Thanks Stan! I'm on a job right now a bit over my bending skill level, but with this and your last video I'm impressing them with the fast learning. Your a better teacher than the guys on the job. It's a High school emergency generator retrofit, so it's offset city in the overheads. Much appreciated.
De lo mejor k he visto en utube...simple y bien explicado ...tengo 25 años de experiencia y por los últimos 4 empecé con EMT Pipe....siempre me mantuve alejado temeroso de usar EMT....pero el trabajo es empezar y echarle ganas....además.....sin saber doblar pipa se limita muchísimo las posibilidades de k te contraten ...ánimo...poco a poco le vas agarrando chiste y se va haciendo más fácil....
I'm new to the trade and I have plenty of "Old Timers" trying to show me the correct way to bend but they have a harder time explaining it.Im new and your videos are definitely easier to follow than the peopletryi g to teach me. Thanks a million for the informative lesson hope you put out more videos for us "young pups" coming up in the trade.
I've got the manual for my Klein bender, which I believe is a 30 degree unit like your Ideal, and your discussion here is helping the manual make more sense. I appreciate you doing these videos, they would have helped in my previous garage wiring but these came out after I did it, lol!
I would definitely buy if you made a simple video series and sold it :P. If you recorded a bunch of conduit bends in the field with how and why you made the bends, it would get an insane amount of views. Great stuff!
Everyone on here has great bending methods. But this has to be the most simple one yet! I’ve been bending pipe for about 6 years now, sadly never learned the theory. Thanks again!!
SUBBED!!! I have been working in the electrical trade since 2006. I have an E-1 license and take continuing education (4 HR) course every year to maintain the license. Even though I am a fairly decent pipe bender, I wish there were time to refresh our memories of pipe bending instead of the same curriculum each year. Excellent job and excellent videos, looking forward to more. ✌
hey thanks bar z sorry forgot ur name tutorial excellent been a electrician 10 years u make pipe bending look like u riding a bike nice easy n relaxing i just learned some better things when im making my offsets thanks for ur knowledge n patience keep these videos coming. thanks panama ny. ny
Stan, Thanks for your great tutorial, "Conduit Bending 101 -- It's Not Just a Pipe Dream Anymore!" Seriously, thanks for the instructive video. Have a good one! Dave
For those that want to know why..... If you were wondering why you can't go over 360 degrees. Think of it like if the 360 degrees is a circle. If you try to pull wire around a circle it tightened up like if it was wound around a pipe. The more you go over 360 degrees, the tighter it gets. Like Stan said, every little bend adds up. Stan, next time show how to make a box bend. I made so many on a job once, I bought a box bender. Was fast, just stick the end in and push the lever down....instant box termination offset!
Excellent explanation Stan. Although it was 16 years ago, I worked a (smeltering) summer learning commercial wiring and bent a lot of conduit......but must've forgot most of the tricks because this feels like "brand new" info.
That was great Stan. I’m not a pro electrician, though I’ve done a fair amount for my own company until we sold it in 2004, and I decided to retire. Don’t use it that much these days other than for my basement and garage shops. It can be very confusing to people. I have the 1/2” and 3/4” Ideal models, but older, so the handles have no info on them. I’ve never even heard of the Gardner.
You are so right that Ideal makes the best bender. Think they were called benfield year ago. Benfield use to give you a handy bender 8 or 10 page little book that was so usefull. Never like Garner or Greenlee benders. At one place that I worked mechanic would use rhe 1/2" EMT bender to bend 1/2 & 5/8" round stock to make offsets for overhead conveyor hangers. This would bend the hook out enough to mess up bends. Had to lock all the smaller bender up. Amasing some coworkers never could bend a saddle or back to back bends.
You should go over the proper way to install a LB condulet especially after a sharp kick. If you are pulling down from the ceiling you always want to have the opening facing down to make heavy wire pulling a lot easier. Nice vid. Thanks for staying with the same bender.
I forwarded your vid to my boy, he bends tubing for elevator installing and wiring. He does beautiful work and not sure what tricks he know. alway good to learn more, thanks Stan.
Nicely done Stan, Since I do this so rarely, every time there is a conduit job it's a pain in the but, I'll just watch this well done series before, and, save some frustration.... Thanks for showing, Pierre
I found Stan from GOTL and Adam and the machinist RUclips guys. I just watched the conduit series and as usual, I learned something. Thank you Stan. Next time I am rich and willing to hazard Californiastan I would LOVE to do your gathering.
