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It soon comes back to you too though doesn't it!!! You never totally forget how to bend a bit of pipe so that it will fit and look the business!! lol!!!
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I wasn't aware conduit bending skills were how electricians were judged. I must be a cowboy then.
Thanks for the tip. Bends and elbows are so cheap, less than a quid each if you know where to look, it would cost more in labour to bend it all with a spring anyway.
I trained with a guy who would use a bit of 4"x 2" with a hole cut in the middle of it to form bends, Double sets etc , Now I know there are not many out there now-a-days who have ever come across this? You would have to be well over 35 + to have may be come across this,
You're probably going to get a few replies from other members keen to keep the ancient art of conduit bending alive. I am surprised by how strongly some people's opinions are on others using pre-formed bends and elbows.
If I was a salaried employee no doubt things would be different, I imagine most of those here that consider me a cowboy are salaried employees.
not to mention a leg operation if you keep on bending conduit with your knees, anybody who says that it is supposed to be bent with a spring and your knee here is probably a tite ars company owner who wants to get the workers (read labourers or apprentices) to bend it all day to save buying preformed joining bits, and would refuse to do it themselves....oooh oooh my knee hurts...drops conduit after splitting it trying to bend it....
If it was supposed to be bent then they would be trying to sell us proper tools for bending it, as far as I am concerned it is designed to be cut into lengths and joined/diverted using glued on pre-formed connectors/angles/bends...you dont see plumbers bending PVC pipe do you? but you do see them bending copper.....its a similar material comparison...
Ask a doctor the next time you see one about if it is ok to bend conduit with your knee on a regular basis and see what the response is......in fact a lot of sparks are married to nurses, ask them as well...
Plastic - bending springs.
Galv - A Hilmor Shortie, stocks and dies, file and a reamer. If you intend doing lots of galv work then a REMS amigo will be your best friend.
Absolutely chuffin' love working with steel conduit. Shame all the time and effort spent to make it look the dogs dooh-dahs is normally hidden above a suspended ceiling. I'm one of those saddos who will notice conduit in the supermarket car parks and make helpful (obviously) comments
Me tooooooo....... The Missus walked out on me in a pub because I wouldn't shut up - in her opinion, about how crap the tray and conduit was in this particular pub that we was in. In my defence though, it was pony.
Your joking! a Streel conduit bender for PVC, ????? Also look at thre T & E in the Background, Cant anyone (or teach ) clip straight? AND it should be in Containment/Protected as less then 2 metres of the ground, 17TH (RCD's) or Not!!!!!1
Just another reason i'm not allowed to go shopping with the mrs, all she does is complain that i am looking up in the air the whole time and walking into people all for the love of conduit.
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