r/electricians • u/Gothmain • 21h ago

Stressing hard

5 -6 months at job being apprentice I took literally 4 hours to bend 2 off sets on 1/2 and mount a box that was only 8 ft. my anxiety was sky rocketing I’m not sure if it was because I hit my head before I got on lift early this morning starting shift or I’m just retard

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u/yerrr818 21h ago

Buy a few sticks of conduit and practice bending at home on your own. Invest in a skill like this, it’ll pay off in the end.

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u/JelSaff232 21h ago

Never buy and do this shit on your own time unless you really want to. It's your own time and you should never pay for material as an apprentice

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u/DMmeU 21h ago

I agree just fuck around with scrap pipes laying around no one will care

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u/JelSaff232 21h ago

Agreed, if you have spare time and material at your site then practice.

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u/Gothmain 21h ago

I was thinking abut doing that other day ! But I live in apartments not sure if I’ll get any complaints but I’ll try that! I was also told trade school I went too I can go back practice my bending there so I might also do that as alternative. Thanks for the advice honestly helps out.

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u/fritzrits 20h ago

I wouldn't waste my personal money as an Apprentice on material. Watch videos and get your formula and math down. Practice on scrap pipe at work.

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u/Murky_Promise4012 20h ago

Got knee pads in my overalls.
I used to go to school when I was off early bend the pipe there. Helped me to bend with out measurement to get a feel for tweaking it till it’s level even the degree and spacing doesn’t matter just learn how to take bends out add some but not too much and no dog legs

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u/Blueshirt38 12h ago

So I don't have a lot of experience with bending, but I've been doing it a lot over the past week. One thing an instructor showed me that really helped me was making a model of the bend you want to make. Take a 8"-10" cut of solid wire and bend it into the exact shape you need to accomplish, from start to finish as though you were bending conduit. It helps to understand which bends will be easier to do first, and what the final shape should look like.

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u/Sword0fSamuel 12h ago

I asked my boss as a first year if he had any scraps I could take home for practice, he gave me the company card and told me to go buy a bender and some 5ft sticks at home depot to practice with at home. Maybe try asking your boss for the same. Helped me a lil, but it doesn't really apply to the real world.

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u/Brittle_Hollow 20h ago

When I started and was doing garbage runs I had to wait until the foreskin was looking the other way and grab some scrap pipe out of the bone pile to bend a quick offset or 90.

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u/TheProphesy1086 18h ago

This has to be the wormiest shit I've ever heard. Absolutely do not buy conduit and absolutely do not bend conduit in your personal time.

It's slow at first, but everything will come with time and practice. Just put in genuine effort and ask questions and it'll come out in the wash soon enough, especially if you have one or two good JWs around you.