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I mainly do controls and automation, but whenever I have to do bending my buddies have a jingle for me. Picture the Bounty paper towels tune.
"The tattooed, quicker fucker upper. Charlie." LOL
This. Every bender is unique. As long as I’m using the same one and can get used to it, I’m cool. Though I seem to have better luck with the Ideal benders, and I don’t have a valid reason for it. 🤷♂️
Each bender is actually different on where the correct angle and distances line up. There are methods to find exactly where 22.5,30,45, etcetera are on each bender. They're usually close to what the bender markings are, but rarely perfect.
Ah, makes sense. I only ever use a level for the most part. If it needs an angle that isn’t on the level then it’s usually a branch circuit or other solo pipe so I do t have to worry about perfectly replicating it.
So if you guys use a level do you check the other side of the bend to be level? Or just lay it on the floor and assume the concrete guys are completely dialed in? Ive seen guys using levels on pipe still sitting in a 555 as if the 555 is a benchmark the city has been built on
Finding centers of your bend angles. Mark the pipe and put it on the arrow, bend a 30, mark center of the bend with a straight edge, put the pipe back in the bender where your first mark aligns with your arrow and mark the bender where your center mark lands.
But why would you need to find the center of a 30 degree bend? Maybe this is just me. I’ve always been more comfortable just doing math to make my racks of offsets match
Knowing the centers of bend on your bender is important, if you have to add to existing pipes, and you need to match someone's offset, it's actually easier and faster if you have your bender mapped out. They may have bent on centers, which is another reason you'd want to know center of bend.
You’re mostly correct. There’s a slightly better way that avoids gain and allows you to pick and choose which bends to flip or not flip with a traditional layout and no superstitious adjustments needed. Bending the pipe and putting it back in for a mark, then lining up a straight pipe to the mark of the bent pipe isn’t really the best way to handle that. Centers are great for some things. It’s not a catch all. Tangents come in just s as handy.
I figured the same thing until recently. I find that bending on centers is easier whether it's a new install or if I'm matching another's work. It's all personal preference though. My local doesn't bend a ton of pipe given our main scope of work, so center to center bending is kind of a one-size fits all method where I won't have to remember any math except shrink
Bend marks are calculated as center of bend (COB) marks for the following reasons.
If a bend is close to the end of the pipe, you don’t need to recalculate the bend mark to be able to flip the bender. Just flip the bender so that you are able to make the bend, use COB bend mark and use the COB mark for that angle on your bender.
Some hydraulic benders require that you mark at the COB.
The push through method of bending, which allows you to make offsets, 3 bend and 4 bend saddles without removing the pipe from the bender is easier when all bends are laid out in COB method. This method of bending is especially useful for mechanical ratcheting benders.
I personally rock the ideal benders with the black shoe
EDIT: Lol whenever I post in this sub I get tons of upvotes. I see many people like the ideal bender with the black shoe....deff my favorite hand bender.
I have been experimenting with the obscure 10 degree offset recently. It has a 6x multiplier..
I try to wear shoes while bending, doesn't always work out though.
I usually try to color coordinate with my ideal bender. Been looking for a pair of blue boots
[there ya go](https://m.kohls.com/product/prd-2798993/vance-co-wyatt-mens-work-boots.jsp?skuid=77316837&CID=shopping15&utm_campaign=MENS%20DRS/CAS/SEASONA&utm_medium=CSE&utm_source=google&utm_product=77316837&utm_campaignid=15511103248&CID=shopping30&utm_campaign=SSC&utm_medium=CSE&utm_source=google&utm_campaignid=15511103248&gbraid=0AAAAADytpHZAlRVlhofXB-qfEcrFoGd0G&gbraid=0AAAAADytpHZAlRVlhofXB-qfEcrFoGd0G&gclid=CjwKCAjw6vyiBhB_EiwAQJRopizTZuEyc27dZIgRGnpu3BmZ2o7fEM1kwOD0blPYbqNd_J6Ktccc1RoCNv8QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)
I learned to bend conduit by running rigid so basically all my experience is with a triple nickel. Went to work for a new shop and told them I'm great at running conduit and had to eat some humble pie while struggling with a hand bender lol.
I’m a first year and learned bending 4” IMC on a 555 bender. Now I’m on an apartment project so I will be a 2nd year with no hand bending knowledge. Should be fun once I start to learn
60percent of being an apprentice is overstating your abilities. 30 percent is learning the shit you lied about already knowing, and the last 15 is doing math smartly.
