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I remember a few months back a long discussion of people looking
for where to buy hickys (conduit benders). People were failing in lots of places which used to work. Well ... recently, I was in "Home Despot" getting some electrical fixtures (outlets, boxes, etc) and noticed at the end of the asile where the wire and conduit type fittings were, a display of three sizes of hickys -- 1/2", 3/4" and 1". So -- they *are* out there, and not in a particularly esoteric place. Enjoy, DoN. -- Remove oil spill source from e-mail Email: | (KV4PH) Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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"DoN. Nichols" fired this volley in
: a display of three sizes of hickys -- 1/2", 3/4" and 1". They have gooses' bridles over in the outdoor section, too. LLoyd |
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 05:49:42 -0500, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote: "DoN. Nichols" fired this volley in : a display of three sizes of hickys -- 1/2", 3/4" and 1". They have gooses' bridles over in the outdoor section, too. We, um, won't ask -why- you knew that, Lloyd. -- If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. --P.J. O'Rourke |
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On 10/24/2016 11:57 PM, DoN. Nichols wrote:
I remember a few months back a long discussion of people looking for where to buy hickys (conduit benders). People were failing in lots of places which used to work. .... I recall the general thread but wasn't it a particular one somewhat out of the run-of-the-mill the OP was looking for???? |
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 08:05:15 -0500
dpb wrote: On 10/24/2016 11:57 PM, DoN. Nichols wrote: I remember a few months back a long discussion of people looking for where to buy hickys (conduit benders). People were failing in lots of places which used to work. ... I recall the general thread but wasn't it a particular one somewhat out of the run-of-the-mill the OP was looking for???? Yeah, he wanted one that would work with 1/2 inch EMT (thin wall). All he could find were for 1/2 inch ridged. He did find one eventually in someones old stock at a reasonable price, if I remember correctly... -- Leon Fisk Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b Remove no.spam for email |
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 08:05:15 -0500
dpb wrote: On 10/24/2016 11:57 PM, DoN. Nichols wrote: I remember a few months back a long discussion of people looking for where to buy hickys (conduit benders). People were failing in lots of places which used to work. ... I recall the general thread but wasn't it a particular one somewhat out of the run-of-the-mill the OP was looking for???? Yeah, he wanted one that would work with 1/2 inch EMT (thin wall). All he could find were for 1/2 inch ridged. .... Not that it matters but wasn't it t'other way 'round? EMT is pretty common; as noted the box stores have them...rigid, "not so much" any more; they expect you to buy the prefab bends, etc., it seems...plus, it's a lot more work to bend even 1/2" rigid... (yeah, I'm hangin' around this am inside waiting for a service rep call, looking for diversion while waiting... ) |
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 09:05:28 -0500
dpb wrote: snip Not that it matters but wasn't it t'other way 'round? EMT is pretty common; as noted the box stores have them...rigid, "not so much" any more; they expect you to buy the prefab bends, etc., it seems...plus, it's a lot more work to bend even 1/2" rigid... All true but EMT is harder to bend without kinking. I suspect that there was a change made in the Electric Code too. Something like minimum radius for 1/2 inch EMT that would be easy to violate with this Hickey. I tried finding some at the time and all I came up with were for 1/2 inch ridged. Which would also work with 3/4 inch EMT in theory... (yeah, I'm hangin' around this am inside waiting for a service rep call, looking for diversion while waiting... ) Good luck with the waiting. Getting anyone to call or email ME back nowadays is pretty rare... -- Leon Fisk Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b Remove no.spam for email |
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:35:23 -0400
Leon Fisk wrote: Original poster was: Cydrome Leader May 17 I was looking for a 1/2" EMC hickey for some tight, ugly bends, but don't see any in any catalogs. A few places still make rigid/IMC hickeys for 1/2 but are these compatible or they too loose, and will collapse thinwall? See: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topicsearchin/rec.crafts.metalworking/hickey$20AND$20bender$20AND$20after$3A2016$2F04$2F 01$20AND$20before$3A2016$2F09$2F01/rec.crafts.metalworking/CPV5Wu8Nd5s -- Leon Fisk Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b Remove no.spam for email |
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On 10/25/2016 9:40 AM, Leon Fisk wrote:
