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Old 03-21-13 | 10:13 AM
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Originally Posted by MassiveD
....With the bends, I just marked the point where it was clamped in the bender, then I did a bend, measure the bend position, and just copiy that for other similar bends. So if the offset from the mark is 2.125", That just becomes a design module I can insert in any build that uses a similar bend.
This seems like a pretty foolproof method of layout, I've bent a lot of emt using it. BTW it is way easier bending 1/2" than 3/4"emt in terms of force applied, I'm guessing the same is true of stepping up 4130 in OD sizes.

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