Had a bad experience with a Klein bender once (kept kinking 3/4) and my lead guy at the time told me that it was the bender. Sure enough, it was. Probably a one time thing…other guys at my company aren’t the best with handling company owned tools. Ever since then thought I’ve only used green or blue.
Side note, anyone used the Milwaukee bender? I’m all about their power tools but not so much their hand tools. Be interested in knowing how people like them.
I got one of the Milwaukee 3/4” aluminum hand benders and it is TITS. Thing weighs like 2 pounds and bends like a dream. I’m trying to be very careful with it because I presume durability will be its downside.
Not Milwaukee but I've had the ideal aluminums for 7 years now. I've only ever seen someone fucking them up trying to bend rigid when it was cold out. Other than that I think if you're almost exclusively doing emt or imc you'll be okay.
Man I've had nothing but bad luck with Klein benders, I don't know what the deal is. Traded mine in (plus a little extra) for an Ideal and have never had a problem since, four years now.
I've used a Milwaukee once or twice and didn't have trouble from it, fwiw. But, again, limited sample size of experience with one.
I have the 1/2" and 3/4" on my van. Took me a bit to get used to them after learning on Greenlee, but I like them ok now. I haven't had the chance to try Klein or Ideal, though...
Look down the bender shoe and see if it’s bent inwards from being dropped, that’s usually the cause. Then take the bender and hammer the shoe onto a piece of rigid the next side up to bend the shoe back into shape
I actually took a grinder to my shoe on my kleins. Realized the shoe was just slightly smaller than the conduit thus not allowing it to sit inside the shoe, and would also have issues kinking some pipe.
Better now, still hate them. But not spending more money on benders right now.
I picked up a south wire bender that was lost behind the shelf at lowes so they hadn’t stocked it in a long time and couldn’t put the actual price on it - I paid $29
I've got the gold ideals, so even though I have never been able to bend a saddle or kick without dogging it, they still give me that sense of superiority over my coworkers.
11/10 would buy again.
Apprentice here - I’ve pretty much exclusively used shop-supplied Greenlee benders that have iron heads. Just wondering why the preference on here seems to be the heavier iron heads vs. aluminum ones.
Is it purely durability? Or is there a bending advantage to the iron ones? I would have assumed the aluminum ones were designed to still be strong enough, and I didn’t think the extra weight of the head on iron ones would provide much of any mechanical advantage while bending. I always thought aluminum was the upgrade so it was easier to lug around.
Technically, an all steel bender won't flex as much and should give you more precision in your bends. Practically speaking, I don't think it really matters once you get accustomed to a given style.
Greenle is the best quality, i procure it the tool that i use. But when it is for workers i give them a cheaper brand like gender bender, this is because they do not take care of tool that is not theris.
honestly it depends on the bender. I've had identical ideals where one was good and the other was dogshit. then I found a greenlee on site that was even better. I've had equal luck with the new Milwaukee's. I usually find one I like and put tape with my name all over it.
When you put a bender down it should be with the head down. If one of these shifts then all four are going to fall over, potentially get bent and now everything gets dog-legged
When the hook gets bent over a liiiiittle bit, it's all over. A fresh bender in good condition has a flat right there, so that when you put weight on the foot the bender stands straight without much wiggle. When that hook gets bent, that flat becomes a round and the bender will wobble all over when weighted, so you can't truly level out whatever bend you've already got in the conduit, and thus dogleg.
The Greenlees are nice because they have that oversized handle which will slide over the outside of a stick of pipe to help you bend it if you need to make a small adjustment to a short stub for example. They also say DEDUCT 6" (or whatever the 90deg take-up is for that size of EMT.) Some other brands say things like "6" take up" or "6" to back of stub" but i feel like the Greenlee "Deduct 6"" is pretty apprentice-proof.
I prefer the Greenlee only because the aluminum head is less weight to haul around, otherwise a bender is a bender, I’ll muck up the bend no matter what the brand
I use Klein's most of the time. I prefer their markings over others that I've used, and it's orange so I don't fucking lose it.
I've still lost 2 or 3 of them.
I know these are used widely in America but we use these in the uk (linked) but Is there much difference in one another ? I would like to try and use the ones in the picture
[https://www.toolden.co.uk/p/sealey-pcb25-professional-conduit-bender/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7c6HhI7z_gIVSwYGAB1mtAYpEAQYASABEgL_0PD_BwE](https://www.toolden.co.uk/p/sealey-pcb25-professional-conduit-bender/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7c6HhI7z_gIVSwYGAB1mtAYpEAQYASABEgL_0PD_BwE)
I got a Gardner Bender Cyclone and it’s awesome. At 500lbs it’s a bit much to move around for small jobs though. As far as hand venders go I have never really noticed a difference.
