That's a bad way of marking the conduit. Try extending the rule past the end of the conduit the same amount as the DEDUCT. Then you only need to make one mark. No math or re-measuring required
Thank you!! I would love to be able to do that for you. As I build this channel and my my instructional business I plan to get a Triple Nickel and other types of smart benders. So with that being said I plan to in the future. Thank you for your support!! CM
Great video! Maybe you know the answer to this question. The Greenlee 1800, the Current 750, the Lidseen 5100 all bend 1/2" RMC at a radius that is much smaller than specified in Chapter 9 table 2 of the NEC, so the bend would technically would not campily. Why would they make a product that does not follow NEC. Thanks!
Old time electricians bend rigids by hand, they must have arms like Arnold Schwarzenegger. The way they laid down conduits and cables were like work or art.
Hi, dear Craig Michaud, the instructor. I myself I always use sharpies all the time on metallic conduits, emt, rigid, even cantrust. Have you ever tried passing back on your mark with a sharpie and rubbing the wet ink marking with a glove ? For it erase like 99%of the mark after I done my bends.
Can you use that bender on EMT? My boss has one of those he picked up years ago and I used it to bend 1" emt and almost the entire 90degree bend was flattened. He got it second hand for free, I told him to throw it away because if it can't bend EMT properly we can't use it. Maybe It's intended use is rigid and I'll tell him to keep it around.
@@JoseDiaz-mb9lj 100% says rigid only when you google it. It completely crushed the inside of our bends on 1" emt Funny that my boss held onto it for this long. We never use rigid
The shoes are a different size for rigid vs emt. You can't use one for the other. The OD's are different. That is why you get crushed or kinked bends. It is the same with pipe vs tube bending dies.
@@robbieburns1664 Thanks for answering. The bender was so old all the information was worn all of the bender. A brand new one has "rigid only" on the side.
I found it to be a little TOO in depth, but I do appreciate that the video was intended for people totally unfamiliar with it. I just got a greenlee 1800 and didn't know where I was supposed to put my mark against the bender. Lol. You answered my questions sir.
