How to Bend Pipe and Learn all of the Calculations for all Conduit bends!

If you're interested in learning how to bend electrical conduit like a pro, then this video is for you!

Never Cut Corners and Never Say "Good Enough".
Start with pipe bending calculations and pipe bending basics. Its' not just how to bend pipe, it is the foundation for all pipe or electrical conduit bending you need to ben pipe the right way.

Don't be lazy and watch the video till the end, In over 8 minuets you will be smarter than you were 8 minuets ago and a better pipe bender, GUARANTEED!!!
Lots of stuff you need to know!
You'll also learn some Pipe Bending Calculations to remember that will help with all bends.

[thasniperwolf]

As an electrician apprentice who has a conduit bending test coming up soon, this has been more informative than what I've learned at school.

[TheTubejunky]

I hate pipe bending! Like you said "the satisfaction of making it all come together is nice". I will agree!

[DGTubbs]

MAN that was pretty...AND FAST!!! Dude just snatched those bends and was perfect with it. It's nice to have a professional instructing the class! 😁

[troyb]

Definitely helpful! Could you do a video on offsets, box offsets, kicks etc? Difference between a forward 90 and a stub 90, back to back 90's?

[mitchf.]

One of the most informative videos for this on YouTube. Nice! Thanks!

[brayancruz]

awsome video, thank you for making this a very funny and educational video. this is going to help me out a lot for the group project I have tomorrow

[Penguin]

Couple points, those notches that you pointed out are actually the center of bend for different angles. For example, my Milwaukee bender has three of them, and as per the instructions on the handle, the first notch is a center of a bend for a 30, then 45, then 60 degree bend if memory serves. On this particular Klein bender the star dictates the back of a bend when viewed from above, looking down with the pipe on the ground and the bender handle vertical, it happens to line up with the notch, but that is not true on every bender.
Furthermore, shrinkage only affects the pipe downstream of the bend- the first end of the pipe is inside the coupling and is a fixed point.
Concerning shrinkage, whatever the first bend is going into the saddle will dictate what shrinkage you use. For example, in this video, you used a 22.5° bend, so the shrinkage would be 3/16 per inch of rise if you used a 30° bend then the shrinkage would be 1/4 in. per inch of rise, etc.

Another point to mention is, it’s more common practice when doing a three bend saddles to use the push through method, bending the first bend first, and then the center bend second and then the third bend last- doing so ensures leverage, if your saddle were near the end of the pipe instead of in the center as shown in this video.

[MezPlague]

Got a midterm tomorrow this video has been very helpful thank you sir

[vince]

Thanks for the lesson. Much appreciated.

[Nstruction]

Dude you meet at the bar, and he starts talking math, and you are like-WTF-LOL Great Vid!!!

[amrettl.jackson-graham]

Hello Mr. SE; Can you please do a four points bend and a more of a complex bend using 15, 221/2, 45, and 60° bends so that people can relate to?? I really appreciate your videos and thank

[dbconstruction]

I'm obviously not as smart as your average viewer. I hope in the future you could do this video again more slowly with more visuals. I was trying to capture what you were saying but the numbers and the angles were coming at me too fast. But I do enjoy your posts and eagerly await them every week. Please keep on doing what you're doing. And have a taco and a beer for me!

[crookeddonald]

As a handyman who dabbles in electrical work, what I would do is unscrew that piece of channel, run the conduit against the wall underneath it. Screw the channel back over the pipe and take a sledge and bash both ends of the unistrut until it conformed around the pipe. No bender or calculations needed! 👍

[bashirali]

Thank sir, your videos are very helpful

[VictorIbarra-mk]

Hey so in reference to your shrink table you had on your blackboard, does it apply to sizes 1/2, 3/4, and 1” EMT ?? + ?

[GBlaque]

I still don’t know how to decide what degree of bend to use for the height of the obstacle/ offset. Is it something you just know? Like I use 10 degrees for my box offsets on a flat surface. Other than that, it’s pretty much trial and error. I’m an apprentice.

[mrromantimothy]

I can Wing a saddle over that, it would be a four point saddle bend to allow for strapping to the unistrut but I can use a tape measure just so I can show you what I'm doing,
I don't know if you're going to cuz I haven't seen the video yet but don't put any marks on your conduit with a sharpie, I've never done any multipliers or anything I just pencil mark my saddle on the conduit and allow for the shrinkage. You got to know your notches though I'm going to make a video because I can show so many shortcuts and tricks, to avoid adding bones to the Bone pile, I can bend conduit, just like the man who taught me, I was the best until I trained a bunch of guys that are out there, bending it, better than Beckham I just went up north to Oakland off the couch and bent 300 ft of half inch conduit without a mistake, every whitch Way and every kind of v
Bend you can imagine, even a shepherd's hook offset

[zhumusic-ngtr]

So do we use rise or height. Ypu only mentioned lenght of the obstruction. These videos piss me off

[deasanguy]

Hello sir, quick question how come the 22.5 multiplier is 2.5 instead of 2.6? Everything else is the same multiplier when doing offset but only 22.5 is different….

[susanadams]

For the math babies, the "multiplier" is the slope of the angle.