I appreciate the heads-up on different benders. 👍 I'm really trying to wrap my head around the whole math included in the pipe bending thing. Of course like I told my dad when I was in high school I would never have a job where I would need to use math in the "real world" 🙄.
the pain offset to do is the box offset. Easier to spend the money and get the Ideal box offset benders. Pop in your conduit, clamp, pop into the box terminator. I really like the Ideal as well the handle is pretty comfortable after a day of bending. I have 3 actually 4 benders. 1/2" & 3/4 Ideal, and a 1/2 and a 3/4 at either end of the same handle from the 1940's back bend is 4.5" on the 1/2"
Thanks for the great tutorial, maybe if I do a good job running steel conduit all over my shop I can get less hate mail from the commercial wiring guys. Just wondering how abusive of an environment does it have to be before you would need to run rigid instead of EMT?
more wet and explosive than abusive.... I run rigid anywhere within 5' of the floor if it can be hit or rubbed. Anywhere slightly corrosive I run rigid ( like salt water near the beach as well). Anywhere a bird bigger than a pigeon can land on it, rigid (the bird shit and claws do a number). Inside houses I run EMT in attics or crawl spaces where rats can chew. NMT (plastic) anywhere underground with rigid from ground to 5' where it can be hit or rubbed. Anything on roofs just use rigid cuz I got tired of replacing rotted EMT. Most of my wiring was residential, with a bit of Racetrack, oil refinery, shopping centers, and swimming pools. EMT == Essentially Mouse Tough Rigid == will rust out in 60 years when I don't have to worry about it. NMT == Not Mouse Proof
So far so good - last night I was having a tough time with a bend. Imagine looking down a floor joist towards a wall. I’m using 3/4” emt and I need to go towards the wall 12”, make a right 90, then another 90 down a wall. The distance from joist to the right side of the down bend is 10.5 inches. I could not figure out where to put the marks, let alone manage the bends. Basically it’s 2 90’s where wall to wall is 10.5”. It was so hard to manage this and thought I’d ask a pro for some advice or a demonstration.
What other brands of benders make a 30 degree bend when the handle is 90 degrees with the floor/ground? Any of them? Thanks for these videos, re-watching them now that I've got a job, and it's commercial, so I'll be doing a lot of this. Excellent videos.
Use to have two 1.25" EMT benders. Best one had a 2 position large foot pedal. To bend a 90 you bent a 45 degree bend then reset the foot pedal. Trick for you shinny guys bending a 90 in1.25" EMT using a hand bender is to place the end od conduit against a wall so conduit does not move all around.
Well now all those markings on the sparkies benders make a little more sense to me and should cut down on the trial and error/protractor factor for me next time I am bending up some EMT. Extra 6 pack for Stan, for he is the man!
We were wiring in a new/ old body shop one time and a woman in charge was very adamant about NOT leave any " F....ing" sharpie marks on our pipe that's right a body shop.
+mr. Yea, tell me how many feet with more than a dozen different bends do you do DAILY and make your supports and secures within 1/4'' of their original marks. Not to mention sizing wire, loads, OCP devices that go along with running the conduit.
Really great video with clear, concise explanations and demonstrations - many thanks. However is it a building regulation in the USA to be using metal conduit in an industrial location? Many here use cut and glue plastics. Also can you use this tool sucessfully with copper pipe?
wrong (width of slot) diameter for copper. Though my grandpa made some curved shims to go in the conduit bender (0.76" for EMT) for bending copper (0.62") For oil lines for equipment etc...
I might be a very strange person. I enjoyed this video, but I will probably never know where to buy an Ideal Bender, nor ever need one. Still I'm learning :-)
Great videos I specially like the one where you say that you would fired someone if they spent to much time on the PANEL like if they had COD!!! I laugh my A$$ of keep it up!
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I’m a person that has trouble understanding stuff sometimes and you my guys literary spoon feed people I love your videos
You're a fine teacher and a great electrician.
Thanks Stan! I'm on a job right now a bit over my bending skill level, but with this and your last video I'm impressing them with the fast learning. Your a better teacher than the guys on the job. It's a High school emergency generator retrofit, so it's offset city in the overheads. Much appreciated.
Thanks Stan I never knew there was such a difference in benders.
