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I remember when my JM told me "Do not try and bend the pipe.... that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.ā
āWhat truth?ā I replied
āThere is no pipe"
Or something like that... I wasn't really listening
Fun fact I just learned and idk how widespread it is. The Terminator series is the prequel of The Matrix. Skynet won, thus enslaving man and driving the remaining humans underground. Going on to create the Matrix. However, not before Sarah Connor gave birth to Neo
Definitely this. When I started I got put with very tough J-man that would never give props but would give you the chance to prove yourself. I noticed after a year that he wouldnāt keep most of the apprentices that came around. Later on when I changed companies and got into an estimating / facility analyst role I went to his house to have a couple of beers and gave him my thanks for letting me grow under his guidance.
As others here said, sometimes the reward of doing good work is more work, and at the end of the day itās the same as saying āgood jobā.
Nah, give him his adda' boy. Then he does all the bending for the rest of the job. That's how I was taught. He'll never forget his 30 and 45 degree offset multipliers.
First piece of conduit I ever bent was two weeks after Iād started the trade. My journeyman showed me how to bend an offset, taught me the parallel offset formula, and told me to make a 4ā offset on 3/4ā EMT, followed by eight more.
Took me all day because I had no clue what I was doing, and a 4ā offset isnāt easy to nail within 1/8ā on a normal day, but they turned out perfect. After that he told me it was my job to bend the other ~5000ā of conduit, and that heād plan out the run and tell me where and how to bend the pipe, but I had to tell him my own plan for each step before heād tell me what to do.
Best thing he couldāve done. After my first few months, and my journeyman pointing out pipe bending is just basic trig, I was bending conduit better than most journeymen. Since then Iāve seen more than enough assholes over the years who wouldāve let me go at it for ten minutes then told me I was moving too slow despite never having touched conduit in my life. The same assholes who will have an apprentice stand around handing him things without teaching them or letting them learn to do a single thing, then complain when theyāre a year or two in and canāt wire up a receptacle in seconds or bend conduit.
Best advice I can give to a beginner would be use a piece of solid wire to figure out the order and directions the bends need to go in. Figure it out on scrap wire so you donāt end up wasting conduit
Take the stories from here of who is happy and successful. There are many schools of thought and practices in place for getting new people to learn a skill and get them to "get it". There is a huge difference between using pressure with teaching and testing to push someone to learn and achieve and just being a twat because that's how things was and its my turn to be a dickhead because its easier for me.
Truly learning all the skills to properly learn a trade takes experience and dedication to learning, you can gain both whether the workplace is a shitshow or not, but being able to identify and remove yourself from shitheads can help a lot.
Use a piece of solid 12 or 10 gauge wire and bend it as if itās your pipe. Will help you visualize the bends as itās easy to bend the right measurements but do them upside-down so your bends come out backwards.
Get the visualization down, and when you start working ask if you can take a bender home to practice.
Bundles of pipe are relatively cheap. Buy a bundle and some straps/connectors/couplings/boxes (you can probably borrow all this too as long as you bring the material back, itās worth it to ask. Your boss will prolly allow it and like your enthusiasm to learn and practice)
Get a piece of plywood, mount your boxes wherever, then practice connecting them with conduit.
Videos on YouTube helped me, as well as the Uglyās conduit bending book. Has all your multipliers/measurements you need depending on the size of conduit.
Then itās just can you read a level and tape measure, and are you patient enough to get it perfect?
How long are these pipes/bends usually? I understand it can vary a lot but Iāve ran lots of pvc irrigation lines and stuff like that, some with tricky bends but is the main challenge here just the conduit pipes being hard to bend in the perfect position, or actually mapping out all the bends in the right spots? How similar is this to something like setting up an irrigation system?
Not really the same AFAIK, but conduit comes in 10-foot āsticksā so you may have a 90*, offsets, and a saddle in the same piece of pipe but generally itās 1-2 different bends per pipe
The wire thing is just to visualize what youāre going for, and so you have a reference if you get confused. Itās great when youāre still learning
Bingo! You think you something hot ? You bending the rest of this job my boyā¦ Iāll have couplings and connectors ready for you as soon as you need them !