.... I was looking for a 1/2" EMC hickey for some tight, ugly bends, ... Ah, yeah, I forgotted--it was the very tight bends OP was after was the prime problem... |
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dpb wrote:
On 10/24/2016 11:57 PM, DoN. Nichols wrote: I remember a few months back a long discussion of people looking for where to buy hickys (conduit benders). People were failing in lots of places which used to work. ... I recall the general thread but wasn't it a particular one somewhat out of the run-of-the-mill the OP was looking for???? It was me. I was looking for the fabled 1/2" EMT hickey. You can still get rigid 1/2" and up hickeys. Finally I found an old stock Ideal cast iron hickey made for 1/2 EMT. Let's just say it's more of a tubing collapser than bender, but if you crawl the hook along the bend you can get a much tighter radius than with a normal bender. |
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dpb wrote:
On 10/25/2016 9:40 AM, Leon Fisk wrote: ... I was looking for a 1/2" EMC hickey for some tight, ugly bends, ... Ah, yeah, I forgotted--it was the very tight bends OP was after was the prime problem... It's all fixed now, without a daisy chain of pull boxes. Here's something else I came across, elsewhere. The colors are a bit off from adjusting the pic so you could see the secret outlet. http://www.panix.com/~presence/amazing-outlet.jpg My guess is something once plugged into that outlet and ran into the box below, and there may have been a cover in place. Still super weird. |
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On 25 Oct 2016 04:57:57 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
wrote: I remember a few months back a long discussion of people looking for where to buy hickys (conduit benders). People were failing in lots of places which used to work. Well ... recently, I was in "Home Despot" getting some electrical fixtures (outlets, boxes, etc) and noticed at the end of the asile where the wire and conduit type fittings were, a display of three sizes of hickys -- 1/2", 3/4" and 1". So -- they *are* out there, and not in a particularly esoteric place. Enjoy, DoN. They have ALWAYS been readilly available if you know anything at all about buying tools and electrical supplies. You won't find them at WallMart - - - |
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:01:55 +0000 (UTC)
Cydrome Leader wrote: snip Here's something else I came across, elsewhere. The colors are a bit off from adjusting the pic so you could see the secret outlet. http://www.panix.com/~presence/amazing-outlet.jpg My guess is something once plugged into that outlet and ran into the box below, and there may have been a cover in place. Still super weird. I like it. Nice way to keep people from unplugging something that shouldn't be. Once you put the cover on no one would suspect it was there -- Leon Fisk Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b Remove no.spam for email |
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On 10/25/2016 12:45 PM, Leon Fisk wrote:
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:01:55 +0000 (UTC) Cydrome wrote: snip Here's something else I came across, elsewhere. The colors are a bit off from adjusting the pic so you could see the secret outlet. http://www.panix.com/~presence/amazing-outlet.jpg My guess is something once plugged into that outlet and ran into the box below, and there may have been a cover in place. Still super weird. I like it. Nice way to keep people from unplugging something that shouldn't be. Once you put the cover on no one would suspect it was there What I was thinking, too...and mounting the handy box inside the larger at 90 degrees does leave enough room for the plugs and the cover...looks to me like probably they had to either thread the cord through and reconnect at the business to use a molded, integral plug though??? Not enough conduit diameter to feed a plug thru, is there??? |
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 12:17:30 -0500, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote: fired this volley in : They have ALWAYS been readilly available if you know anything at all about buying tools and electrical supplies. You won't find them at WallMart - - - I sure didn't have any trouble finding mine, in a 'kit' with two of the most-common heads. And I got mine at Lowes. (HD, same-same). The most-common being 1/2" and 3/4"? I can find damnear anything, and for a great price, on either eBay.com or Amazon.com. The Home Depot (as stated), Homedepot.com, and Craigslist.com usually have local stuff, too. Any electrical supply has hickeys, though, and those are in nearly every town in many countries. I'm surprised that so few people think of those when they shop for something potentially hard-to-find. -- If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. --P.J. O'Rourke |
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:56:45 -0500