De lo mejor k he visto en utube...simple y bien explicado ...tengo 25 años de experiencia y por los últimos 4 empecé con EMT Pipe....siempre me mantuve alejado temeroso de usar EMT....pero el trabajo es empezar y echarle ganas....además.....sin saber doblar pipa se limita muchísimo las posibilidades de k te contraten ...ánimo...poco a poco le vas agarrando chiste y se va haciendo más fácil....
I'm new to the trade and I have plenty of "Old Timers" trying to show me the correct way to bend but they have a harder time explaining it.Im new and your videos are definitely easier to follow than the peopletryi g to teach me. Thanks a million for the informative lesson hope you put out more videos for us "young pups" coming up in the trade.
I've got the manual for my Klein bender, which I believe is a 30 degree unit like your Ideal, and your discussion here is helping the manual make more sense. I appreciate you doing these videos, they would have helped in my previous garage wiring but these came out after I did it, lol!
I would definitely buy if you made a simple video series and sold it :P. If you recorded a bunch of conduit bends in the field with how and why you made the bends, it would get an insane amount of views. Great stuff!
Mr.,
Best... illustration out there explaining and showing how to bend EMT pipes thank you excellent video
Everyone on here has great bending methods. But this has to be the most simple one yet! I’ve been bending pipe for about 6 years now, sadly never learned the theory. Thanks again!!
These tutorials make me want to go get a bender, even though I don't have a use for one at the moment. Thanks!
SUBBED!!!
I have been working in the electrical trade since 2006.
I have an E-1 license and take continuing education (4 HR) course every year to maintain the license.
Even though I am a fairly decent pipe bender, I wish there were time to refresh our memories of pipe bending instead of the same curriculum each year.
Excellent job and excellent videos, looking forward to more.
✌
Hello, just wondering how are you in your journey?
hey thanks bar z sorry forgot ur name tutorial excellent been a electrician 10 years u make pipe bending look like u riding a bike nice easy n relaxing i just learned some better things when im making my offsets thanks for ur knowledge n patience keep these videos coming. thanks panama ny. ny
Stan,
Thanks for your great tutorial, "Conduit Bending 101 -- It's Not Just a Pipe Dream Anymore!" Seriously, thanks for the instructive video.
Have a good one!
Dave
For those that want to know why..... If you were wondering why you can't go over 360 degrees. Think of it like if the 360 degrees is a circle. If you try to pull wire around a circle it tightened up like if it was wound around a pipe. The more you go over 360 degrees, the tighter it gets. Like Stan said, every little bend adds up. Stan, next time show how to make a box bend. I made so many on a job once, I bought a box bender. Was fast, just stick the end in and push the lever down....instant box termination offset!
Great videos, I'm starting commercial work next week. Ur video's have helped me tremendously! Thanks
Excellent explanation Stan. Although it was 16 years ago, I worked a (smeltering) summer learning commercial wiring and bent a lot of conduit......but must've forgot most of the tricks because this feels like "brand new" info.
How many sticks did you scrap the first month?
RobiSydney - As I said, it's been a while.....but several. Stan makes it look easy, but it definitely requires practice.
Thank you. You teach very well. Very calm. Very smooth.
Thank you for taking the time to teach us a thing or two in conduit bending.
Awesome sessions Stan. I'd love to see how you'd do box offsets without a kicker bender.
Stan, found you from Abom. Really enjoy learning this stuff. This has practical use even for the DIY type guys. Keep em coming.
That was great Stan. I’m not a pro electrician, though I’ve done a fair amount for my own company until we sold it in 2004, and I decided to retire. Don’t use it that much these days other than for my basement and garage shops. It can be very confusing to people. I have the 1/2” and 3/4” Ideal models, but older, so the handles have no info on them. I’ve never even heard of the Gardner.
As a man fresh out of a electrician trade school, i would love to be under a teacher like this gentleman.... i can tell he has a lot to teach!
You are so right that Ideal makes the best bender. Think they were called benfield year ago. Benfield use to give you a handy bender 8 or 10 page little book that was so usefull. Never like Garner or Greenlee benders. At one place that I worked mechanic would use rhe 1/2" EMT bender to bend 1/2 & 5/8" round stock to make offsets for overhead conveyor hangers. This would bend the hook out enough to mess up bends. Had to lock all the smaller bender up. Amasing some coworkers never could bend a saddle or back to back bends.
