The previous owner left eight 10' sections of 3/4" EMT, but he drilled holes through every one of them (a hole every 18-24" or so). Can this still be used to route wire indoors?
Wiring – Can EMT conduit have holes
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NO! Regular couplings, those in the first image, are NOT pull points. Pull points are conduit bodies or boxes, or even those silly little elbows in the second image.
My suggestion would be to install a conduit body at strategic locations. For your installation you really only need one.
Conduit bodies:
You want a PVC-to-threads adapter as depicted below (presumably 3/4" to match the size of the knockouts on your box, with a 1" to 3/4" PVC reducer used to adapt the LB's 1" to the adapter's 3/4").
You then use PVC from the LB to the adapter/reducer pair, and a locknut to hold the adapter to the box.
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Congratulations. You have a bunch of 18-24" chunks of 3/4" conduit. You do not have 10 foot chunks of conduit. Unless you have mechanical plans (I've seen folks do small greenhouses with conduit) might as well cut them at the holes.