dpb wrote: On 10/25/2016 12:45 PM, Leon Fisk wrote: snip I like it. Nice way to keep people from unplugging something that shouldn't be. Once you put the cover on no one would suspect it was there What I was thinking, too...and mounting the handy box inside the larger at 90 degrees does leave enough room for the plugs and the cover...looks to me like probably they had to either thread the cord through and reconnect at the business to use a molded, integral plug though??? Not enough conduit diameter to feed a plug thru, is there??? Yeah, my thoughts too that you would still have to wire in a plug/cable. A larger entryway would be better, big enough to fish a plug through. Just something I hadn't seen before and probably wouldn't have thought up myself. Filed away in my head now in case one day it might be useful ;-) -- Leon Fisk Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b Remove no.spam for email |
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On 10/25/2016 11:25 PM, Larry Jaques wrote:
.... Any electrical supply has hickeys, though, and those are in nearly every town in many countries. I'm surprised that so few people think of those when they shop for something potentially hard-to-find. .... Well, I for one always think of them, but if there's _any_ alternative I'll go elsewhere as OTC pricing is simply exorbitant -- not just high but obscene. I needed a flex conduit 1" box termination and they charged me almost $20!!!! Could almost have driven the 60 mi to nearest HD for the difference excepting for the time... |
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On 10/26/2016 7:16 AM, Leon Fisk wrote:
.... Just something I hadn't seen before and probably wouldn't have thought up myself. Filed away in my head now in case one day it might be useful ;-) I'd not either, not sure I'd'a thunk of it also, but it surely made me think of my dad -- be something he'd come up with, likely! There are a lot of home-engineered solutions around the farmstead that are just duck-soup simple but effective similar to that one...but it wouldn't have surprised me to see something like that at several of the utility generation plants for an instrumentation installation that wasn't intended necessarily as permanent. Did a lot of one-of-a-kind tests over the years in the former consulting life where might need to take lab instrumentation to the boiler floor such that a temporary rigging similar to the above would be "the cat's meow"... |
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On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 08:23:48 -0500
dpb wrote: I'd not either, not sure I'd'a thunk of it also, but it surely made me think of my dad -- be something he'd come up with, likely! That's kinda funny, my Dad was the same way. A lot of his solutions were far from elegant or pretty but got the job done... -- Leon Fisk Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b Remove no.spam for email |
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@dont-email.me: That's kinda funny, my Dad was the same way. A lot of his solutions were far from elegant or pretty but got the job done... My dad didn't have a 'hickey', but understood the need and purpose of EMT... so he packed his (hard!) with sand, and bent them around a barn post. Hey... it worked! Washing the sand back out was a chore, though. Lloyd |
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If the second big box was not there, there would be room for a metal
cover on the wall plug. Also get around the cord through a cover. I can see where that would be useful. Child proofing. Have the plug in and cover on, have the plug out and the cover on. The cord would be captive in a plastic squeeze down feed through. Martin On 10/25/2016 4:56 PM, dpb wrote: On 10/25/2016 12:45 PM, Leon Fisk wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:01:55 +0000 (UTC) Cydrome wrote: snip Here's something else I came across, elsewhere. The colors are a bit off from adjusting the pic so you could see the secret outlet. http://www.panix.com/~presence/amazing-outlet.jpg My guess is something once plugged into that outlet and ran into the box below, and there may have been a cover in place. Still super weird. I like it. Nice way to keep people from unplugging something that shouldn't be. Once you put the cover on no one would suspect it was there What I was thinking, too...and mounting the handy box inside the larger at 90 degrees does leave enough room for the plugs and the cover...looks to me like probably they had to either thread the cord through and reconnect at the business to use a molded, integral plug though??? Not enough conduit diameter to feed a plug thru, is there??? |
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Leon Fisk wrote:
