the pressure somewhere to go if it's blocked.
But oh boy if it's not you get a fucking hurricane of water at the end, along with your string and that bag. I'm explaining it wrong but it 100% worked. This was in Myrtle Beach where every conduit in the ground was full of water.
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I did it with a wet/dry vac if it was closed conduit. Air compressor and home depot bag for unsealed pipe like emt. A cat bell works great instead of the bag. But if there was any water in the pipe it is going to make a mess... probably on you.
 
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Maximis Velocity said:
I did it with a wet/dry vac if it was closed conduit. Air compressor and home depot bag for unsealed pipe like emt. A cat bell works great instead of the bag. But if there was any water in the pipe it is going to make a mess... probably on you.
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Oh yeah we always cleared the room out. One GC wasn't going to listen to me (ego thing , same owner owned the electric and GC company) and got soaked.
And we all laughed at him.
Really wish I had videos. We got up to some crazy shit. Wrong thread though.

One real quick one. Needed to move a live sales trailer service. Owner didn't want to mess with power co so I said no problem. Moved it with a backhoe (service strapped to the boom arm). I'm standing on a large ladder with live triplex cable wrapped around my arm to strap it up and the power co truck rides by....I waved and they kept on moving.
 
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