The Best Way To Bend Conduit-Rack-A-Tiers Hoppy Bender

Although residential electrical wiring rarely requires extensive conduit work and piping, commercial electricians are often dealing with much larger installation projects than the average home. Conduit piping has to be installed in a centralized location, such as a boiler room for example, and fed throughout an entire complex.

As if running all that wire wasn’t enough work for such a project, there’s the potential time-killing task of bending and installing all the conduit piping for the electrical connections. Now, you have a few choices when it comes to bending. You can use inferior tools and have to reset your bends every time, or you can use the Hoppy Bender and drastically reduce your bend and install time. Don’t believe us? Just check out the work of electrician Brett Utterback!

A True Work of Art

One look at Utterback’s photos of a commercial install job, and two things come to mind. For the art lover in all of us (or at least the person who appreciates cleanliness and organization), Utterback’s conduit piping is a master work of art. What could have been a jumbled mess of wires and conduit was instead weaved into an intricate ballet of piping that runs efficiently where it needs to go, without devolving into a tangled web that no one would be able to solve in the future should repairs or rewiring occur.

The other is the mind-blowing realization that Utterback had a lot of work on his hands bending all of that pipe. How did he manage to not only bend that much pipe in a short amount of time, but make such precise and repeated bends? If you’ve used Rack-a-Tiers products before, you probably can guess that the answer is he used the Hoppy Bender from Rack-a-Tiers!

The Hoppy Bender

The Hoppy Bender is a conduit pipe bending tool that truly revolutionizes the manner in which, and efficiency with which, electricians can bend pipe during installation jobs. One look at the Hoppy Bender, and you might not be overwhelmed by the complexity of design. After all, it is a pretty simple looking tool.

However, this is a case where looks are deceiving. The Hoppy Bender is remarkably simplistic, but that’s only because it can make your most complex install job a snap. The Hoppy Bender has a “stop” attached on the bender head that creates an exact and repeatable bend every time you use it.

There are also simplified “multipliers” engraved into the bender where you can place the “stop” prior to making any offsets and four-point saddles. There are even special 22.5 and 45-degree angle marks engraved on the bender for conduit bend marking, and standard degree marks for stop placement. These are used together for bending three-point saddles without having to reverse the conduit in the shoe.

Hoppy Bender is an ideal choice for electricians that don’t have years of experience bending conduit piping, because it comes with a reference chart on the handle so you can easily locate bend marks and make any bends you need. From 3- and 4-point saddles to offsets and 90-degree bends, the Hoppy Bender allows you to make the same bend, over and over, without resetting or starting from scratch.

Utterback’s Use of the Hoppy Bender

Go back to the photos from Utterback’s conduit installation, and you’ll see just how valuable the Hoppy Bender can be for pipe bending. If you look closely, you’ll notice an array of 90-degree bends and 45-degree bends, all in the same pipe, and repeated in clusters of four to six pipes. A job like this, completed without a Hoppy Bender, would be time-consuming to put it simply. Bluntly put, this job might be soul-sucking without a reliable bending tool.

What makes the Hoppy Bender ideal for Utterback’s project, or any other, is the ability to repeatedly and efficiently bend pipes to the same degree, and do it faster than any other tool. Send the bends you need, and you can accurately recreate that bend in other pipes in a flash. It’s literally possible to make 1,000 bends faster with the Hoppy Bender than any other product.

Utterback’s photos prove it, and you can speed up your own projects. All you need is the Hoppy Bender in your toolkit!