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:56:45 -0500 dpb wrote: On 10/25/2016 12:45 PM, Leon Fisk wrote: snip I like it. Nice way to keep people from unplugging something that shouldn't be. Once you put the cover on no one would suspect it was there What I was thinking, too...and mounting the handy box inside the larger at 90 degrees does leave enough room for the plugs and the cover...looks to me like probably they had to either thread the cord through and reconnect at the business to use a molded, integral plug though??? Not enough conduit diameter to feed a plug thru, is there??? Yeah, my thoughts too that you would still have to wire in a plug/cable. A larger entryway would be better, big enough to fish a plug through. Just something I hadn't seen before and probably wouldn't have thought up myself. Filed away in my head now in case one day it might be useful ;-) I checked the rest of the pics from that weird setup and it makes a bit more sense now with some context. The unused electrical box below was probably for an alarm or access system for a bank vault. It's possible they had to secure the power plug, but would/could not allow third party people to hardwire stuff into the building. Keycard/door systems and even phone PBXs that mount on those plywood boards sometimes seem to be configured where everything looks permanent but it's all running off a dedicated outlet you can just unplug. |
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On Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 12:25:29 AM UTC-4, Larry Jaques wrote:
I can find damnear anything, and for a great price, on either eBay.com or Amazon.com. The Home Depot (as stated), Homedepot.com, and Craigslist.com usually have local stuff, too. Warning a minor gloat coming. Today I cruised thru the local scrap yard and found almost nothing. But did find a Gardner Bender 1/2 inch emt hickey. Well not the whole thing, it was just the head, no handle. But kind of nice with a bubble level and arrows indicating the angle bent. It is cast aluminum and the guy at the scrap yard did not charge me for it. Dan |
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On 10/25/2016 11:25 PM, Larry Jaques wrote: ... Any electrical supply has hickeys, though, and those are in nearly every town in many countries. I'm surprised that so few people think of those when they shop for something potentially hard-to-find. ... Well, I for one always think of them, but if there's _any_ alternative I'll go elsewhere as OTC pricing is simply exorbitant -- not just high but obscene. I needed a flex conduit 1" box termination and they charged me almost $20!!!! Could almost have driven the 60 mi to nearest HD for the difference excepting for the time... My home town had to Electrical supply houses. The old line store would only deal with contractors, and they could take a half day to pull the order for over the counter sales. The other gave me a $2,000 line of credit the first visit. I bought most items by the bag/box/bundle/reel, so I got their column D pricing on everything. A typical stop was $100 to $500. They pulled the order in under 15 minutes, and loaded it into my truck. The guys that worked out of a beater car would complain that they only needed one or two items, so they should get priority. The manager informed them that I bought in full quantities and I paid cash. I saw one buy six feet of Romex and two clamps. It took about half as long to get that, as the entire list of my order. They argued that I wasn't an electrician. They were told that I did industrial electronics work, where downtime was expensive to my customers. Their customers were too cheap to hire a licensed contractor. -- Never **** off an Engineer! They don't get mad. They don't get even. They go for over unity! ;-) |
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On 10/29/2016 7:46 AM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:
.... My home town had to Electrical supply houses. The old line store would only deal with contractors, and they could take a half day to pull the order for over the counter sales. The other gave me a $2,000 line of credit the first visit. I bought most items by the bag/box/bundle/reel, so I got their column D pricing on everything. ... Oh that there were a second here, still...when "ol' Shuf" was still alive (original owner of the locally-owned one here from way-back, since sold and now resale/wholesale only) had account there. They transitioned out of any OTC sales 10-15 yr ago now so we're left with only the large corporate outlet that has no local say in what they do; everything "according to the book" from corporate. Service is no problem; just pricing if not licensed contractor. |