You should go over the proper way to install a LB condulet especially after a sharp kick. If you are pulling down from the ceiling you always want to have the opening facing down to make heavy wire pulling a lot easier. Nice vid. Thanks for staying with the same bender.
I forwarded your vid to my boy, he bends tubing for elevator installing and wiring. He does beautiful work and not sure what tricks he know. alway good to learn more, thanks Stan.
I appreciate you taking your time in making these videos. Please make a video with concentric 90 degree bends, if you haven't done so already
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Nice job, I like the way you teach. :-)
Very interesting tutorial video having been 44 years in the trade myself , there have been times I wish I had one of those style of benders to hand !
Yes I agree. Love the way you teach. I could definitely see myself working a job with you :)
Nicely done Stan, Since I do this so rarely, every time there is a conduit job it's a pain in the but, I'll just watch this well done series before, and, save some frustration....
Thanks for showing, Pierre
Nice video! Like the way you teach how to bend, learnd a lot. Greetings from Chile.
They way you explaining is very helpful thank you.
Very good to see the bender at work thank you Stan.
Thank you for making time to make these videos ., I really appreciate
I found Stan from GOTL and Adam and the machinist RUclips guys. I just watched the conduit series and as usual, I learned something. Thank you Stan. Next time I am rich and willing to hazard Californiastan I would LOVE to do your gathering.
Would be happy to have you swing by, stay tuned for dates and times!
One too many knockouts in that control panel...just kidding. Was looking for a video to freshen up. This brought it all back thanks..very nice work
I appreciate the heads-up on different benders. 👍 I'm really trying to wrap my head around the whole math included in the pipe bending thing. Of course like I told my dad when I was in high school I would never have a job where I would need to use math in the "real world" 🙄.
appreciate the channel, I'm an apprentice installer in Indiana 4 months in
Terrific tutorials! Manny thanks 🙏
the pain offset to do is the box offset. Easier to spend the money and get the Ideal box offset benders. Pop in your conduit, clamp, pop into the box terminator. I really like the Ideal as well the handle is pretty comfortable after a day of bending. I have 3 actually 4 benders. 1/2" & 3/4 Ideal, and a 1/2 and a 3/4 at either end of the same handle from the 1940's back bend is 4.5" on the 1/2"
I like that trick you did without using the tape. Will that work for rmc too?
Thanks for this series. I’m in need of some education on bending for my job 🤙
Just checked my pipe bender, it is an Ideal. It is nice to finely know how to use it properly.
Excellent how-to tutorial!
I still have trouble with shrinkage when I come out of the pool however.
Thanks for the great tutorial, maybe if I do a good job running steel conduit all over my shop I can get less hate mail from the commercial wiring guys. Just wondering how abusive of an environment does it have to be before you would need to run rigid instead of EMT?
more wet and explosive than abusive.... I run rigid anywhere within 5' of the floor if it can be hit or rubbed. Anywhere slightly corrosive I run rigid ( like salt water near the beach as well). Anywhere a bird bigger than a pigeon can land on it, rigid (the bird shit and claws do a number). Inside houses I run EMT in attics or crawl spaces where rats can chew. NMT (plastic) anywhere underground with rigid from ground to 5' where it can be hit or rubbed. Anything on roofs just use rigid cuz I got tired of replacing rotted EMT.
Most of my wiring was residential, with a bit of Racetrack, oil refinery, shopping centers, and swimming pools.
EMT == Essentially Mouse Tough
Rigid == will rust out in 60 years when I don't have to worry about it.
NMT == Not Mouse Proof
The code states "when subject to physical damage" so it falls into the interpretation of the NEC, when in doubt, build it stout.
NEC says anything outdoors must be rigid....although I see plenty of EMT that's actually exposed to the weather/rain....
+Doug. Thumbs up.
+shadon. Two thumbs up.
Great video Stan I will definitely be using this at work. More electrical trade videos man. Keep em comin
In New Zealand Australia etc, Metal conduit went out like 70 or more years ago. If you have to use conduit use PVC, cut and glue.
You’ve helped me so much, man!
Thanks a ton!! 👍🏻👍🏻
So far so good - last night I was having a tough time with a bend. Imagine looking down a floor joist towards a wall. I’m using 3/4” emt and I need to go towards the wall 12”, make a right 90, then another 90 down a wall. The distance from joist to the right side of the down bend is 10.5 inches. I could not figure out where to put the marks, let alone manage the bends.