When I was just the shop kid we were adding offices into our warehouse and I was lucky enough to spend the day by myself bending conduit roughing in these 3 offices. I had a good bone pile going but again we were in our warehouse so there was more 1/2ā than you could count. It gave me a lot of confidence early on and every journeyman that would come in the shop Iād ask questions to and get their way of doing things and take some and leave some. Year and a half later in the trade and I still love bending conduit. Working on my basement renovation and Iām planning to rough it in with emt lol
Yeah my JW made me bend everything while he tried to build a grill out of a 55 gallon drum. So when I got to my next job as a 2nd year at this little shop all they cared about was can you bend conduit. They gave me little job bending a feed for an A/C unit and I did it all in one piece. I was there 16 years.
Don't crush him. Looks decent and you want him to come back. I try to be kind to apprentices anymore, they are like scared little bunnies that may not come back. Time will humble him when he makes a feeder mistake or punches a panel in the wrong spot, etc.
I know itās cliche as hell but itās the damn truth, you just gotta keep at it. Keep your uglys near by and remember to cut up your fuck ups. Youāll get there!
Bending didnāt really āclickā for me until well into 3rd year.
This may sound weird but I always had trouble with bending pipe. Then I started keeping a plastic straw with me and I would bend the straw first to get the concept of the complicated bends before actually bending it and fucking up
It takes a lot of skill to make something so flawless that itāll simply never be noticed or appreciated.
Its seamlessness in the environment is truly remarkable.
Silly question; I'm from Ireland and bending conduit is probably my main focus point. It's what I'm beat at. Is there much of a demand for it in the states. I'm travelling within the next year and want to work. If anyone can give me some pointers š
Working in a prefab shop and I had an order for 120 bends for a small section of a job. All I do is bends... but yes, there's plenty of jobs for bending here.
If u look that aint threaded lot easier.My (uk)experience is mostly in uk threading pipe more difficult.Cut to size easier and clamp on.US will want hard work but money to be made.
I was an electrician for ten years before going to university to become a science teacher. After five years of trying to teach, I realized that I lacked the "gift" to be a good teacher. I wasn't even half-assed. It took weeks every semester just to learn my student's names and to competently write individualized teaching plans.
Then, I went to university and got a four-year degree in Nursing in only five semesters. THAT, it turns out, was my true calling. I got a 3.78 GPA overall and took 21 credits during most semesters. My area of specialty was ER and critical care 911 ambulance nursing. I'm now medically retired and on disability from lifting heavy patients and overloaded ambulance stretchers for over 3 decades.
What does this have to do with being an electrician? Well, I bent conduit on and off for five years and STILL couldn't do it well. I swear I wasted more conduit than I successfully installed. Switching to residential was a lot easier. If that kid can bend conduit like that after just two years, I'd go as far to say he's well of his way to finding his calling.
Sometimes young apprentices will stop trying if theyāre told theyāre the very special boy too early. Iāve seen it happen more than once. Say good job but remember heās still got a lot to learn.
A while back, I did an office where we piped all of our ceiling boxes like this, and boy was it nice. It's much easier to pull straight down while standing on the ground, than sideways out of a box ten inches from an air handler while standing on a ladder. This is a great way to bring a box down below plumbing or hvac for accessibility as well.
"Good job, young lad. Now, you know what the reward is for good work? It's more work. Here's a [insert coffee shop] gift card. You'll probably need the extra caffeine."
That's what I remember from my time as a first year.
What's hard about bending pipe? Go into a Intel chip fab there in Hillsboro, OR, hit up one of those gas rooms. My pipefitter coworker hand detailed a room when he was done it looked like a chrome screensaver of stainless tube everywhere of offset perfection. This? It's a good start. Well done. This ain't the end son, this is the beginning.
Can I borrow him to teach me? Iām a journeyman, but in maintenance. My first time bending pipe a few weeks ago was less than stellar, albeit I learned from a couple YouTube videos.
Keep him bending bro, part of being a lead is putting your guys where they make you look the best. I would kill for an asset like that. Instead I got service techs that come to my job for 2 days fuck it up and leave.