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On Sat, 29 Oct 2016 08:46:13 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote: dpb wrote: On 10/25/2016 11:25 PM, Larry Jaques wrote: ... Any electrical supply has hickeys, though, and those are in nearly every town in many countries. I'm surprised that so few people think of those when they shop for something potentially hard-to-find. ... Well, I for one always think of them, but if there's _any_ alternative I'll go elsewhere as OTC pricing is simply exorbitant -- not just high but obscene. I needed a flex conduit 1" box termination and they charged me almost $20!!!! Could almost have driven the 60 mi to nearest HD for the difference excepting for the time... My home town had to Electrical supply houses. The old line store would only deal with contractors, and they could take a half day to pull the order for over the counter sales. They were so cutthroat they cut their own? (good) I've known stores like that, and I've never done business with them, either. The other gave me a $2,000 line of credit the first visit. There ya go! That's the type of store to visit. I bought most items by the bag/box/bundle/reel, so I got their column D pricing on everything. A typical stop was $100 to $500. They pulled the order in under 15 minutes, and loaded it into my truck. The guys that worked out of a beater car would complain that they only needed one or two items, so they should get priority. I have felt that way at times, but I realized that the store had to take care of the moneymakers first, so I didn't complain. The manager informed them that I bought in full quantities and I paid cash. I saw one buy six feet of Romex and two clamps. It took about half as long to get that, as the entire list of my order. Most electricians don't care, as the time spent in the store is billed to the customer, in many cases. They argued that I wasn't an electrician. They were told that I did industrial electronics work, where downtime was expensive to my customers. Their customers were too cheap to hire a licensed contractor. Farkin' Sparkies. Likely -union-, too. spit We have a Platt Electric distributor around here, and they're really good guys. Most of their stuff is damned expensive, though. I seldom buy there, but when I do, the wait isn't long at all. They have annual BBQs, too, so I'm well fed and given discount coupons at the same shindig, so it works out nicely. -- If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. --P.J. O'Rourke |
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On Sat, 29 Oct 2016 08:48:11 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote: wrote: On Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 12:25:29 AM UTC-4, Larry Jaques wrote: I can find damnear anything, and for a great price, on either eBay.com or Amazon.com. The Home Depot (as stated), Homedepot.com, and Craigslist.com usually have local stuff, too. Warning a minor gloat coming. Today I cruised thru the local scrap yard and found almost nothing. But did find a Gardner Bender 1/2 inch emt hickey. Well not the whole thing, it was just the head, no handle. But kind of nice with a bubble level and arrows indicating the angle bent. It is cast aluminum and the guy at the scrap yard did not charge me for it. Dan Great deal. I've had mine for almost 45 years. Your free one, Mikey? Cool! -- If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. --P.J. O'Rourke |
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Michael A. Terrell wrote:
dpb wrote: On 10/25/2016 11:25 PM, Larry Jaques wrote: ... Any electrical supply has hickeys, though, and those are in nearly every town in many countries. I'm surprised that so few people think of those when they shop for something potentially hard-to-find. ... Well, I for one always think of them, but if there's _any_ alternative I'll go elsewhere as OTC pricing is simply exorbitant -- not just high but obscene. I needed a flex conduit 1" box termination and they charged me almost $20!!!! Could almost have driven the 60 mi to nearest HD for the difference excepting for the time... My home town had to Electrical supply houses. The old line store would only deal with contractors, and they could take a half day to pull the order for over the counter sales. The other gave me a $2,000 line of credit the first visit. I bought most items by the bag/box/bundle/reel, so I got their column D pricing on everything. A typical stop was $100 to $500. They pulled the order in under 15 minutes, and loaded it into my truck. The guys that worked out of a beater car would complain that they only needed one or two items, so they should get priority. The manager informed them that I bought in full quantities and I paid cash. I saw one buy six feet of Romex and two clamps. It took about half as long to get that, as the entire list of my order. They argued that I wasn't an electrician. They were told that I did industrial electronics work, where downtime was expensive to my customers. Their customers were too cheap to hire a licensed contractor. Ha! 6 feet of romex. The friendly electrical supply house here will load your vehicle up even if you're clearly not in the trade. The other places with the shiny showrooms seem to be bothered by any sort of counter sale. They also seem to have huge warehouses full of nothing as even simple stuff doesn't seem to be in stock for some reason. I don't get it, but whatever. |
