in this video we continue on a series of videos looking at steel conduit if you
haven't checked any of those out i'll leave a link to the playlist in the description below
Jake said off camera i've got a top tip for you guys i love a top tip he said but i won't reveal
my top tip until you hit record on the camera while we're recording what's your top tip so Gary
when doing a 30 degree bend for a set let's say or a 90 degree bend instead of stepping back and
lying up i've got an inclinometer inclinometer that sounds something rather technical when
there's big words like that we get Joe Robinson to do the videos what's an inclinometer it's just a
digital angle gauge oh right so it'll tell us when we're at 30 and tells us we were 90. yep
i haven't got one of those but you've got one so you're going to use it
and i'm going to show you a top tip to use one when he's gone
that's even magnetic so you're going to set your horizon to zero is that right
yep so that's the road now okay so when you've pulled that down to 30 of exactly 30 we showed
in a previous video where we did double sets that we'd like that first bend to be 30 degrees
so this will almost be able to be bang on why not we'll flex a little bit won't we
up there you got a tiny bit more if you want it yeah if you want to oh he's going again
yes there's your top tip with a inclinometer if i said it right that's right yep here's some
correction fluid okay and i'm going to show you a top tip using this
so we can see the roller bar or the arm of the conduit bending machine we've obviously
discussed that in a previous video where we talked about all the parts of a conduit bending machine
we've actually got now a marked point here if i could have a line here i could see
when i stepped back i'd actually know that that's approximately 30 degrees without
the fancy bit of kit that Jake's got so all i'm going to do is take my correction fluid and try
and give myself a very thin line to follow when i step back so as i sit this on here
i'm just going to brush a little bit of a line in just there so i'll probably tidy it up at
some point so what happens now is when i pull mine down like so and i can see my arm and that
white line match that will be approximately 30 degrees so if you send this on to 90 degrees
for me i could paint myself another line and i won't need your fancy kit yeah 60 90 110 you're
about 75 you're going 80 keep going almost there it will spring back so what we have almost there
switch market closer i think oh no you're still miles out whole two degrees
wow yeah i think we'll go with that just need to paint my second line in
like so there we go so that means again when i pull my arm down to that position there and i'm
looking from here i can see those two are matching so the arm itself and i'll wipe this off the arm
itself and the white line will give me 90 degrees and in that position that will give me 30. so 90
30 or approximately we'll let you decide in the comments who had the top tip there
to setting it to 30 and to 90 but i think the correction fluid for me won yeah Gary well i
thought i was really good coming in with my little gadget you beat me with the correction fluid but
i've got a question for you okay what's the question so what if your lines rub off
yeah okay what if the battery runs out in your device what if you run it over with a forklift
why if you drop it in a bucket of water what if you leave it at home we can all play that game
can't we i know the marks on this former are not etched there forever and obviously they're
only put on with Tipp-Ex but it certainly gives you as a student training that way that you can
set your conduit bending machine so you can get a 90 or 30 in this case as well to near perfect
every time without spending all that money on your inclinometer as always we're interested
in your comments because he loves just answering them all he has been for the whole of this series
so leave as many comments as you can below because Jake will getting back to all of them