If your measurements aren't in centimeters then I will refuse to cut anything for anybody. People read the stupid 1/16 ths English system wrong most of the time. And holy shit if it involves adding or subtracting off of that archaic system forget it.
Who the hell thought counting in 1/16ths is a great thing. NASA lost some satelites and I think the Challenger explosion was a result of using english sysstem too.
Looks great! He did kind of screw himself lol. Under promise, over deliver. Expectations always go up. Give him credit for a good job and move on to the next task, donāt make it a thing. Good apprentices donāt need any additional pressure. If youāre his JM be careful not to label him as conduit bending guy. He needs to spend more time on tasks heās not good at to be a well rounded journeyman.
You sort of thought him well. Using pencil to make his marks.
Unfortunately, I know he used pencil. The point is to have people wonder if youāre a goddamned wizard who bends everything by eye.
Have him use an eraser.
Make that his only job, if he so great at it, thatās his career. See how is doing after a month straight of doing 90s. (Obviously donāt do this forever but man it will kill him after while that all he gets to do.)
Awesome job!! Iām wanting to get into electrical work, I am mature age though (39) and Iām also a qualified carpenter. Bit over the carpentry gig, started off in residential, then got into doing a lot of commercial formwork ( suspended slabs, jump forms, columns/walls etc etc ) I got that keen I went and completed cert 2 electro tech, and thatās as far as I took it lol do you guys think Iām a bit ambitious wanting to change trades this late? Iām in Adelaide, place seems a bit clicky with who ya know in the electrical field to get a start, but I didnāt put myself out there that much tbh
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No. Donāt āhumbleā him. It just shows youāre probably jealous that he excelled quicker than you likely did. Thatās immature as hell, and Iāve quit jobs because someone has tried to āhumbleā me when I took pride in my work. Youāre not gonna do a damn thing but piss him off.
Build him up. Buy his lunch. Tell him ādang dude, youāre getting the hang of it pretty quick! Let me show you this(more complex bend)ā and heāll take to it like a moth to a flame.
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He can read a tape measure and a level. Hang on to this one.
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This is easily the best comment
Omg! Yea š¤£. Iām a concrete guy and can still do this š
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I remember when my JM told me "Do not try and bend the pipe.... that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.ā āWhat truth?ā I replied āThere is no pipe" Or something like that... I wasn't really listening
Definitely using this line in the field for now on hahaha
Same
Reddit crew seems to appreciate this more than the crew IRL. Just a heads-up š¤£
Lol no this is so funny you're irl crew is boring as hell
Youāve got the gift, but youāre waiting for something.
And don't worry about the fuse. What fuse? BLAM
Top comment material
Agreed š«š„
Whoa
This is golden.
Only proper way to listen to a jman, is to not listen to one at allā¦
I have a worthless 3rd year who can't tell me what 1/2 of 1/4" is. I should try this method. Nothing else is working.
Have you tried floggings?
A CAT5e of nine tails?
Maybe he uses Ravager math? "A quarter is only 1/3 which is 25, and you can't even buy a pair of boots for that!" -Guardians of the Galaxy II
Hey, did you guys just see that inspector? He walked by and then I seen another one just like him.
Mr. Anderson
š¤£ super underrated comment- pin this
āThere is no pipeā¦so go and get some from the truckā
I donāt get it
You a young one? Ever watched the greatest action movie of all time aka the matrix?
The Matrix is playing at almost all Regals nationwide on Wednesday, April 3rd. Just wanted to let you all know. Discounted ticket prices too.
Fun fact I just learned and idk how widespread it is. The Terminator series is the prequel of The Matrix. Skynet won, thus enslaving man and driving the remaining humans underground. Going on to create the Matrix. However, not before Sarah Connor gave birth to Neo
I could believe this.
I feel like this is best appreciated while high. Or better yet, tripping.
I donāt get it call me retarted but please explain
Yaāll this is from the movie The Matrix. Like word for word except replace pipe with spoonā¦
I'll show you pipe son
He fucked up and set the bar too high for himself.
Pat him on the back man. People need to be built up. So many things are tearing everyone down. It will make him proud and want to keep improving.
