conduit work

[john h owen]

How did u get trained to bend a offset say a 20mm steel conduit?

 

[Megavolt]

Watched and learnt mainly then given a length of tube and told to have ago

 

[telectrix]

as above, but scrapped a fair bit of conduit before getting it right. and i'm still useless.LOL.

 

[DurhamSparky]

^^^^ me too!

 

[malcolmsanford]

You'll need a few bundles of these

With one of these .......................................

And loads of attempts, because I have yet to find a book that will teach you how. It might show you how or what to do, but I have honestly yet to find a wall that is straight, level or even at right angles to each other that makes sense of a book

 

[telectrix]

never got the hang of getting the length from the bend, so always made it longer than necessary, offered up to wall/trunking then cut and re-threaded.

 

[markthespark]

Someone on this forum posted these PDF files a while ago on how to bend steel conduit.

Ive attached them.

Cheers

 

[parker56]

Look on youtube there is a demo on how to measure & bend conduit by polly friendshuh

 

[mogga]

Get hold of a bending vice Hilmore ect Get a bundle of tubing Watch YouTube vidios PRACCTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE also bear in mind Some people just CANT bend conduit Like ME Im crap at it absolute Bollix so I am

 

[Knobhead]

As an ten year old, my elder brother was an electrician.

Just a pitty we are estranged now, both retired.

 

[mackers]

best person i ever seen with steel conduit was my dad he could tube to or around anything,
when i was a lad we were doing a boilerhouse we had to tube out of the trunking down to the floor,about a metre across, then 6" set up on to plinth then another metre then right angle upto the isolator. he took the measurements wrote em down then took 1 lenght of conduit and proceeded to bend with no cuts and threadb it ,while i fixed saddles,once finished he gave it to me and said fit that!
to my amazement i put in place tightend the bushes and saddles and that was it magic!!!!!!!

 

[Strima]

Sadly a lot of these skills are now dying off. Too easy to buy pre-made bends and angles an just screw them all together, a run comprising solely of bends looks a hell of a lot more professional.

 

[Knobhead]

We are being sarcastic? Aren’t we?

 

[alarm man]

as said just practice when i was an apprentice i was hanging off the machine couldnt even pull it down,every spark i know has his own way of doing it,ive seen some who done some impossible stuff,im ok at it but theres some masters out there who you have to marvel at..

 

[Megavolt]

best person i ever seen with steel conduit was my dad he could tube to or around anything,
when i was a lad we were doing a boilerhouse we had to tube out of the trunking down to the floor,about a metre across, then 6" set up on to plinth then another metre then right angle upto the isolator. he took the measurements wrote em down then took 1 lenght of conduit and proceeded to bend with no cuts and threadb it ,while i fixed saddles,once finished he gave it to me and said fit that!
to my amazement i put in place tightend the bushes and saddles and that was it magic!!!!!!!

Old school skilled trades man was an apprentice to one for a few years love em can't learn them skills on a 6 week course