INCH-POUND
A-A-50563B
10 September 2013
SUPERSEDING A-A-50563A
26 June 2003
COMMERCIAL ITEM DESCRIPTION
CONDUIT OUTLET BOXES, BODIES, AND ENTRANCE CAPS, ELECTRICAL: CAST METAL
The General Services Administration has authorized the use of this commercial item description for all federal agencies.
1. SCOPE. This commercial item description (CID) establishes the government acquisition requirements for cast metal conduit outlet boxes, bodies, and entrance caps for use with threaded and threadless rigid conduit, intermediate metallic conduit, and electrical metallic conduit.
Outlet boxes may be used as wire outlets or as mountings for lamp holders, rosettes, switches, convenience outlets, to enclose wire splices, for mounting or enclosing surface wiring offsets,
pull boxes, and other functions in conduit runs. Entrance caps provide a weather resistant service entrance for wires.
2. CLASSIFICATION. The conduit boxes, bodies, and entrance caps and outlets and devices shall be of the following types, designs, forms, styles, and hub sizes specified below:
2.1 Types. The outlet boxes and entrance caps shall be one of the following types (see 7.3(b)):
Type I - Conduit bodies that are essentially an enlarged section of conduit with hubs and access openings
Type II - Rectangular base general purpose conduit outlet boxes for wiring devices
Type III - Round base general purpose conduit boxes with threaded conduit hubs
Type IV - Round base weather resistant conduit outlet boxes, with threaded conduit hubs, for exposed installation
Type V - Round base explosion proof, dust-ignition-proof, and weather resistant conduit outlet boxes with threaded conduit hubs
Type VI - Entrance caps, electrical
Beneficial comments, recommendations, additions, deletions, clarifications, etc. and any data that may improve this document should be sent to: STDZNMGT@dla.mil or Defense Logistics Agency - Aviation, ATTN: VEB, 8000 Jefferson Davis Highway, Richmond, VA 23297-5616. Since contact information can change, you may want to verify the currency of this address information using the ASSIST database at https://assist.dla.mil/.
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