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On 10/29/2016 7:46 AM, Michael A. Terrell wrote: ... My home town had to Electrical supply houses. The old line store would only deal with contractors, and they could take a half day to pull the order for over the counter sales. The other gave me a $2,000 line of credit the first visit. I bought most items by the bag/box/bundle/reel, so I got their column D pricing on everything. ... Oh that there were a second here, still...when "ol' Shuf" was still alive (original owner of the locally-owned one here from way-back, since sold and now resale/wholesale only) had account there. They transitioned out of any OTC sales 10-15 yr ago now so we're left with only the large corporate outlet that has no local say in what they do; everything "according to the book" from corporate. Service is no problem; just pricing if not licensed contractor. What's the name of corporate? Graybar and CED in Chicago are both good. CED doesn't seem to play the game of higher prices unless you can come up with an account number though. |
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On 10/29/2016 11:27 PM, Cydrome Leader wrote:
wrote: .... ... we're left with only the large corporate outlet that has no local say in what they do; everything "according to the book" from corporate. Service is no problem; just pricing if not licensed contractor. What's the name of corporate? Graybar and CED in Chicago are both good. CED doesn't seem to play the game of higher prices unless you can come up with an account number though. Well, the "large" is comparatively, it's a regional outfit of about 20 locations in KS/MO. They go by Stanion Wholesale Electric. Doesn't keep them from being most unfriendly price-wise to anything OTC, though... |
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On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 18:24:43 -0700 (PDT)
" wrote: snip Today I cruised thru the local scrap yard and found almost nothing. But did find a Gardner Bender 1/2 inch emt hickey. Well not the whole thing, it was just the head, no handle. But kind of nice with a bubble level and arrows indicating the angle bent. It is cast aluminum and the guy at the scrap yard did not charge me for it. Nice find. They go for $20-30 new around here. And that is without the handle. Handles are sold separately. Had to buy mine new (1/2 and 3/4 in). Just scrounged up the appropriate sized pipes for handles. What you got is what we just called a bender in this area. A Hickey is a slightly different animal. Nice little pdf file I found he https://www.quia.com/files/quia/user...onduit_Bending It has a drawing on the first page of a regular EMT bender and a Hickey. Brief description of usage. A lot of nice bending tips, measurements too if you're new to this -- Leon Fisk Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b Remove no.spam for email |
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@dont-email.me: A lot of nice bending tips, measurements too if you're new to this It's a good review if you only bend thinwall about once every three years, like I do. grin Lloyd |
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On Sun, 30 Oct 2016 09:20:22 -0500
"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote: Leon Fisk fired this volley in news:nv4njt$n5o$1 : A lot of nice bending tips, measurements too if you're new to this It's a good review if you only bend thinwall about once every three years, like I do. grin Lloyd It (pdf) would have been really, really helpful when I started out as an apprentice. Other than the obvious measurements for 90 deg bends and some tutoring from other workers I was on my own. Figuring out offsets and other complex bends was great fun. Couplings were your friend I never saw a short "hickey" back then. It was just in the last 10 years or so that I learned about them. It would have been a useful tool to have had around back then. We had other tricks to make tighter bends than what was standard but a think a hickey would have been able to beat them... -- Leon Fisk Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b Remove no.spam for email |
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On 10/30/2016 4:44 AM, dpb wrote:
.... Well, the "large" is comparatively, it's a regional outfit of about 20 locations in KS/MO. They go by Stanion Wholesale Electric. Doesn't keep them from being most unfriendly price-wise to anything OTC, though... When returned to family farm, there were existing farm accounts at all the businesses with which do routine business and none other than Stanion and one other which had changed ownership gave any hassle at all in just changing name on accounts from Dad...the latter did require a minimal credit form but Stanion's required a commitment of a continuing level of activity on a monthly basis that obviously as farm just generally don't have ongoing activity. So, w/ the loss of Sunflower Electric (the other, locally-owned formerly great location now seemingly dealing only in very large commercial activity as