what's that you got there then Gary ah well i've taken a piece of conduit that i cut to one meter
and i've put a 90 degree bend bang in the center of it impressed yep so i'm guessing
you did a video on that it's the one thing i keep forgetting to do but this series of
videos we're doing on conduit isn't to challenge me it's to challenge you Jake and if you haven't
checked out that series already i will leave a link for it in the description but i think
you could replicate this and put a bend straight in the middle of the conduit
wait wait i can see you keen i've done the hard bit for you i've cut the conduit
and there's a thread on one end young man thank you Gary let's see how he gets on
so go let's see how long this piece is that you've cut for me i'm hoping it is a meter
yeah i don't know if you did that on purpose what bang on ah spot on so i've done the odd
bit like i said you're gonna now uh put some marks on it for me where's your first amount
gonna be right so we're gonna put a mark in the center okay so 500 mil or 50 centimetres
i'm going to put a little cross on this mark just so i know that's my center one oh good tip that
is wrong okay and next i'm then going to put my 50 mil from my center line so i might like 45
and that will be the start of the bend once right yeah we know the bending radius of
conduit is two and a half times its diameter this being 20 mil so two and a half times 20 is
50. so it's important you get in the right way round now so which mark goes in
so it's going to go in that way so the mark 50 mil from the center is first
okay and then the one under the roller so if you just lift it up to show me the one under the
roller is that one with that little cross so that is the center of the conduit that's right yeah
any of the top tips yep so we've put a line on our center pin okay so that's the middle of that
pin yes okay we'll just drag a line up to our former okay so on here there should be another
line that's in line with it yeah i can just see that faint black line and you've lined the two up
together now so you're thinking that's the start of the bend is that right that's right yeah there
is a chance that we get something called creep isn't there when we pull it that's right yeah it
might pull slightly just be a couple of mil out that's all and the problem is if if it's two mil
difference it's actually four isn't it if you take two off one and add it until it becomes a
four mil difference let's see if it does creep okay that's moved only a very small fraction
okay let's see if we Tipp-Ex marks work again so you're pulling this down to 90. yeah i think you
need a little bit more again you've got the camera man in the way let's move it across
yep yep that looks the Tipp-Ex doesn't let you down it should be good
okay so let's uh let's see if it is squared and so we've got to bring our square in
to me so far with the table doesn't it
wow that Tipp-Ex mark tip i've said it before in other videos that's pretty incredible
that's running straight isn't it yeah yeah so we're at 90 so again we did see a tiny bit creeped
and we thought we moved a couple of mil so i will say to my students if you're within five
mil you're probably going to be spot on because of that creep yeah so let's measure this one
so from the wall to there what what measure that's 52 and a half okay that's 52 and a half so we can
be as big as perhaps 53 and as low as 52 and i'd be happy because of that let's see what we are
let's check we're not treating up here holding that with your finger yeah
so that is between 50 to 52.8 52.9 so that's just the creep well that's that's the four mil yeah so
that crept about two mil and obviously two off one end and two on the other makes a four mil
difference so that's that's pretty good isn't it do you want to bring bring my one in from
over there and let's uh compare the two lay those two on top of each other so let's bring those in
so that's got a couple of mil difference there it should be a couple of little differences yeah so
i'd just like to suggest one more spot on but that's pretty impressive that we've been
two pieces of conduit within a couple of mil of exactly the same position it's pretty good at this
you could almost be an electrician for a living Jake i think you're that good any top tips that
you could give us out of this video yeah well it's all about getting used to your conduit bending
machine Gary in previous videos we've put marks on our former to show us where 30 degree bend lands
our 90 degree bend we've got our line here from the center pin to show us where to how to get our
center of our bend it's all about getting used to your bender it is so we've gone down that center
pin and we brought it up and we saw a little bit of creep and that was related when we measured
it out so that's nothing to worry about but what i see on site is loads of lines in formers
yeah then which one do you go for yeah exactly so i think the idea is marker pen or Tipp-Ex
yeah in order to get that mark and get comfortable with your conduit bending machine we'd like your
feedback on this series and any other videos you want to see Jake do within this conduit series
if you haven't checked out what we've already done i'll leave a link to our playlist in the
description and as always Jake will take great pleasure and getting back to every single comment