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SECTION 16110 <br />RACEWAYS <br />PARTI- GENERAL <br />1.01 SCOPE OF WORK <br />A. Furnish and install complete raceway systems as shown on the Drawings and as specified herein. <br />1.02 APPLICATIONS <br />A. Except where otherwise shown on the Drawings, or hereinafter specified, all exposed raceways <br />shall be rigid galvanized steel. Schedule 80 PVC may be used where exposed inside corrosive <br />areas. <br />B. Schedule 40 PVC shall be used underground, unless otherwise noted. Transitions to exposed, <br />outdoor locations shall be made using rigid galvanized steel conduit starting with the last 90 <br />degree elbow. <br />C. All conduit of a given type shall be the product of one manufacturer. <br />D. Combination expansion -deflection fittings shall be used where exposed or embedded conduits <br />cross structure expansion joints. <br />E. Liquidtight flexible metal conduit (between 18" and 36" in length) shall be used for all motor <br />terminations and other equipment where vibration is present. All flexible conduits shall use a <br />bonding wire unless a ground wire is included. <br />F. Unless otherwise hereinafter specified or shown on the Drawings, all boxes shall be metal. This <br />does not apply to buried work. <br />PART 2 - PRODUCTS <br />2.01 RIGID CONDUIT <br />A. Steel conduit shall be hot -dipped galvanized as manufactured by the Youngstown Sheet and Tube <br />Company, Allied Tube and Conduit Corporation, Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation, or <br />approved equal. <br />B. PVC conduit shall be rigid polyvinyl chloride type as manufactured by Carlon, an Indian Head <br />Company, Phillips Petroleum Company, Triangle Pipe and Tube Company, Inc., or approved <br />equal. <br />2.02 LIQUIDTIGHT, FLEXIBLE METAL CONDUIT, COUPLINGS AND FITTINGS <br />A. Liquidtight, flexible metal conduit shall be Sealtite, Type UA, manufactured by the Anaconda <br />Metal Hose Division, Anaconda American Brass Company, American Flexible Conduit <br />Company, Inc., Universal Metal Hose Company, or approved equal. <br />044572017 <br />16110 - 1 <br />