so we are going to carry on in this video Joe a series of videos which we have done on conduit
weather we have done simple threading of conduct crank set bubble sets double sets and also you
went on and did we looked at bending methods and we look specifically at the back of bending back
of bend method that might come in quite helpful for things like AM2 or AM2S it evolves itself
out yeah we believe there's a piece of conduit in there that will need a couple of bends in it so
of course those videos that me and Joe have done on the channel should help you with that
and this video would say is perhaps one of my students quality as a life hack a phrase that
you love Joe I don't like that expression you see it all over the internet don't it's like
try hanging your clothes up in a wardrobe life hack and it it's not hack that's just that's
just what you do isn't it ok but these actually I didn't really think some of the tips that are
coming up today are absolutely brilliant and will help you and it's one of those things when
you're training people you don't realize the little things you do on site to make life easy
for you so you don't often pass those on do you know I was just doing something in a lesson and
one of the students shouted out well that's almost like a life hack for conduit so that's there but I
know what the other thing you think it is well come on get on with the life hack you're also
thinking one of us is wearing some new merch ok so what's happening there Joe yeah finally got myself
some Joe Robinson Training t-shirts yeah I haven't quite decided to sell it yeah I don't think it's
a massive market for that but what's quite nice as well there's been time about the camera to work on
the whiteboard look at that Joe Robinson training across the back happy days so we'd like to think
that GSH Electrical and our joint channel which is installation Theory predominately testing fault
finding with Marcus and on-site with Matt he's helping you through your apprenticeship and we'd
like to think you're also following Joe Science and principals channel Joe Robinson Training in
order to get through that element as well there is a third channel Joe that can help you as well
absolutely so we'd recommend that you go and follow our other channel eFIXX it's yeah because
what you're going to find there is that as GSH Electrical and Joe Robinson Training hopefully
helps you through the preliminary part of your electrical education and helps you to pass your
exams and learn about being an electrician as you move into the electrical industry and
become more deeply involved in that you're going to realize that things are changing and develop
all the time and our YouTube channel eFIXX and the website efixx.co.uk is where you'll find
information about the changes that are happening where the industry seems to be heading and keep
yourself up to date with some important changes that take place ok so yeah then we're trying to
cover all the bases I would say so let's go back to that lovely word that Jo like life hack okay
so we've seen in a previous video presentation means showing you how to add a thread to a conduit
we went in dry and then we put some lubrication on yes and some cutting compound yes it would be
called in the exam in order to make that thread easier however we've got students from 16 to
60 I think this year and all kinds of physical attributes and one or two of the learners have
been sort of a little bit struggling there and and it's like you think could make it easier
if I you almost feel like cheat life hack should be like cheat when working but let's
see what I mean by that while watching me from behind the effort that we're gonna put in Joe
in order to start this threading process so just watch it the the effort the effort that I'm gonna
put in on this one so we've got it here we got our stocks and dies we're already tired of thread and
I'm gonna start putting some more threads on it so you know I'm obviously athletic in my early
twenties in the prime of my life but this that's that takes some effort and I couldn't for instance
I couldn't certainly do that with one finger would wouldn't wouldn't let's get the guns out
with one finger okay I thought I couldn't do that and you got very ones when you're
doing this all day as well you don't have feeling in your shoulders your back and
your biceps it really does take the strain yeah so with the physical attributes of the learners
been all different and okay and that doesn't mean between gender it's just just generally the
the statement that would go with we can make it easier we know on sites of people that you
know generally chipping from on site go everybody knows everyone they do but when you're sixteen you
straight from school maybe there's a little way around it now we don't necessarily advocate using
in the workshop for everyone but one or two people that are struggling we give them the option off
nice another piece of conduit how this is gonna work yeah well you know I can run
on that so what we're going to do is were actually going to extend out the arms and
I've seen on site people take these I'll make it look like a propeller wheel as they just