Basically it’s 2 90’s where wall to wall is 10.5”. It was so hard to manage this and thought I’d ask a pro for some advice or a demonstration.
You do a great job. thx. can't find more than the 3 or 4 videos that you posted about conduit bending. Can you (or anyone) post more links.
thank you stan very helpful, sure wish i had this info 20 years ago when i built my shop .good job 1 -6 pack for you
Bar Z you should teach us some more advanced bends. You're doing pretty good.
What other brands of benders make a 30 degree bend when the handle is 90 degrees with the floor/ground? Any of them?
Thanks for these videos, re-watching them now that I've got a job, and it's commercial, so I'll be doing a lot of this. Excellent videos.
A good conduit bender, can adapt to any hand bender
This guys the best conduit teacher
Use to have two 1.25" EMT benders. Best one had a 2 position large foot pedal. To bend a 90 you bent a 45 degree bend then reset the foot pedal. Trick for you shinny guys bending a 90 in1.25" EMT using a hand bender is to place the end od conduit against a wall so conduit does not move all around.
Well now all those markings on the sparkies benders make a little more sense to me and should cut down on the trial and error/protractor factor for me next time I am bending up some EMT. Extra 6 pack for Stan, for he is the man!
Thank you for your videos I'm an apprentice learning.
Great way you teach.
I wish I could work with you for a couple of months . Thanks
This is gold brother. Thanks for the education.
We were wiring in a new/ old body shop one time and a woman in charge was very adamant about NOT leave any " F....ing" sharpie marks on our pipe that's right a body shop.
Wipe them off with Acetone
blueticecho I can " wing it" which means no tape measure or marks and be within 1/4:" but I mark with a pencil when needed
+mr. Yea, tell me how many feet with more than a dozen different bends do you do DAILY and make your supports and secures within 1/4'' of their original marks. Not to mention sizing wire, loads, OCP devices that go along with running the conduit.
You can also wipe them off using rubbing alcohol. Rubbing alcohol will remove the sharpie without tearing off any other plastic or coating.
Did you also have to remove any stickers?
I bet this guy can do a great john Goodman impression
Stan could have bent 1" rigid by hand up on the table. Trust me he has an S on his chest for a reason.
Cheers,
Tom
I really like your videos, do you have one were you actually do a 4 point and 3 point saddle bend?
Great info Stan!
Really great video with clear, concise explanations and demonstrations - many thanks.
However is it a building regulation in the USA to be using metal conduit in an industrial location? Many here use cut and glue plastics.
Also can you use this tool sucessfully with copper pipe?
wrong (width of slot) diameter for copper. Though my grandpa made some curved shims to go in the conduit bender (0.76" for EMT) for bending copper (0.62") For oil lines for equipment etc...
Very good, is there a manual that you recommend me ...?
Thank you for another great video.
Better than perfect, absolutely perfect.
Hey Stan, I learned a lot. Thanks!
Any chance you'll show them very expensive Power Benders?
Thanks Stan. Keep them coming
That's way to bend correct.
Thanks again Stan from the lesson.
Awesome, thanks, and thanks for no annoying music, 🤠👍
I might be a very strange person. I enjoyed this video, but I will probably never know where to buy an Ideal Bender, nor ever need one. Still I'm learning :-)
Thanks for the awesome videos keep up the good work!
Thank you for these!
He reminds me of Admiral Painter from the movie - "Hunt for Red October"
Good job thank you for this explaining
Great videos I specially like the one where you say that you would fired someone if they spent to much time on the PANEL like if they had COD!!! I laugh my A$$ of keep it up!
great lesson, i really appreciate it.
great vid stan very informative and well presented
Excellent video. Thanks
Thank you for sharing. Is this part of your test for new hires?
the back bend.. I've been an electrician for 7 years and I'm dying right now. no one knows that fucking bend!!!
very good class, thanks for the video on info.
One thing you also have to consider in this operation is conduit shrinkage.
Another great video. Stan's the man!!
Thanks so much.
What about the shrinkage on the offsets?
Very good, Stan. Thanks!
love your work man
More bending! Thanks Stan.
Very nice job!! I like the way you teach.
Sincerelly, thank you.
Subscribted now!!
if you hold them together at the bottom it shows the angle
Great tutorial keep it coming!!!
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Great tricks of trade thank you
Thanks for the trick without a tape!!!