don't adjust your sets i know what you're thinking have they cloned Gary
i know we look like identical twins but i'm joined by Jake for this series of videos looking at steel
conduit that can help you if you're just getting into the trade maybe as an apprentice or maybe
you're an electrician whose conduit skills are a little rusty do you like how i did that one
so what do you want to start with then so we'll start with looking at the conduit bender
first looking at the different parts of it i'm transporting it as well transporting it that's
a big one for me so whenever i lifted it around the workshop or got it on the back of the van that
the arm would swing freely hit me in the shin and the legs would open out
when you brought this one it didn't seem to do so mine doesn't do that
there we go lots of cracking starting up shall we see how that is then yep so we've got two pins
one's holding the handle and this one is stopping the bender from opening up so here we go
seems too simple doesn't it so it's those two there we're in position
in the appropriate holes stopping it obviously when transporting it from flying open yeah
so what do you would like to start with will you explain to me first so we'll start with the handle
some people might call this the roller bar okay yeah now we've got the roller itself
i noticed there's some other holes there so it can be moved to position what's the thinking
behind that yep so that can be adjusted depending on the size of conduit that we're bending 20 25
32 for example okay yeah and this thing here what we would call this and that's the former this is
20 more form at the moment that we've got in and this is the stop so insert a piece of conduit you
can see that stops it from flying up in the air ah right so again the reason there's several holes in
here i suppose as this conduit gets larger from 20 25 32 you could actually bring it up the holes in
that strap itself right the former you said was a 20 mil former i noticed there is another one
attached to one of the legs yep we've got a 25 mil former down there and really easy to swap out okay
remove that
that simply slides out
easy as that so now we're ready for 25 mil that was easy
yeah okay so that form is now in for 25 mil conduit it might be a case now of
you move your stop at one position that's right yeah as i'm looking at the legs
in relationship to the vice that's attached to the conduit bending machine it seems to be a little
bit of an angle what's the thinking behind that yep so you'll see why when we insert his conduit
this is a different vice Gary as well this is a round jaw vice okay so what is that so obviously
traditional vices usually flat that could crush or flatten the conduit slightly we don't want that
to happen and that won't happen with a round jaw vice that makes sense so often at colleges you see
those squared jaw vice on benches so if you start putting this conduit in you can actually crush it
flat correct yeah now with it being higher and lower so this being the higher end here
which end do i end up working on we're going to work from the higher end
you can imagine this would normally be a longer piece of conduit we don't want to
be down bending down lower to cut and thread that we want to be working from the higher end
okay and you're going to show us in a later video how to cut and thread conduit properly as well
so they're the key elements of our conduit bending machine we're going to take this next so
we've looked at the basics of the conduit bender we're going to use this in this series of videos
and we're going to look at bending and bending a range of different conduit bends so you're going
to do for me a 90 degree bend you're going to do double set swan necks or bubble sets you can
do back to back bends yeah you can do a bend in the set i'm going to do everything yeah i'd
like to say thank you for that okay so that's all going to come up in this series of videos
and we'd like your comments and feedback please leave those below is there a bend you want to
see Jake do okay it's one that you're struggling with on site or maybe struggling with at college
is there anything that we've called the items on the conduit bending machine that you've got
another names we'd like to know those names especially if we move through this series of
videos and we'll try and get back to or let Jake actually get back to as many comments as he can