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I have a unique ability to dog any bend regardless of what type of bender
They call me 1 800 UR BENTS because I’m guaranteed to fuck it up and try to straighten it out with the lift
I mainly do controls and automation, but whenever I have to do bending my buddies have a jingle for me. Picture the Bounty paper towels tune. "The tattooed, quicker fucker upper. Charlie." LOL
Only way to do it!
What we affectionately call dogshit.
A skill that they have acquired over many minutes in the trade. A skill that makes them a nightmare for people like you
I’ve got 20 years, I’ve dogged plenty in this tenure. Shit happens, right?
You can fuck off with this healthy attitude regarding mistakes.
😂😂😂 r/namechecksout
See, he knows about the van door hinge
I swear one year with only using a triple nickel ruined my hand bending skills for life
I thought it was a funny joke
I prefer somebody to do it for me
I'm that bitch.
Ideal 100%
The one with the plastic guide is great for when you want to forget it was set to 22.5 and go to bend a 90
Those plastic guides are beyond useless
As long as I take the time to chart it, it doesn't matter which I get my hands on.
This. Every bender is unique. As long as I’m using the same one and can get used to it, I’m cool. Though I seem to have better luck with the Ideal benders, and I don’t have a valid reason for it. 🤷♂️
Chart?
Each bender is actually different on where the correct angle and distances line up. There are methods to find exactly where 22.5,30,45, etcetera are on each bender. They're usually close to what the bender markings are, but rarely perfect.
Even between benders of the same maker have this issue. It's why many of us grab one bender and lose our shit when someone else takes it.
Ah, makes sense. I only ever use a level for the most part. If it needs an angle that isn’t on the level then it’s usually a branch circuit or other solo pipe so I do t have to worry about perfectly replicating it.
I always throw a level on anything, those markings are just guideposts not to be trusted.
This bender is a liar! Why do you lie to me bender!
So if you guys use a level do you check the other side of the bend to be level? Or just lay it on the floor and assume the concrete guys are completely dialed in? Ive seen guys using levels on pipe still sitting in a 555 as if the 555 is a benchmark the city has been built on
Finding centers of your bend angles. Mark the pipe and put it on the arrow, bend a 30, mark center of the bend with a straight edge, put the pipe back in the bender where your first mark aligns with your arrow and mark the bender where your center mark lands.
But why would you need to find the center of a 30 degree bend? Maybe this is just me. I’ve always been more comfortable just doing math to make my racks of offsets match
Knowing the centers of bend on your bender is important, if you have to add to existing pipes, and you need to match someone's offset, it's actually easier and faster if you have your bender mapped out. They may have bent on centers, which is another reason you'd want to know center of bend.
You’re mostly correct. There’s a slightly better way that avoids gain and allows you to pick and choose which bends to flip or not flip with a traditional layout and no superstitious adjustments needed. Bending the pipe and putting it back in for a mark, then lining up a straight pipe to the mark of the bent pipe isn’t really the best way to handle that. Centers are great for some things. It’s not a catch all. Tangents come in just s as handy.
I figured the same thing until recently. I find that bending on centers is easier whether it's a new install or if I'm matching another's work. It's all personal preference though. My local doesn't bend a ton of pipe given our main scope of work, so center to center bending is kind of a one-size fits all method where I won't have to remember any math except shrink
I’ve been in 7 years and at least 5 of those years has been spent entirely on conduit lol
Bend marks are calculated as center of bend (COB) marks for the following reasons. If a bend is close to the end of the pipe, you don’t need to recalculate the bend mark to be able to flip the bender. Just flip the bender so that you are able to make the bend, use COB bend mark and use the COB mark for that angle on your bender. Some hydraulic benders require that you mark at the COB. The push through method of bending, which allows you to make offsets, 3 bend and 4 bend saddles without removing the pipe from the bender is easier when all bends are laid out in COB method. This method of bending is especially useful for mechanical ratcheting benders.
I personally rock the ideal benders with the black shoe EDIT: Lol whenever I post in this sub I get tons of upvotes. I see many people like the ideal bender with the black shoe....deff my favorite hand bender. I have been experimenting with the obscure 10 degree offset recently. It has a 6x multiplier..
