Conduit bending table

[Smart $]

Speaking of which, is there something online that references that?

None that I know of... but then again, I haven't tried to find anything of the sort. The closest I've ever seen in any documentation is back-to-back 90? bends.

 

[celtic]

Marc, when we came across this situation ('00) we just improvosed in the field. We had hundreds (if not thousands) of feet of 4" GRC to run for a MV cable pull.

 

[K2500]

Has anybody ever tried to use a enerpac (GB) 2 1/2 - 4" eegor bendor with a greenlee 1801 bending table? I dislike the bending table that Gardner Bender sells and would like to buy the Greenlee 1801. But would rather not purchase a new $14000.00 Greenlee 881CT bender. Any thoughts or advise? Also I am new to forum and not sure if this is posted in the right spot.

I've never used the 1801, but I do like the enerpac STB type benders(with the electric pump). A quick search says they are about $6,000. We had to make a stand and bolt it to the box to set it upright, but it's a good bender. It will do 3/4" to 4", and belive it or not with a little fabricating it will do 6". Well, maybe a lot of fabricating.

 

[quogueelectric]

for emt

for emt

Whenever you have a 4" set up I think it is allways a good idea to bend up a set of 5 degree four point saddles X2 on a stick of 4" you can use this with manufactured bends to make almost any bend or kick

 

[mdshunk]

Whenever you have a 4" set up I think it is allways a good idea to bend up a set of 5 degree four point saddles X2 on a stick of 4" you can use this with manufactured bends to make almost any bend or kick

The mention of manufactured bends brings up something that I think about sometimes.

It's certainly a time-saver to use factory 90's and 45's when you dealing with 1-1/4" and bigger. It just somehow makes me feel like less of a man to employ factory bends in my work. I do anyhow, but I don't feel especially good about it. I take a certain amount of pride in my bending skills, and using factory 90's sometimes messes with my pride.

Anyone else feel the same way sometimes, when you're using a factory bend that you could have just as easily bent yourself and not had to use couplings?

 

[peter d]

Anyone else feel the same way sometimes, when you're using a factory bend that you could have just as easily bent yourself and not had to use couplings?

Not really. We recently did a new service for a Starbucks remodel which was located in a downtown hotel. It would have been an absolute nightmare to set up the bending table there (occupied building, no space available in the basement), as it was hard enough just to find parking and getting material into the building. Sometimes the factory elbows have their place, and that job was definitely one of them.

 

[celtic]

Manufac. bends do have their place ....BUT....they are NOT always the same ~ imagine that!
Next time you have a pile of manufac. 90 ?'s laying about (especially the larger sizes)....take some time and give them the heavy eye:
- are they true 90?'s?
- all of them?
- are the legs the same length?

It's amazing how a manufac. item doesn't always remain the "same".

 

[mdshunk]

Not really. .

Not even sometimes ?

 

[FNCnca]

- are they true 90?'s?
- all of them?
- are the legs the same length?

It's amazing how a manufac. item doesn't always remain the "same".

For many years I worked in a facility that bent "factory" elbows. The guages that were used for quality control, were not much better than "eyeballing" them. They were just majic marker layouts on plywood.

 

[peter d]

Not even sometimes ?

If it were up to me, I would bend everything with the table bender or the "Smart Bender". Back to reality, the factory elbows do come in handy many times. That's all I was trying to say.