I wanted to salvage about 70 ft. of new #2 aluminum electrical cable as pictured, 4 conductors, from the conduit it occupies in my building (salvage conduit too.) It has never been energized, was installed long ago then the occupant wasn’t able to get another meter installed so it could be used (no space left in electric room, estimates for whole job were low 5-figures.) Anyway, conduit looks like 2” and the 4 conductors have ample room to rattle around in there. Conduit runs 15’ to ceiling, one 16” radius bend, 40’ horizontal along ceiling, another 16” radius bend, then final 15’ down. Worker I asked to pull it says it’ll take two man- days to do, conduit has to be pulled off cable one 10’ section at a time, he has to be forklifted to ceiling to do that part, etc etc. He says #2 aluminum cable isn’t flexible enough to pull out of the conduit, whoever installed it must have had to fit each section of conduit over the super-stiff cable one section at a time. Yes it has occurred to me that it may be easier than he says, he may just not want to do it. If it is a 2 m.d. job, not cost-effective to do, way too expensive, I’ll just buy new for what I was going to use it for.
Do u think he’s exaggerating on the size of the job?
Do u think he’s exaggerating on the size of the job?