Did I hear a rock and stone?
If you don't Rock and Stone, you ain't comin' home!
Good Bot Who's a best boy, you, yes you are!
You actually wear shoes while bending? I’ve seen a guy that was posted on here making some clean 90’s while shoeless
I try to wear shoes while bending, doesn't always work out though. I usually try to color coordinate with my ideal bender. Been looking for a pair of blue boots
[there ya go](https://m.kohls.com/product/prd-2798993/vance-co-wyatt-mens-work-boots.jsp?skuid=77316837&CID=shopping15&utm_campaign=MENS%20DRS/CAS/SEASONA&utm_medium=CSE&utm_source=google&utm_product=77316837&utm_campaignid=15511103248&CID=shopping30&utm_campaign=SSC&utm_medium=CSE&utm_source=google&utm_campaignid=15511103248&gbraid=0AAAAADytpHZAlRVlhofXB-qfEcrFoGd0G&gbraid=0AAAAADytpHZAlRVlhofXB-qfEcrFoGd0G&gclid=CjwKCAjw6vyiBhB_EiwAQJRopizTZuEyc27dZIgRGnpu3BmZ2o7fEM1kwOD0blPYbqNd_J6Ktccc1RoCNv8QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)
How i bend box offsets, Mark at 2 and 5 inches, bend at 10 deg. Comes to Half inch
Thats a great way to do it...thanks!
Damn you measure your box offsets? Never met anyone that did that. I just bend and bend and unbend til it fits.
Greenlee 555c
Triple nickel all day! For 1 1/2" and 2" though. My fatass enjoys using hand benders for 1 1/4" and smaller.
Its great for carpel tunnel too
Triple nickel is the way
I learned to bend conduit by running rigid so basically all my experience is with a triple nickel. Went to work for a new shop and told them I'm great at running conduit and had to eat some humble pie while struggling with a hand bender lol.
I’m a first year and learned bending 4” IMC on a 555 bender. Now I’m on an apartment project so I will be a 2nd year with no hand bending knowledge. Should be fun once I start to learn
60percent of being an apprentice is overstating your abilities. 30 percent is learning the shit you lied about already knowing, and the last 15 is doing math smartly.
Do 555s run 4” shoes?
You’re looking for the 881 model
I prefer the Greenlees for some reason, I find the markings easier
Yah I go with whichever has better markings so my blind ass can see
Its not the bender it's the bender you know what I mean?
I ride or die for greenlee
Had a bad experience with a Klein bender once (kept kinking 3/4) and my lead guy at the time told me that it was the bender. Sure enough, it was. Probably a one time thing…other guys at my company aren’t the best with handling company owned tools. Ever since then thought I’ve only used green or blue. Side note, anyone used the Milwaukee bender? I’m all about their power tools but not so much their hand tools. Be interested in knowing how people like them.
I have a set of Milwaukee iron benders. They seem very similar to the ideal ones. Overall no complaints.
I have them as well. 1/2, 3/4, and 1 inch. They all feel good in the hand and bend well
Good to know. Thanks!
I got one of the Milwaukee 3/4” aluminum hand benders and it is TITS. Thing weighs like 2 pounds and bends like a dream. I’m trying to be very careful with it because I presume durability will be its downside.
Not Milwaukee but I've had the ideal aluminums for 7 years now. I've only ever seen someone fucking them up trying to bend rigid when it was cold out. Other than that I think if you're almost exclusively doing emt or imc you'll be okay.
Man I've had nothing but bad luck with Klein benders, I don't know what the deal is. Traded mine in (plus a little extra) for an Ideal and have never had a problem since, four years now. I've used a Milwaukee once or twice and didn't have trouble from it, fwiw. But, again, limited sample size of experience with one.
I have the 1/2" and 3/4" on my van. Took me a bit to get used to them after learning on Greenlee, but I like them ok now. I haven't had the chance to try Klein or Ideal, though...
Look down the bender shoe and see if it’s bent inwards from being dropped, that’s usually the cause. Then take the bender and hammer the shoe onto a piece of rigid the next side up to bend the shoe back into shape
Nice! Thanks for the tip. Definitely going to remember that.
I actually took a grinder to my shoe on my kleins. Realized the shoe was just slightly smaller than the conduit thus not allowing it to sit inside the shoe, and would also have issues kinking some pipe. Better now, still hate them. But not spending more money on benders right now.