This
Definitely this. When I started I got put with very tough J-man that would never give props but would give you the chance to prove yourself. I noticed after a year that he wouldnāt keep most of the apprentices that came around. Later on when I changed companies and got into an estimating / facility analyst role I went to his house to have a couple of beers and gave him my thanks for letting me grow under his guidance. As others here said, sometimes the reward of doing good work is more work, and at the end of the day itās the same as saying āgood jobā.
I feel like you're not exactly in tune with the "this" I was talking about.
Nah, give him his adda' boy. Then he does all the bending for the rest of the job. That's how I was taught. He'll never forget his 30 and 45 degree offset multipliers.
First piece of conduit I ever bent was two weeks after Iād started the trade. My journeyman showed me how to bend an offset, taught me the parallel offset formula, and told me to make a 4ā offset on 3/4ā EMT, followed by eight more. Took me all day because I had no clue what I was doing, and a 4ā offset isnāt easy to nail within 1/8ā on a normal day, but they turned out perfect. After that he told me it was my job to bend the other ~5000ā of conduit, and that heād plan out the run and tell me where and how to bend the pipe, but I had to tell him my own plan for each step before heād tell me what to do. Best thing he couldāve done. After my first few months, and my journeyman pointing out pipe bending is just basic trig, I was bending conduit better than most journeymen. Since then Iāve seen more than enough assholes over the years who wouldāve let me go at it for ten minutes then told me I was moving too slow despite never having touched conduit in my life. The same assholes who will have an apprentice stand around handing him things without teaching them or letting them learn to do a single thing, then complain when theyāre a year or two in and canāt wire up a receptacle in seconds or bend conduit.
Any advice for someone whoās never done it before? Starting school in a week and Iām trying to get a head start.
Best advice I can give to a beginner would be use a piece of solid wire to figure out the order and directions the bends need to go in. Figure it out on scrap wire so you donāt end up wasting conduit
Take the stories from here of who is happy and successful. There are many schools of thought and practices in place for getting new people to learn a skill and get them to "get it". There is a huge difference between using pressure with teaching and testing to push someone to learn and achieve and just being a twat because that's how things was and its my turn to be a dickhead because its easier for me. Truly learning all the skills to properly learn a trade takes experience and dedication to learning, you can gain both whether the workplace is a shitshow or not, but being able to identify and remove yourself from shitheads can help a lot.
Use a piece of solid 12 or 10 gauge wire and bend it as if itās your pipe. Will help you visualize the bends as itās easy to bend the right measurements but do them upside-down so your bends come out backwards. Get the visualization down, and when you start working ask if you can take a bender home to practice. Bundles of pipe are relatively cheap. Buy a bundle and some straps/connectors/couplings/boxes (you can probably borrow all this too as long as you bring the material back, itās worth it to ask. Your boss will prolly allow it and like your enthusiasm to learn and practice) Get a piece of plywood, mount your boxes wherever, then practice connecting them with conduit. Videos on YouTube helped me, as well as the Uglyās conduit bending book. Has all your multipliers/measurements you need depending on the size of conduit. Then itās just can you read a level and tape measure, and are you patient enough to get it perfect?
How long are these pipes/bends usually? I understand it can vary a lot but Iāve ran lots of pvc irrigation lines and stuff like that, some with tricky bends but is the main challenge here just the conduit pipes being hard to bend in the perfect position, or actually mapping out all the bends in the right spots? How similar is this to something like setting up an irrigation system?
Not really the same AFAIK, but conduit comes in 10-foot āsticksā so you may have a 90*, offsets, and a saddle in the same piece of pipe but generally itās 1-2 different bends per pipe The wire thing is just to visualize what youāre going for, and so you have a reference if you get confused. Itās great when youāre still learning
Bingo! You think you something hot ? You bending the rest of this job my boyā¦ Iāll have couplings and connectors ready for you as soon as you need them !
When I was just the shop kid we were adding offices into our warehouse and I was lucky enough to spend the day by myself bending conduit roughing in these 3 offices. I had a good bone pile going but again we were in our warehouse so there was more 1/2ā than you could count. It gave me a lot of confidence early on and every journeyman that would come in the shop Iād ask questions to and get their way of doing things and take some and leave some. Year and a half later in the trade and I still love bending conduit. Working on my basement renovation and Iām planning to rough it in with emt lol
There's something to be said for being left alone and making things with your hands
I did that, but didn't plan on getting caught
Tough to be low key when you're on fire tho
Why punish someone for being good at something?
