IDEAL Hand Conduit Benders

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Bending conduit is really an art form that takes practice to learn how to do. The IDEAL family of benders are the industry leading benders and help make the job of bending conduit a lot easier.
IDEAL hand conduit benders have been an industry standard for over 50 years.
I tell guys that bending conduit by hand is really an art form that takes practice especially as you start working with trying to follow the contours of a building and working with nonstandard bends.
Mistakes get expensive quickly especially as the size of the conduit gets larger.
Once the conduit is bent if is not right you are starting over with a new piece.
To learn more about our Hand Conduit Benders visit our website or contact our customer service department to find a distributor nearby.
The Ideal conduit bending system is based on Mr. Benfield’s design established way back in 1955.
They are available in either aluminum heads for lighter duty work or ductile iron heads for heavier duty work and rigid conduits.
The ductile Iron benders also carry a life time warranty.
They are available in sizes for conduits that range from half-inch up to 1 ¼ inch EMT, and up to 1 inch rigid or Intermediate Metal Conduit or IMC
The rugged steel handles offer long-term durability and the baked on blue enamel finish resists corrosion and enhances the benders visibility so you can actually find it in the back to your truck.
Each bender comes with a convenient offset bending guide on the handle and a bender guide is included on how to make all the other basic bends.
The Bender heads are reinforced at stress points for longer life and the raised markings are cast into the
Bender body on both sides for easy visibility when you are working with the bender.
The deeply serrated step on the back of the bender head helps prevent slippage when applying force with your foot to the Bender.
The internal surface of the hook is grooved and helps prevent the conduit from slipping when bending and the flat hook provides a stable starting point.
Electricians use them to bend conduit when installing electrical circuits in a building.
Apprentices are taught to make four basic bends and by using a combination of those bends can install the conduit correctly for those electrical circuits.
The stub bend is the most common bend and is used to create a single 90° change in the direction of the conduit. A Stub Up bend is used to predict the finished height of the conduit after the 90 degree bend. Electricians use it in many applications including feeding an electrical box on a wall that is being fed from the conduit in the floor.
A back to back bend will put two 90 degree bends in a length of conduit. Using the bender we can predict where the backside of the second 90 degree bend will be.
It doesn’t have to be a U shaped bend in the conduit as you may want to run from a coupling 4 feet to a wall and then run down it. Using the bender to create a Back to Back bend you can predict where to make a bend so the back side of the second 90 degree bend hits the wall perfectly.
The offset bend is used when an obstruction requires a change in the conduit’s plane. Electricians use it to route the conduit over the obstruction like when the floor level changes for some reason or they encounter things like duct work in a building.
The Saddle Bend is similar to the offset bend but in this case the same plane is resumed. It is most often
used when a pipe is encountered. Along a wall they will need to bend the conduit so it goes over the pipe then continue along the wall.
By using a combination of these four bends an electrician can install the conduit system for the electrical
wiring in a building. Electrical contractors don’t bend the conduit and then cut it to the correct length.
When they get done bending the conduit is a correct length and shape for the installation.
For instance if they need a stub that is 14 inches tall when they get done bending the conduit the stub is 14 inches tall.
If you’re an electrician learning how to use a conduit Bender is pretty important as most commercial jobs will require it. Once you become good at it you can save yourself a lot of time and effort when installing those electrical services not to mention your value on that jobsite has increased as well.
Contact our customer service department or visit our website to learn more about the hand conduit benders from Ideal.
Thanks for watching I’m Ron with Ideal.
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