the storefront is closed entirely and the only activity I see is large reels of cable and other materials in/out of the lot), they're the only distributor in town of all things electric outside what the Ace Hardware and Meade Do-It Best outlet have. They'll cover the ordinary household wiring for the most part, but will have nothing industrially-sized... But, I did just for grins go look and I see the current credit application at the Stanion site no longer does have the additional requirements and will accept a list of existing other commercial accounts as their references...I guess maybe they've gotten enough other "pushback" to back off some, it appears. I may just have to have another go at it--the local Mr Goodwrench dealership just changed hands as well and they've been quite unaccomodating in transferring existing accounts, too, so I've got to go thru the same exercise there again...mayhaps as well do two rather than just one I suppose if have to update the list at all... |
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On Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 8:04:40 AM UTC-4, Leon Fisk wrote:
Nice find. They go for $20-30 new around here. And that is without the handle. Handles are sold separately. Had to buy mine new (1/2 and 3/4 in). Just scrounged up the appropriate sized pipes for handles. What you got is what we just called a bender in this area. A Hickey is a slightly different animal. Nice little pdf file I found he Leon Fisk Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b Remove no.spam for email Definately a bender not a hickey. I had a bender for 3/4 inch conduit, but have not seen it since moving to the East Coast. It was a genuine Sears model. I try to make a pass thru the scrap yard at least once a week. Usually I find nothing, but sometimes I find something interesting. Dan |
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On 2016-10-30, Leon Fisk wrote:
[ ... ] What you got is what we just called a bender in this area. A Hickey is a slightly different animal. Nice little pdf file I found he https://www.quia.com/files/quia/user...onduit_Bending It has a drawing on the first page of a regular EMT bender and a Hickey. Brief description of usage. A lot of nice bending tips, measurements too if you're new to this Interesting. What the PDF calls a "bender" the electrician in the lab where I used to work called a "hickey", so that is the term that I have used. (And boy did he make it look easy. :-) And that means that what I said I saw at Home Depot was what the PDF file called a "bender", not a "hickey". Enjoy, DoN. -- Remove oil spill source from e-mail Email: | (KV4PH) Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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Cydrome Leader wrote:
Ha! 6 feet of romex. The friendly electrical supply house here will load your vehicle up even if you're clearly not in the trade. The other places with the shiny showrooms seem to be bothered by any sort of counter sale. They also seem to have huge warehouses full of nothing as even simple stuff doesn't seem to be in stock for some reason. I don't get it, but whatever. Around 1990, I was building a TV station in Destin, Florida. There was a branch of an electrical supply house that I used, back home. They refused to sell to me. So, I smiled and said, "No problem. I'm going home on Friday evening, so I'll by it at that branch. I'll also ask the manager to contact corporate, to report you." All of a sudden, a cash sale was OK. Then I discovered that they only stocked Black White & Brown THHN in 14 AWG. I needed to replace a damaged wiring harness of over 200 conductors, so it was real fun with only three colors. -- Never **** off an Engineer! They don't get mad. They don't get even. They go for over unity! ;-) |
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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
... Cydrome Leader wrote: Ha! 6 feet of romex. The friendly electrical supply house here will load your vehicle up even if you're clearly not in the trade. The other places with the shiny showrooms seem to be bothered by any sort of counter sale. They also seem to have huge warehouses full of nothing as even simple stuff doesn't seem to be in stock for some reason. I don't get it, but whatever. Around 1990, I was building a TV station in Destin, Florida. There was a branch of an electrical supply house that I used, back home. They refused to sell to me. So, I smiled and said, "No problem. I'm going home on Friday evening, so I'll by it at that branch. I'll also ask the manager to contact corporate, to report you." All of a sudden, a cash sale was OK. Then I discovered that they only stocked Black White & Brown THHN in 14 AWG. I needed to replace a damaged wiring harness of over 200 conductors, so it was real fun with only three colors. For those who may not know: https://www.bradyid.com/en-us/produc...d-cable-labels |
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