how do we Bend and offset in conduit
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all right so when we're going to do an offset essentially what we want is we want the bend
to kick up like this say that we have an obstacle like this box that we want to clear
we have to bend a portion down this way and then we have to bend another portion this way
so it'll clear over that box so let's actually do the distance for this so the first thing you have
to do is figure out what your actual offset is going to be so this is two and a quarter
inches that I'm trying to clear so I have to bend a two and a quarter inch offset what that
means is I need to double that number I'm going to do a 30 degree Bend and I just know that that
means that that's a 2X multiplier every degree bend that you're going to do whether or not you
choose to do a 45 degree Bend if you choose to do a 60 degree Bend or if you choose to do a 30
degree Bend they're all going to have a little bit different multiplier so check your ugly's
manual I keep one of those things on me every day because it just keeps all the multipliers and all
this information in there it's really handy but I just know off the top of my head that a 30 degree
Bend is going to be a 2X multiplier so whatever your object is that you're trying to clear you
just take that measurement and multiply it by two so we just did two and a quarter two and a
quarter times two is uh four and a half so we're gonna have a four and a half inches between our
first Bend and our second bed that's how we're gonna bend the offset let's do like 18 inches
so my first line I'm going to draw at 18 inches and then I know that my offset we said was four
and a half inches right so we're gonna go four and a half and we're going to draw our second line
so our first Bend we're going to be bending up this way and our second Bend we're going to flip
it over 180 degrees and bend up again a lot of people mess offsets up because they forget to
turn the conduit over another thing to do with your pencil not with a marker I'm just doing
this with a marker so you all can see it on video but your first Mark you can just Mark a regular
Mark I always carry my second Mark around the conduit because you're going to end up bending
one you're going to end up flipping the conduit and then bending the other one so I always draw
my second line around now I want to give a big shout out to pen aluminum thank you so much pen
for sending me all of this aluminum conduit and for sponsoring this video um so the benefits of
working with aluminum conduit a it's way lighter so like you wouldn't believe how much like a big
stack of conduit that you can lift up when it's aluminum it's so much lighter a lot easier to
bend to so like if you're used to bending like one inch inch and a quarter inch and a half conduit
um being able to bend aluminum versus like really like struggling with steel
um so the benefit you know is obviously it's lighter but but being able to bend it is such
a huge thing there's even this coating that they can put on the inside of the conduit that's called
blue Lightning it's sort of like a Teflon coating but it essentially makes pulling a lot easier on
the inside of conduit a lot of times when you're using aluminum conduit it it kind of catches more
than the steel does so it's a little bit more difficult to pull wire through sometimes but with
a coating like this it comes through with a breeze and the cost of aluminum versus the cost of Steel
you're always going to pay less with aluminum than you are with steel so just kind of across
the board it makes sense to be using aluminum conduit if you're interested in finding out more
about pen aluminum or looking into their aluminum conduit check the link in the description below
all right so first Bend I'm going to line up with my arrow just like I was doing with a 90. now I'm
going to look for the 30 degree line and I'm going to bend this until this line is parallel with this
conduit it's not going to be exact you kind of have to figure out where that point is there
might be a little bit of a play or a little bit of a difference so don't over Bend and be all super
Gusto about it most of the time a bender when this ends up straight up and down and you can stick a
level on it most Benders are set up for straight up and down to be a 30 degree Bend but not all
Benders there are Benders out there where straight up and down is actually 45 degrees so just know
know what you've got but here we go make sure that we press down while we're pulling back on the
handle that's a super super important part A lot of people forget if you don't and you just start
pulling back on this you're going to bend all the rest of this so you're gonna have a bent piece of
conduit a whole way down so just step down and do more pushing down than you do pulling back
and also since this is aluminum conduit I don't want it to Kink where I don't want to mess the
pipe up so if I'm not super tight and pushing down and keeping that like riding really nice
in the smoothness of that shoe I'll end up messing it up so I'm about level with the ground right now
stick that on there still a little off I'm going to go just just a touch more anytime you're making
adjustments when you're bending conduit too you you can step on this just a hair Bend just
a little bit way less than you think actually translates to a lot down here so when you make
little adjustments like that you can still see that I'm not in that bubble so I'm going to go a
little bit more just make a little tiny adjustment like that and we're right in the middle there now
if you look down here at the bottom I'm actually at 30 degrees that 30 degree line is parallel with
my conduit so I know I just did a 30 degree Bend I know I'm taking a lot of time here
but for those of you that have never done this I feel like it's a good idea to give you the extra
explanations now the next thing you can do is there's two options you can try to flip this over
and take your arrow and go to the next line but look what happens now the pipe's in the way
some of you that are like really good at conduit bending you know there's a certain
amount of pressure you can add and just bend down on this and pull it but it's actually
going to end up rounding your Bend more so it's a sloppier way to do it so the better way is to
take this and set the conduit up like this all right so we need to make sure first and
foremost that our line on the Bender is still on the line the second thing is you want to make sure
that this Bender is straight on with that pipe you don't want this thing kicked like that when you're
trying to bend it because that means it's going to shoot off one way so you need to try to line up
your uh your pipe and sometimes it takes like sitting back here
and looking at it and if you don't do this right well you'll create what's called a
dog leg and it means it kind of kicks off goes dog leg left or dog leg right
maybe that's just a Texan thing that we say so I think that looks pretty good now what I'm going
to do is I take my my foot don't put your foot back here put your foot right here and you're
going to kind of lean this Bender forward a little bit and apply downward pressure it's
really important that you don't come back here and start bending because you're actually going
to bend the conduit over here again like every time that we Bend and do anything with bending we
want to stay as close to the Bender as possible so that it keeps all of the pressure uniform in
this shoe and it only makes the bending happen where we want it to bend so I think this looks
good I'm going to kind of lean my weight down and pull down on this right about here here we go
little by little
all right so the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to try to line up my
30 degrees again so I know that my 30 degrees is parallel with that conduit
and to me that looks good right there I'm going to flip this thing back around
put it on the ground and to me that looks like where the box is going to
be sometimes if it's if it's a little off you might you know if it's like angled up
slightly rather than trying to re-go do all of that bending a lot of times you can just take
and push down in the middle and it'll pop that side up which translates it
going back down that way so you can kind of work with the bends a little bit don't
hammer on it or anything like that but you can do little adjustments so let's see what we got
that perfectly clears it maybe an eighth inch too high but you can see too it kind of Slants
up at the top so what I was talking about is I know I want that side to go like that so if I
flip it over that means I want that side going like that if I push and just do a little bit
a little bit of pushing you can see that's better it's it's getting
slightly better but you shouldn't do that do that a couple of times
and get it adjusted where you want but there you go that is the offset that is specifically a 30
degree offset 45 degree off so it's just going to come up at an angle like this more and a 60 degree
is going to come up like that but you can kind of translate that when you're out there bending
now one thing to note with regular offsets is you have a few different angle options so
whenever you're bending just make sure if you're bending 30 degree offsets and you're using that
math to do that on every single one when you're stacking a bunch of conduit together that's the
way that you're going to get them all to look the same if you do one of your offsets at 45
degree bends and the other one at 30 degree bends they're going to be offset it's going to look like
crap you can do 60 degree bends a little bit crazier but there's math if you have an uglies
book just open your uglies book and it shows you what the multipliers are for each one so I hope
that helped thank you guys so much for watching love you crazy people I'll see in the next one