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Been helping a friend put some conduit up today to run cat5e and phone cable down to the shed/office in his garden.
His son is doing a plumbing course at college and was keen to help with the conduit and bending,
His method of putting an off set into the conduit was to get a butane torch and warm it up until he could basically form it into shape.
We let him carry on and watched with interest, he let the conduit go pretty soft, but not melt, he kept the torch about 5 inches from the conduit and kept it moving, then put the end into the adaptor in the pattress box. then whilst still soft bent the off set in so looked tidy and placed the upright part into the saddle, held it in place and used wet rag to set it good.
Have to say i never had considered doing that myself, i was about to get the bending spring out.
I asked him is this what they teach you at college these days? his answer was interesting, they don't teach us much to be fair, its mainly health and safety rubbish and then how to pass the course assessments, He says he learns more watching youtube! Sad really as he clearly wants to learn and thankfully has an apprenticeship lined up now after struggling to get taken on.
That pretty much sums up the courses in college these days, teach to pass not teach to actually give somebody a skill they can use and build upon. I had a lad work with me for a bit of experience recently, he had nearly finished his 2365 L3 and was next to useless at bending metal conduit, had to teach him how to mark it out and bend correctly.
His son is doing a plumbing course at college and was keen to help with the conduit and bending,
His method of putting an off set into the conduit was to get a butane torch and warm it up until he could basically form it into shape.
We let him carry on and watched with interest, he let the conduit go pretty soft, but not melt, he kept the torch about 5 inches from the conduit and kept it moving, then put the end into the adaptor in the pattress box. then whilst still soft bent the off set in so looked tidy and placed the upright part into the saddle, held it in place and used wet rag to set it good.
Have to say i never had considered doing that myself, i was about to get the bending spring out.
I asked him is this what they teach you at college these days? his answer was interesting, they don't teach us much to be fair, its mainly health and safety rubbish and then how to pass the course assessments, He says he learns more watching youtube! Sad really as he clearly wants to learn and thankfully has an apprenticeship lined up now after struggling to get taken on.
That pretty much sums up the courses in college these days, teach to pass not teach to actually give somebody a skill they can use and build upon. I had a lad work with me for a bit of experience recently, he had nearly finished his 2365 L3 and was next to useless at bending metal conduit, had to teach him how to mark it out and bend correctly.
