Bending tails etc.

[kingeri]

Been sorting through my toolbag and getting ready for tomorrow's job. For years I've had a cable bending tool to put a nice clean bend in tails etc., but it seems to have been nicked at some point. Any recommendations for a replacement? Can't find anything exactly like the one I had.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Yep thats true as well, I'm serious when I say we would bend a pipe around a tree trunk, serious.

I believe you.

I once read a book about W. O. Bentley - of Bentley car fame - and in it is described making the exhaust pipes for the cars (1920's era).

The exhaust pipes were made from copper, which they stuffed full of sand, then heated up to red hot and ran outside with them where there was a tree with a forked branch which was used to bent the pipe to the required shape.

 

[MDJ]

We would bend the pipe around the appropriate tree, if a tight bend was needed a young tree was picked, a large radius a bigger tree, laughable now but it did happen years ago, the bends on a conduit bender were considered too tight back then for some types of cabling haha, ridiculous but honestly true.

 

[Guest55]

We would bend the pipe around the appropriate tree, if a tight bend was needed a young tree was picked, a large radius a bigger tree, laughable now but it did happen years ago, the bends on a conduit bender were considered too tight back then for some types of cabling haha, ridiculous but honestly true.

youre not seriously trying to pass this bull-crap off as fact are you MDJ ?
its the 1st of jan not the 1st of april.
;-)

 

[MDJ]

haha, I'm serious Biff

 

[onions1066]

Yes engineer 54 I'm not suggesting bending a 395 by hand, I would need Geoff capes arms for fingers. I'm taking about up to 35mm

 

[Guest55]

what if your working in a field and theres no trees about ? youre gonna look a right dick without a conduit bender lol.

 

[MDJ]

You bend it around your dick then :rofl:

 

[onions1066]

He keeps all sizes of tree in his van

 

[Guest55]

sigh , its going to be a long year.

roll on 2014 lol.

 

[ayjay]

littel boys hands are weak

try ----ing off, it strenghens the wrist

 

[Geordie Spark]

littel boys hands are weak

try ----ing off, it strenghens the wrist

Aye ... maybe - but it doesn't half bugger-up yer eyesight.

 

[markc123]

or a pinky fluffy dildo

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or is that just me?

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Aye ... maybe - but it doesn't half bugger-up yer eyesight.

eat more carrots to compensate then...

 

[kingeri]

Just came back on and seen all the responses to this. Had a row with the wife and you guys have put a smile back on my face. Thankyou. I think I might go and apologise to her

 

[tigerpaul]

I've had some tricky big armoureds to do last year. It was a pain because they glanced into the bottom of isolator and the cores were all crossed over and there wasn't much room.
I could have done with some sort of bending device so I made do with some lumps of wood that I'd drilled holes in.
It did help with the extra leverage I needed but unfortunately it dug into the insulation in a few places and I ended up heat shrinking it to hide the damage.
The cables were 95mils and 120mils so they were a bit unforgiving.