How do I use a Fish Tape?

"Never let an inanimate object kick you butt..." I head this over and over again during my electrical apprenticeship. Mostly because I was constantly getting my butt kicked by a fish tape. Bending heads, getting it through the conduit typically ended with me cussing and busting my knuckles. Let me take a second to show you a much better way.

0:00 Intro
0:17 Be Better
0:30 Kicked My Butt
1:00 What is a Fish Tape
1:20 Fish Tapes Can Hurt You
1:50 Common Fish Tape Problems
2:30 Fish Tape Heads
3:27 Bad Heads will catch
3:50 How do I bend a fish tape head?
4:30 Tape the head closed.
5:00 Use a torch to heat up the metal
5:50 Don't touch the heated up metal
6:30 Recap
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[DeagleDg]

...Does everything but actually use it...

[brentfrank]

Dude, you helped me so much. I ran all my conduit and it was my first time. Then i ran my buddies fish tape through it and got snagged at every turn. Watched your video, heated the tip, bent the tip, lubed the tape and wire bundle like a virgin on prom night with soap and pulled the wires like I knew what I was doing….youdaman.

[Chris-kkc]

The video title drew me, the content kept me, and the olympic bars impressed me.

[KW-N]

This title needs to be changed, he never actually demonstrated how to use it, he just kind of glossed over it.

[cyclonic]

Thanks for calling out the toxic crap that seems to occur in the trades. We NEED people in trades and a lot of people just dont want to be around the toxic and bully type attitudes out there. Like you said, we all need each other
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[aaroncutting]

You've gotten it backwards with heating the metal. Bending it is essentially work hardening the metal - the torch is annealing it and making it softer so when you go to bend it you don't excessively harden it. Still; good suggestion to heat the metal before bending.

[estebant]

Can you make a video on choosing which conduit bend is best to use on certain situations? Thanks :-)

[dillonhall]

whoa light work didn't expect that 116

[paulb]

Yeah but how do I use it, a demo would have been helpful, waste of time

[Mushroomhaus]

3/4 of the video is bending broken fish tape…

[koc]

bro u really need to plan your video out

[Aaron.Church.Solomon]

Little weird when you said "Aaron" at 6:00 ngl 😆 😅

[drewlarson]

All that whinging and your tip is misleading. The heat and slow cooling anneals the metal. Gonna want to temper it again or you pull the end-loop straight.