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Re: Bending 1/2 EMT conduit for ball hoop

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Originally Posted by gracie. View Post
So we had an EMT bender to do just this and have found that making the shape you want to bend it to out of wood (i.e. semicircle with correct inner diameter), screwing it down to a table, adding a block to hold it on one side, and then finding some friends to help bend, worked a lot better.
What you have made is called a hip bender because typically you would push the pipe with your hip.