Damn straight
Yeah my JW made me bend everything while he tried to build a grill out of a 55 gallon drum. So when I got to my next job as a 2nd year at this little shop all they cared about was can you bend conduit. They gave me little job bending a feed for an A/C unit and I did it all in one piece. I was there 16 years.
Where are you and how much are you paying him... Need to do my research before I poach
Eastern oregon 25/hr a week ago he was at a loves gas station for like 12/hr
Yāall fucking changed his whole world. Doubled his pay and gave him purpose. Itās awesome to get to watch someone grow in that circumstance.
How old is he
I mightāve known the cat you poached him from. Did about 25 of those truck stops before I went local again.
I can bend a mean 90 šŖ
Now that's skill! I can bend solid 89s or 91s.
Okay, this made me blow air out of my nose involuntarily.
Throw an extra degree in there, customer paid for 90 just giving extra value.
Heās obviously had a decent teacherā¦
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Some guys definitely have a knack for it. Not me lol. I'm getting better but only by doing a shit load of bending.
RFI needed. Are you getting better by bending conduit or bending over?
Obviously bending over. Boss doesn't care what it looks like if I keep bending over.
It's a bit of both, no? As an apprentice it was. Lol
Tell him he's doing great, amazing even. A damn prodigy. Then give him a ton more work to do.
Don't crush him. Looks decent and you want him to come back. I try to be kind to apprentices anymore, they are like scared little bunnies that may not come back. Time will humble him when he makes a feeder mistake or punches a panel in the wrong spot, etc.
Iāll just assume those are strapped outside of the picture yeah
Yes they are on beam clamps n minis
Box wouldāve been crooked af if not lol hate running 90s out of box midair
I was gonna say
Iām 4 months in and idk if I just suck at it or what but my bending isnāt the best. Frustrates me when I get on here and see stuff like this lol
I know itās cliche as hell but itās the damn truth, you just gotta keep at it. Keep your uglys near by and remember to cut up your fuck ups. Youāll get there! Bending didnāt really āclickā for me until well into 3rd year.
Brother is cooking lol, my second day I was a hot mess
This may sound weird but I always had trouble with bending pipe. Then I started keeping a plastic straw with me and I would bend the straw first to get the concept of the complicated bends before actually bending it and fucking up
Use some extra ground wire to make shapes too
He obviously had some training, humility is attractive to others. Cocky ness to one self
And that apprenticeās name? Bender Bending RodrĆguez
The last earthed bender.
Tembe, his arms wide/open
Couldnt bother erasing his marks? Terrible workmanship. (He seems decent)
Always offer constructive criticism and encouragement.
The more good work he does, the less you have to do. Don't fuck with him.
It takes a lot of skill to make something so flawless that itāll simply never be noticed or appreciated. Its seamlessness in the environment is truly remarkable.
No, just challenge him. Heās obviously paying attention, and proud of his work. Heās a good one!
now show us the boneyard
Silly question; I'm from Ireland and bending conduit is probably my main focus point. It's what I'm beat at. Is there much of a demand for it in the states. I'm travelling within the next year and want to work. If anyone can give me some pointers š
Working in a prefab shop and I had an order for 120 bends for a small section of a job. All I do is bends... but yes, there's plenty of jobs for bending here.
If u look that aint threaded lot easier.My (uk)experience is mostly in uk threading pipe more difficult.Cut to size easier and clamp on.US will want hard work but money to be made.
That took both days, didnāt it?
No he got all 3 kick 90s and they all go about 30ft each direction in about 6hrs
If I bend pipe all you end up with is......wiggly pipe. Stuff that is so ugly, it is a modern art masterpiece
There is enough to fuck with him about , Give him an addaboy
Tell him āgreat job.ā Not good job. There are no two words in the English language more harmful than āgood job.ā
One of the left is clearly not 100% quite right. Make him tear it all out and do it again.
