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Re: Secondary Material, Performance and Price



Original poster: "david baehr" <dfb25@xxxxxxxxxxx>


also check with irrigation companys, I use the thin wall stuff for my coils.......

>
>At 10:57 AM 12/4/2005, you wrote:
>>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.
>>
>>