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Electrician Hack; How do an Offset in less then 5 Seconds💪 Use a Little Kicker Bender #electrician

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This project demonstrates how to quickly and efficiently create a precise offset bend in electrical conduit using a kicker bender, specifically for fitting conduit into an electrical box. It highlights the advantages of using a kicker bender over a manual bender for achieving clean and professional fractional offsets, and briefly discusses considerations for bending PVC conduit.

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And I'm just going to push down on this handle. Oh, wow. That's way easier. I can't get this pipe in this box. Hey, Dad. How do you do an offset? Well, there's two ways to do an offset. You can use a manual bender or you could use a little quicker bender. Oh, okay. You always need to offset it to get into a box, right? Okay. So, how much offset do we need? We need about 10°. This is a very fractional offset. You're much much better using this. It'll look better. What I want to do is open up the kicker. Put it all the way in till it won't go in any further. Stop right there. Okay. And then I'm just going to push down on this handle. >> Oh wow, that's way easier. And this will go. That's way easier, Puffs. That's way easier. Why don't you just use that? I do, but you got to be able to do both with the hand bender. Of course, I prefer the little kicker. That's a way you can judge a lot of people's work. Just looking around at offsets. >> Yeah, really. Some guys don't even put an offset. They just wedge it in there and then strap it back and it kind of >> Yeah. What about like PVC conduit? Do I need to do an offset with PVC? I think it can just like flex right in, right? >> Sort of. Yeah, PVC will give a little bit. You could always heat it up and then it'll actually move a little bit if it's that acute. But PVCs normally we don't use them offset. All right. All right. >> All right. Thanks, Dan.

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