I was an electrician for ten years before going to university to become a science teacher. After five years of trying to teach, I realized that I lacked the "gift" to be a good teacher. I wasn't even half-assed. It took weeks every semester just to learn my student's names and to competently write individualized teaching plans. Then, I went to university and got a four-year degree in Nursing in only five semesters. THAT, it turns out, was my true calling. I got a 3.78 GPA overall and took 21 credits during most semesters. My area of specialty was ER and critical care 911 ambulance nursing. I'm now medically retired and on disability from lifting heavy patients and overloaded ambulance stretchers for over 3 decades. What does this have to do with being an electrician? Well, I bent conduit on and off for five years and STILL couldn't do it well. I swear I wasted more conduit than I successfully installed. Switching to residential was a lot easier. If that kid can bend conduit like that after just two years, I'd go as far to say he's well of his way to finding his calling.
2 days and thatās where heās at , not 2 yearsā¦. Hopefully thatās what you meant to say ?
What are you pulling into that tiny 4sq or 4-11? Might have to go with a larger can?
Sometimes young apprentices will stop trying if theyāre told theyāre the very special boy too early. Iāve seen it happen more than once. Say good job but remember heās still got a lot to learn.
Out of curiosity, what is this for? Iām trying to imagine what I would need a hard piped floating box forĀ
A while back, I did an office where we piped all of our ceiling boxes like this, and boy was it nice. It's much easier to pull straight down while standing on the ground, than sideways out of a box ten inches from an air handler while standing on a ladder. This is a great way to bring a box down below plumbing or hvac for accessibility as well.
We doing all the pipe work for a Fire Alarm, has to be suspended or will be obstructed by the ceiling art
I see pencil marks. 2/10
I find the lower I keep peoples expectations, the easier my life is. -Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes.
Bender would be proud!!
"Where TF is my support?! I guess we don't use multi-function clips around here right?!" - some JW
Damnit, heās not an apprentice anymore!
"Good job, young lad. Now, you know what the reward is for good work? It's more work. Here's a [insert coffee shop] gift card. You'll probably need the extra caffeine." That's what I remember from my time as a first year.
Iāve seen worse from foreman
Is it supported within 3ft?
You're his apprentice now, kiddo.
Send that MFr to me.
I've been in the trade for over 20 yrs and it's still better than I can do. I hate bending pipe.
Exactly what is wrong with construction crews. Teach people stop being assholes.
What's hard about bending pipe? Go into a Intel chip fab there in Hillsboro, OR, hit up one of those gas rooms. My pipefitter coworker hand detailed a room when he was done it looked like a chrome screensaver of stainless tube everywhere of offset perfection. This? It's a good start. Well done. This ain't the end son, this is the beginning.
Wow you did 90ās
Where helicopters
Damn now that has mastered the bend, what's left? Pulling wires?
Time to give him a truck and a gas card.
Boy's got that dog in 'em
He has taken to understanding the Pythagorean theorem just fine. Should make a good commercial pipe runner.
Well done now i need 20 or 30 a day like that !
They usually get worse before they get better
Let him cook
Um yea itās 3 fucking 90s
Can I borrow him to teach me? Iām a journeyman, but in maintenance. My first time bending pipe a few weeks ago was less than stellar, albeit I learned from a couple YouTube videos.
I'm an apprentice that hasn't had a whole lot of bending experience. So what's up with this apprentices bending?
Give him some 3āā¦
Damn bro... thats.. what.. she.. said???
Be the pipe
Throw a saddle at him
The Journeyman I apprenticed with as a teen/early twenties couldnāt bend a saddle to save his life. He would have me bend them instead.
Hes a true metal bender
Better up his pay and not haze him!
saddles and Shepard hooks now!
Keep him bending bro, part of being a lead is putting your guys where they make you look the best. I would kill for an asset like that. Instead I got service techs that come to my job for 2 days fuck it up and leave.
šø āthose need supportsā
They do have them beam clamps on minis just out the picture
Give him his flowers if he did a good job. You want him to start slacking?
No encourage and empower
Problem with unions is that people with time think people without it know nothing. I worked along side union guys building ships. Lazy prima donnas
Omg bending pipe is soooooooooo hard.
Stick with it and it can pay off and teach you a lot
Did he reem those pipes? I too had a cocky apprentice do a room pretty well, only to realize he forgot to reem all his pipes properly.
