Taniith
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Our front of house hanging positions are steel pipes threaded into standard plumbing elbows and flanges and bolted to the building's beams (see pictures). They've been up there for who knows how many decades.
Recently, the threads on one of these failed during a light hang, such that the weight of the fixtures was able to very slowly spin the pipe forward inside the two elbows. We've stopped using it until we get around to replacing it, but I'm wondering if anyone has experience with the so-called "structural" pipe fittings (like this http://bmisupply.com/ProductDetail/053002G8 and this https://www.easyfit.com/catalog/category/easyfit_fittings ? If the set-screws are properly torqued, would those be sufficient? Cutting pipe is easy enough, but it would be great if we don't have to deal with threading it.
Their tables seem to suggest that they're designed for far more than we'll ever put on them (https://www.easyfit.com/resources/beam_load_table_pounds), but it never hurts to get a sanity check.
Recently, the threads on one of these failed during a light hang, such that the weight of the fixtures was able to very slowly spin the pipe forward inside the two elbows. We've stopped using it until we get around to replacing it, but I'm wondering if anyone has experience with the so-called "structural" pipe fittings (like this http://bmisupply.com/ProductDetail/053002G8 and this https://www.easyfit.com/catalog/category/easyfit_fittings ? If the set-screws are properly torqued, would those be sufficient? Cutting pipe is easy enough, but it would be great if we don't have to deal with threading it.
Their tables seem to suggest that they're designed for far more than we'll ever put on them (https://www.easyfit.com/resources/beam_load_table_pounds), but it never hurts to get a sanity check.
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