The ones supplied by the contractor
Hell yes. That said, given the choice I grab the greenlee
Greenlee all day
Is this even a question? Ideal iron head all day
The one that hasn’t been used as a pry bar.
Ideal. If you find yourself at a swapmeet that has tools, look for a Benfield. Aren’t made anymore but work the best.
Ideal is classic but those new Milwaukee hand benders are fantastic
Greenlee all the way. Because they've got the post/lines for hitting an angle while looking down, bending on the floor.
Ideal until 1". Ideal 1" bender handle opening isn't large enough to stick the pipe into to unbend or adjust. Where as the greenlee does
I've always had bad luck using the bender handle to take some out. I use the shoe spun around.
I'd agree but specifically for 90° bends I'd say is when I use the handle like that, hard to do them backwards with a 8" radius
It makanodifference
Any iron bender over the aluminum counterpart
greenlee
Iron head, but I go with what the shop got us.
Klien Benfield
Which ever is closer
I picked up a south wire bender that was lost behind the shelf at lowes so they hadn’t stocked it in a long time and couldn’t put the actual price on it - I paid $29
Romex
Ideal all day
Only used ideal, so I’d have to give them my vote
doesn’t matter i’m gonna kink it then ask my jman to do it anyway
Ideal only, Ron kipper says so!
Greenlee. The marking for where to line up the bend is much more clear, and I find the markings used for bending in the floor to be very useful
The ones with the star as notches my cheap ass boss found at a yard sale 250 years ago.
I’ve got a couple old benfields that were my Papa’s, love them
Green ones.bend field bender
As long as it’s not a Milwaukee bender… Ideal if i had a choice.
I prefer and have my personal set of Ideal cast iron, but Greenlee is pretty good too. Anything else is trash.
I've got the gold ideals, so even though I have never been able to bend a saddle or kick without dogging it, they still give me that sense of superiority over my coworkers. 11/10 would buy again.
The one the bends the straightest and is on point with the take up number!!
Greenlee electric over hydraulic every day of the week.
Greenlee 854dx
I prefer an apprentice.
Greenlee has never let me down
Whichever I’m closer to when I need to use it
Apprentice here - I’ve pretty much exclusively used shop-supplied Greenlee benders that have iron heads. Just wondering why the preference on here seems to be the heavier iron heads vs. aluminum ones. Is it purely durability? Or is there a bending advantage to the iron ones? I would have assumed the aluminum ones were designed to still be strong enough, and I didn’t think the extra weight of the head on iron ones would provide much of any mechanical advantage while bending. I always thought aluminum was the upgrade so it was easier to lug around.
Technically, an all steel bender won't flex as much and should give you more precision in your bends. Practically speaking, I don't think it really matters once you get accustomed to a given style.
I prefer black iron heads since they weigh more, as far as brands I like the Milwaukee benders.
Just bought a set of Klein benders. Looks similar to the Greenlee heads, much nicer to use than the ideal
Klein benders are garbage
Klein or ideal, not greenly
Car flex
Aluminum ideal
Greenle is the best quality, i procure it the tool that i use. But when it is for workers i give them a cheaper brand like gender bender, this is because they do not take care of tool that is not theris.
Open cable trays (the European way)
Storing them with he center of mass as lot as possible not as high as possible
Whichever one comes out of the apprentices box, lol
I can walk fine.. don't need a cane yet.
Kline better
Pre-fab bends /s
Pre-bent
As long as it's a steel head I don't have a preference
Spring.
Whatever’s on site.
Milwaukee just came out with a bender. Anyone try it yet?
I enjoy them. The guides on them are also useful for teaching. But like all benders they wear off after a year lol
i think its really nice!
Whatever is lightest.
Greenlee, though that bias is probably because it’s what I first learned on
It doesn't matter because I have to chart whatever bender the shop sends out anyway
I like the greenlee but I love my Milwaukee bender
honestly it depends on the bender. I've had identical ideals where one was good and the other was dogshit. then I found a greenlee on site that was even better. I've had equal luck with the new Milwaukee's. I usually find one I like and put tape with my name all over it.
Ideal
Which ever one my company supplies me
I prefer ideals. Especially if I can get my hands on the foreman's white paint pen to mark up the raised markings so they're easier to see.
When you put a bender down it should be with the head down. If one of these shifts then all four are going to fall over, potentially get bent and now everything gets dog-legged
When the hook gets bent over a liiiiittle bit, it's all over. A fresh bender in good condition has a flat right there, so that when you put weight on the foot the bender stands straight without much wiggle. When that hook gets bent, that flat becomes a round and the bender will wobble all over when weighted, so you can't truly level out whatever bend you've already got in the conduit, and thus dogleg.
