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Russel I have never seen it done that way.

Scott I missed that at the chat and I agree an axe swing to SE cable will result in at least a little damage.

But consider 90% (a guess) of the services here are SE and with 20+ years in the trade I have only seen one time where an SE sustained damage that RMC would have prevented.

A cable TV installer drilled from inside the house to outside the house and hit the surface mounted SE. BOOM!

I am told he was fine and no fire resulted, I did see the see th SE and it was pretty messed up for about 6" either side of the incident.

My own service is SE, I bent up a piece of RMC to fit but it looked to ugly on the outside of my house, the 200 amp copper SE that I used instead hides a lot better.

SE is Service Entrance Cable after all.