Hilmor conduit bender

[brightspark2010]

Eveneing Gents I was just wondering if a conduit bender can be used to bend conduit without a conduit stop as a guy i know will let me have an old one but he says it has no stop will a bolt or something in its place work?

 

[Guest123]

The hook stop is pretty fundemental in bending pipe.

You can buy spares online, if you can get a bender for free & the hook stop costs you £30 odd, you still have a bargain.

 

[Guest123]

I wasn't too far off with my guess.......

Hilmor T620103 Tube Stop For Cm42/el25/el32/k3b, HIL620103 at Tool Shop Direct

 

[benji]

have to check garage tomorrow

 

[hermetic]

Hilmor Condubend 20mm-25mm Steel Conduit Bender » Product heres the new price, and the build quality looks poor as well!

 

[Darkwood]

I got a CEF brand one for 250 brand new, its a copy of the hilmor and works well, only thing with both of them is the pipe vice are not up to the job and conduit slips while threading , i bought a heavy duty vice and threw the cheap crap it had on it.

 

[Guest123]

I got a CEF brand one for 250 brand new

Bright orange???

 

[highspark]

I bought one of eBay with the exact piece missing however it came with a hooked shape piece of metal which I have no idea where it goes on the bender. This is a heavy duty old school bender. Does anyone have any idea what the hook is for? How do you upload a picture from mobile?

 

[Darkwood]

Bright orange???

yep .... thats the one when i complained about the vice they put me in touch with the manufacturers who said it a copied design and they have realised they copied an existing flaw as well, i got 50 quid credited and bought an heavy duty one elsewhere for 70quid

 

[Darkwood]

I bought one of eBay with the exact piece missing however it came with a hooked shape piece of metal which I have no idea where it goes on the bender. This is a heavy duty old school bender. Does anyone have any idea what the hook is for? How do you upload a picture from mobile?

its probably a locking hook when you close it up and carry it.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

if you know someone with a decent drill and a grinder...some bottles n all....then just get a bit of square bare and warm it up...bend it into a hook....drill hole for the bolt you can do this at one end of a length of bar so you have something to hold onto whilst bending and drilling....then just burn of the end that you`v worked....give it a taste of the grinder to finish ....jobs a good un......

 

[Guest123]

Hilmor Condubend 20mm-25mm Steel Conduit Bender » Product heres the new price, and the build quality looks poor as well!

Thats the posh one.

The ones I use are the EL25's or 'shorties'

 

[Des 56]

Just followed the thread and looked at some pricing, so thanks

I was pleased to see The Record bender,same as mine costing £650+
Nice to know for when I need to start e-baying my gear

 

[Knobhead]

If it’s old be sure the formers are metric and not imperial.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Tony`s right....british pipe sizes are on the bore....metric on the O/D.....

 

[GLENNSPARK]

gets interesting when threading/tapping out.....

 

[GLENNSPARK]

so for instance a 3/4" copper pipe will measure approx 21.7mm on the O/D.....just as an example.....british size tube and pipe will measure different on the O/D....due to the difference in wall thickness of tube and pipe....

 

[johnboy6083]

Ive just had a brand new EL32 delivered! Looking forward to using it!

 

[supasparxs]

Hilmor Condubend 20mm-25mm Steel Conduit Bender » Product heres the new price, and the build quality looks poor as well!

The twin former bender looks good, but in reality the second former and double stop gets in the way.
if you go for the traditional shotie bender you won't go to far wrong.

 

[Darkwood]

Ive just had a brand new EL32 delivered! Looking forward to using it!

What yo pay for it?