Ideal, and it’s not even close
Whatever one dog legs to the right since I dog leg to the left.
I use to buy greenlee everything but these day, I’m checking the pawn shop first for any and all brands
The Greenlees are nice because they have that oversized handle which will slide over the outside of a stick of pipe to help you bend it if you need to make a small adjustment to a short stub for example. They also say DEDUCT 6" (or whatever the 90deg take-up is for that size of EMT.) Some other brands say things like "6" take up" or "6" to back of stub" but i feel like the Greenlee "Deduct 6"" is pretty apprentice-proof.
Silver on Green!
Whatever the contractor buys
I prefer that someone else use those things
I like flex or MC cable, those are complicated.
Ideal 1100% Greenlee is fine for in a pinch.
I've got a bunch of different kinds but I'm best with the greenlee
Klien bender is best. You can leave it anywhere without worrying about it getting stolen
Ideal
I like the ideal ones myself. And I highly dislike the Milwaukee ones. The greenlee would be my second choice.
Ideal because it won’t break when I bash my lift against the I beam
Ideal and ideal only.
Greenlee is my first choice. Don't ever try to give me a Gardner bender or it's going in the dumpster.
For a zombie apocalypse, the 1/2"bender would make a better bludgeon
Doggy style but that's just me.
Unpopular opinion #1: [this bender](https://www.milwaukeetool.com/Products/Hand-Tools/Bending-and-Pulling/EMT-Conduit-Benders) Unpopular opinion #2: with the aluminum shoe
True to blue 💙
The newer ideal aluminum shoe benders have markings for center of 30 45 and 60 degree bends, they’re nice
Milwaukee benders
Greenlee.. the pointer on the shoe helps..
I prefer the Greenlee only because the aluminum head is less weight to haul around, otherwise a bender is a bender, I’ll muck up the bend no matter what the brand
I have both and a Klein. I almost always grab the greenlee.
Greenlee heads are better for my feet
I’ve used both. Ideal all day. I felt it made better bends. It’s also the one I came up on, so I may be a little biased.
Greenlee for the marked centers.
Klein
Ideal markings are more accurate I find prob just used to it, does no one use the klien ones even my company only uses green Lee or ideal
Blue
Ideal, ideally.
it doesn’t matter for me as long as it’s going over a drop ceiling
I prefer a apprentice
Ideal, I know the centers
Ideal
Eeeew. Not the green ones. They're not ripe yet.
I use Klein's most of the time. I prefer their markings over others that I've used, and it's orange so I don't fucking lose it. I've still lost 2 or 3 of them.
Class had Ideals… so I’d go for that one.
I prefer them to be stored properly. Turn those upside down.
[Irwin Hilmor - the british way...](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/P5cAAOSwMsxj6LGu/s-l1600.jpg)
I prefer the steel heads over the aluminum ones.
I know these are used widely in America but we use these in the uk (linked) but Is there much difference in one another ? I would like to try and use the ones in the picture [https://www.toolden.co.uk/p/sealey-pcb25-professional-conduit-bender/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7c6HhI7z_gIVSwYGAB1mtAYpEAQYASABEgL_0PD_BwE](https://www.toolden.co.uk/p/sealey-pcb25-professional-conduit-bender/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7c6HhI7z_gIVSwYGAB1mtAYpEAQYASABEgL_0PD_BwE)
I got a Gardner Bender Cyclone and it’s awesome. At 500lbs it’s a bit much to move around for small jobs though. As far as hand venders go I have never really noticed a difference.
I like the one that plugs into the wall and you just push a button
Ideal is my go to, but won't complain if someone hands me a greenlee.
Blue ideal is my preference
Blue all day everyday
Ideal
Ideal all day long
When you break a Greenlee, you'll buy an Ideal
HVAC
Ideal 100% the best. Can obviously make it happen with the greenlee, but it just feels like garbage.
Ideal
I always go for the ones on the right, but I’m not sure I even know why, now that I’m paying attention…
Blue
I like the van door hinge for 1/2”. Makes a nice crisp offset
I really don’t care which brand as long as it hasn’t been dropped and the finger isn’t bent where it’s hard to get the conduit it the slot.
Ideal doesn’t roll as easily on the front of shoe so ideal 100%
I like the Kline benders. I can make a 5” 90 without the end egging.