flicking it around yeah maybe but let's see the big difference now is that when we we use
a little bit songs and principles you have really done we've we go further away from
where we need to be a bit like how they built the pyramids when it matter what do you wanna flip
those big big stones into place so we're going to slide that onto one we could put it on both of
them skin shot on one just for ease and I'm going to take one finger and I'm now going to do that
so effortless there so let's try again I'll use the same finger warming it up now and
okay nothing at all hashtag life hack along with putting your clothes in the wardrobe prevents them
from maybe looking creased I'm wearing them on bone we like to call our when at home the
floordrobe yeah that's where we keep our clothes right next to the floordrobe the floors right be
friendly so that's the first of two life hacks yeah okay so that was one to make it okay just
by extending these arms out okay and our learners what are two of the have used them this year ok
we're gonna do the same process we're gonna reset ourselves now when we're looking at making it
easier to put a bend in conduit absolutely okay then Gary so you've shown us that brilliant life
hack okay on how to thread the conduit making life a little bit easier for yourself yeah so now we're
going to talk about bending conduit now this is an interesting one because obviously when you're
bending 20 mm and when you've been doing this a while it's not that hard especially with you
know sometimes the quality the conduit isn't what it was nowadays but that's not too bad but this
piece of advice is sorry it just hurts me to call it a life hack
this piece of advice look Gary's about to give us is actually it's good it's even more helpful
when you're dealing with maybe 25 mm to it r32 mm really does get quite difficult though stage
the crying moment of thirty two hanging off the end of it trying to pull it down yeah okay so
good stuff Gaz so what's talked us through this thing goes yeah so what it is is again
you're right we're only using 20 mm conduit on it often are lengths for us are 600 mm long when
we're working with them in order to create most of the exercises we develop at Tresham College
but still it goes back to you know people coming straight out school maybe
not have developed the frame they're gonna live in for the rest of their life
and and some that some of the learners come along and you can see them just and you know you maybe
if you push here and there's somebody else on the other end and pair of up until they get it going
in order to start start the bend yeah so this year first year wacky sort of almost
allowed the life hack effect to go that's 18 years in and this year I've gone well I'll help you out
exactly the same as did with the conduit just need to really extend this arm the further we are away
obviously the easier is going to be to put in so you're increasing your mechanical advantage
you've gotta force greater distance gives you a higher level of turning motion so
down we go they only just make sure you stand on the bending shooter with it for sure so
again so we're at this end here and again you can just see how much easier that is
so that where the students are before you can carry on hoovering as well as well it's a bit
of a bush fix got flying around that we got yeah this this was yeah you can't buy these anywhere
scaffolding poles of course we've seen comes your bends before I see that come with an extension
bar for the handle they sort of sitting a little slot there okay yeah anyway they're
obviously designed for that but just one small word of caution with this all I would say is that
if you are bending big conduit and you're using the extension bar or something like that just
make sure that everything is rock-solid cuz I had a friend once who was doing this he was pulling
down on the bar yeah and the bar gave or snapped something gave and he rocked himself quite badly
on the head so again maybe try and always stand to one side of it so you don't injure yourself
I'm sure he's not watching but Karl Moritz volleyed his front two teeth out when we were 16
so we turned to us okay you know we were there we were supportive friends and he pulled the bar and
it slipped and he volleyed this front 2 teeth and turned to us and grined it was difficult not to
continue the laughter on for many months of his broken two front teeth so again just be careful
when doing it you know might have been vomiting other than laughing at that point that shot
Oh Karl I just like to say that story have been using for the 18 years ive been teaching since
I was so different food the volatility so yeah joking aside this a bit more relaxed for us here
for this video so we're classing it is making you know apprentices life easier a phrase that
we use with electricians lot of things you're on eFIXX so making apprentices life easier
by just maybe extending the arms out and I would do both of them on the steel conduit
you're over and see what yeah yeah that was just to prove that you could use your finger and again
if you extend that and you're quite right the actual if you got a decent conduit bending machine