20mm PVC conduit crossover / hopover?

[overskilled]

Don't do much conduit work...finishing my garage wire up and socket conduit needs to hopover the light circuit conduit. Can you buy these ready made or is it a case of bend your own?
*tin helmet on*

 

[Hellmooth]

Gives you some thing to stare at for 5 minutes and be proud of

 

[Dave OCD]

Gives you some thing to stare at for 5 minutes and be proud of

At the 3rd attempt

 

[Lagentium]

If it's in your own property, I'd strip it out again and join it all together, making it look neater. If not and you make your own bubble set, with you not doing much conduit, have a few bashes at it first and don't be worried about throwing an earlier attempt away, there's an interesting technique to warm the conduit up to make it bend easier, just make sure the wife doesn't walk up behind you while you're doing it, she may think you're doing something else........

 

[7029 dave]

IMO I would not heat it up or try bending it over your knee, it's all about hands.

 

[Lagentium]

You must have a fair pair of hands to do that without bending it over your knee! Or are my hands a bit small?

 

[7029 dave]

You must have a fair pair of hands to do that without bending it over your knee! Or are my hands a bit small?

LOL you do know that plastic conduit bending with spring is all about hands, not to say you can't with knees, I bend steel with the legs of the bender too. (tip for you)

 

[Hellmooth]

Why wouldn't you heat it up or bend it with your knees? Having something to get purchase helps in general.

 

[KWCFC]

I bend steel with the legs of the bender too. (tip for you)

Struggling to picture this... How do you manage that?

 

[Darkwood]

They are..mainly as the lights are broken up (to allow me to have light while fixing another) and it results in that 20mm being on the full size..

Got the spring already, just a matter of time saving, why spend the time bending it when you can buy off the shelf...

Because the next time your stuck on a job and short of a few manufactured versions it wouldn't half be handy to have learnt to produce your own sets accurately and quickly everytime, I can bend and form one around my knee faster then plugging and glueing manufactured bits together - plus a smooth pipe bubble set looks more professional than a load of plug ad play pieces IMHO, although it is your garage at the end of the day

 

[7029 dave]

QUOTE=KWCFC;1145644]Struggling to picture this... How do you manage that?[/QUOTE]

I learnt this from an old sparky, just to take a bit out of an set or tweak a bit, how can I explain this without showing. If you don't believe then I can't help, but not telling fibs.

 

[DPG]

Who'd have thought a thread about benders would get this much interest Daz

 

[Hellmooth]

It is in theory a simple 5-10 min job lol, especially as the OP already has the spring, I think it looks a lot better done with a bend than using pre made bends/junctions.

 

[7029 dave]

It is in theory a simple 5-10 min job lol, especially as the OP already has the spring, I think it looks a lot better done with a bend than using pre made bends/junctions.

It is not simple, any form of setting conduit whether it be plastic or steel takes practice.

 

[7029 dave]

Why wouldn't you heat it up or bend it with your knees? Having something to get purchase helps in general.

https://youtu.be/WlQfKY7eY8c

 

[Hellmooth]

We're talking a small crossover in a bit of PVC conduit, not tens of sets of metal pipe here.......

 

[Hellmooth]

Just watched all the video, completely missed the point, what was the relevancy of it?

 

[Hellmooth]

He could have used his knee to start the bend and got the same result, and he did heat the pipe up lol?

 

[overskilled]

Personally bending conduit either goes well or is a disaster entirely....lol

my own garage so not a major issue having a few tries at it...

bloke in the video looked a bit lethal with a hacksaw tbh...

 

[Hellmooth]

Personally bending conduit either goes well or is a disaster entirely....lol

my own garage so not a major issue having a few tries at it...

bloke in the video looked a bit lethal with a hacksaw tbh...

Yes it can turn into a bit of a mess lol, 5 lengths of conduit later :29:

I was pushing the idea as it is your own garage so even if it is off slightly it's no big deal!

Yeah he was lol, at least he smiled a lot though........