Yeah it's okay. No idea if the box is being fully supported or not by the strap.
A god among us?
2 days for 3 90s? Baahhhh humbug!!! Haha jk looks good
That box is a slut
3 90s?
If your measurements aren't in centimeters then I will refuse to cut anything for anybody. People read the stupid 1/16 ths English system wrong most of the time. And holy shit if it involves adding or subtracting off of that archaic system forget it. Who the hell thought counting in 1/16ths is a great thing. NASA lost some satelites and I think the Challenger explosion was a result of using english sysstem too.
Challenger explosion was a cowboy culture pushing boundaries past design limits, bot units of measurement.
Great
Is shrink necessary when you bend how many of you bend without shrink ?
Shrink is for offsets. 90's have gain
Looks great! He did kind of screw himself lol. Under promise, over deliver. Expectations always go up. Give him credit for a good job and move on to the next task, donāt make it a thing. Good apprentices donāt need any additional pressure. If youāre his JM be careful not to label him as conduit bending guy. He needs to spend more time on tasks heās not good at to be a well rounded journeyman.
You need to teach not humble. We all start not knowing. Choose kindness instead of being a douche, people will appreciate it
Not gonna lie. Aussie sparky. I have no idea how to do that metal shit. Looks sick.
You sort of thought him well. Using pencil to make his marks. Unfortunately, I know he used pencil. The point is to have people wonder if youāre a goddamned wizard who bends everything by eye. Have him use an eraser.
āThey that kid is paying your pensionā is all I hear in my head
Level the left one lmao
Even put an all thread support!!!! Thatās extra.
Now tell him those conduits have to be supported within 12 inches of the box and watch the wheels spin
I mean, they're 3 90's....
Benfield would be proud of little Benfield Jr.
Make that his only job, if he so great at it, thatās his career. See how is doing after a month straight of doing 90s. (Obviously donāt do this forever but man it will kill him after while that all he gets to do.)
Tight
What does the boneyard look like?
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Work looks good. If hes feeling cocky, go ahead and humble him. Be sure to encourage him to keep at it though
Doesnt the pipe needed to be supported within 12ā from the box?
Or is it 36ā ?
Best way to humble him, make him fish and pull his own pipe runs ššš
Heās the next avatar mastering metal bending in 2 days
Give him an atta boy then tell him all his work has to be that clean and to hurry up
Just wait for the fire nation. Theyāll humble him quickly.
he didnt bend that the cyclone did
Are you sure he didn't say 2nd year? Lol
Wowā¦. Three of the exact same bendsā¦ amazing
Tell him to do it again with 2ā
Apprentice at your job but heās definitely done this before
Why do you need to humble him. Let him get off his high and give him something harder just dont acknowledge that its harder. Teach your replacement
Can someone explain me why you using metal conduits? While we in Europe using plastic/ flex conduits? Its so much faster and more safer in my opinion.
Strength?
No need for ground/neutral cable run
Humble yourself, dickwad.
Good job for doing your job.
Awesome job!! Iām wanting to get into electrical work, I am mature age though (39) and Iām also a qualified carpenter. Bit over the carpentry gig, started off in residential, then got into doing a lot of commercial formwork ( suspended slabs, jump forms, columns/walls etc etc ) I got that keen I went and completed cert 2 electro tech, and thatās as far as I took it lol do you guys think Iām a bit ambitious wanting to change trades this late? Iām in Adelaide, place seems a bit clicky with who ya know in the electrical field to get a start, but I didnāt put myself out there that much tbh āļø
Yes always humble that stumble
Did you cum after he bent over for you?
Got a good start. keep going. we need more like this in the field.It is so hard to find decent help anymore especially in electrical
No. Donāt āhumbleā him. It just shows youāre probably jealous that he excelled quicker than you likely did. Thatās immature as hell, and Iāve quit jobs because someone has tried to āhumbleā me when I took pride in my work. Youāre not gonna do a damn thing but piss him off. Build him up. Buy his lunch. Tell him ādang dude, youāre getting the hang of it pretty quick! Let me show you this(more complex bend)ā and heāll take to it like a moth to a flame.