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Explore PVC Conduit Bending Options

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Electrician Apprentice Does his 1st PVC Cold Bend! Father teaches a PVC Conduit Hack, Thoughts?

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What happens here

The video starts with an apprentice trying unsuccessfully to bend PVC conduit by hand. The master electrician dad then explains various methods for bending PVC. These include using a heat gun, a heating blanket (sometimes placed in a truck tailgate or exhaust for heat), or a specialized internal spring tool like the Rack-A-Tiers Pipe Viper. He introduces the Pipe Viper as a "slinky-like" spring that is inserted into the conduit.

Goal: Understand the different techniques available for bending PVC conduit.

Tools and materials

  • Conduit Heating Blanket — An alternative method for heating and bending PVC conduit, potentially using vehicle exhaust heat
  • Heat Gun — An alternative method for heating and bending PVC conduit
  • PVC Conduit — The subject material for bending demonstrations
  • Rack-A-Tiers Pipe Viper — Demonstrating the internal spring bending method

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the way in. Lit. How do you PVC conduit? Well, a couple ways. You can get your heat gun out. You can heat that baby up or you could get the Rocketeers Viper type Viper. It's a spring. It looks like a slinky. You stick it down. You bend that right over your knee. Do you know where you want to make a 90? >> Uh, I want to make a 90. Yeah. Towards the end. >> Okay. Right there on the ground. 1/2 in. >> Yeah. I don't use a conduit bender. >> No. >> They don't make that for PVC at all. >> No. >> No. They make a heating blanket. Sometimes you could put that in your tailgate of the truck on your camp cuz you have an electric truck. There was times that I would actually stick a pipe in my muffler. >> What? >> Okay. >> And uh heat it up. Uh there's many ways. You just got to heat it up. Put it in the oven. >> So PVC is heat and EMT is bending. >> Correct. >> All right. All right. >> Stick that all the way in. Leave the tag hanging out. >> Slinky. >> Yep. >> All right.

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