In this video I show you my technique on threading Rigid conduit. It is a simple process as long as you go slow and use plenty of oil.
You can always send me an email at sparkyinstructor@gmail.com
In this video I show you my technique on threading Rigid conduit. It is a simple process as long as you go slow and use plenty of oil.
You can always send me an email at sparkyinstructor@gmail.com
Apprentice in training here, awesome walkthrough and very well explained, you now have a new subscriber!
Thank you, sir! Awesome video. I have been working as a commercial electrician for a couple years and am trying to get into the industrial side of things; rigid is always mentioned in the job descriptions, so I gotta learn fast! Appreciate it
Appreciate the video. Its been years since I did any pipe threading and this made it all come back to me.
Your videos are concise and applicable. Thanks Craig.
Great video very informative
So glad my dad has a rigid 300 I can borrow, but the trips up the basement stairs are a PITA alone. Ive been meaning to weigh that machine, threaders n all
I have a couple of weeks under my belt of bending and threading rigid steel conduit. It definitely is a feather on your cap. I am one of two apprentices that know how to do it on a site with 30 apprentices. Even the jmen ask me for help. Makes me want to keep learning the unique skillsets.
Nice
Good video brother keep pushn
Nice job on the video.
Thank you, I do often wonder if you guys do like my videos and if they are informative!! Thank you for your feedback!! CM
@@craigmichaud-electricalins4602 I would love to see more videos on commercial based skills, IE working with large diameter heavy wall, setting pull boxes, high amperage service equipment, best practices for commercial installs, conduit suspension techniques and so on.
Transformer sizing and install also. Thanks
Hey teacher. Keep Goin in industrial and commercial videos KZhead doesn't have many industrial electricity videos. Good job man
Do you reuse that cutting oil that drips out?
I’m curious about pipe threading, I’m a plumbers son and now a 41yr old heavy duty diesel mechanic. My father was a plumber for 48yrs, retired in 2010, sadly he passed away in Nov of 2021 of a heart attack after my mother who also died in Jan of 2021 of covid pneumonia. I’m an only child so I now own their property, vehicles, as well as all my pops old plumbing tools from the family business A-1 Plumbing & Heating in New Orleans, Louisiana. Granted, there’s some rust on the tools from sitting in the garage but, I’m sure their worth cleaning up to do DIY stuff like plumbing or electrical work at the old house. My pop had 2 manual pipe threader ratchets with the stands & multiple dies, also he had one electric pipe threader with a newer stand & slightly newer dies. I think the dies were interchangeable though I might be mistaken and all of the tools were Rigid, Mikita, Craftsman and Milwaukee. The threading tools being primarily Rigid I think! I was wondering if you had any recommendations on restoring the threading tools, stands and the manual & electric ratchets. These tools were used from the 80’s to about 2002 I know for a fact as I was made to help my pop as a gofer when I was a kid. As of 2002 they worked at least until my pop went into the union and worked as a master plumber for Harrah’s Casino in New Orleans where he only did some work for friends and family outside of his day job.
So sorry to hear about your parents!! Looks like you inherited an amazing tool collection! If they were made in the 70 an 80s I am sure they are built to last!! As for restoring them I would have no clue!! Maybe someone will read this and have more knowledge about restoring tools. Good luck to you sir!! CM
Nice video on how to thread a rigid steel pipe by hand that's it though
I went to Home Depot today and they sell 10 foot conduit but don’t cut or thread it. I don’t want to buy the machine because I only need to run the meter wire inside about 3 feet to the main panel. Right on the other side of the wall. Any suggestions?
Can I use my gas pipe threading die for threading electrical conduit? Or do you have a special thread cutting die? I have the same rigid set up you have, but all for threading gas pipe. Thank you!
Conduit threads are supposed to be the same as pipe threads and that is National Tapered Pipie (NPT) for a tight seal. Use good plumbing practice with ridgid in wet location. Rigid conduit that gets water into it can become an unworkable corroded mess quickly. The wires in it are almost impossible to pull back out.
I would totally get one of these to run conduit in my garage if the tools weren't so damn expensive
Run EMT conduit if it is in your garage and not outside. No threads or anything like that to worry about
@@Glocko44 Yeah but thats boring. Go big or go home. Might as well just use mc.
@@Doomzdayxx When we moved our machine shop to a new location everything was run via EMT in the new building space overhead. It is an industrial environment with many machines and a good portion of them each have their own breakers with capacities equivalent to whole house 200 amp mains. No one was going to run thousands of combined linear feet of RMC where EMT is acceptable. With that being said, there is nothing "big" about wiring a garage with RMC over EMT especially if it is residential, all that it will show is that you know how to use a pipe threader honestly. If certain industrial environments can use EMT, what makes your garage different that makes using it inferior?
@@Glocko44 My garage in a 400 sq ft residential garage, not an industrial environment. You answered your own question but I figured I'd reiterate it. and like you said, "all it would show is that you know how to use a pip threader", well a similar argument could be made for EMT, such as "all it would show is that you can bend pipe". Frankly, any conduit would be overkill in my particular situation, so if I'm going to do overkill, I'm going to REALLY do overkill brother. You dig?
Could you put a bucket under that oil drip and reuse it?
There is a catch can under there that acts as an oil reservoir for his manual pump
i weigh 160 pounds and used a pony on my first job, i got picked up off the ground and smashed my balls. Everybody in Local 68 thought that was hilarious
I don’t like to wear gloves also because I like to feel what I’m doing
Working with gloves doesn't sit right with me lol
cutting oil MSDS should be be posted in the hazardous materials OSHA. Carcinogenic. TUFF GUYS ALWAYS WEAR THEIR PPE.
You don’t make money like that!
What do you mean ?
@hitmanhatim they have autism don't mind them