Just came back from a commercial job in Phoenix and I'm scratching my head at the whole conduit bending debate

Everyone online says you gotta use a hand bender for 1/2 EMT on a service upgrade, but I saw a crew out there using factory elbows and couplings all the way through a 4 floor parking garage. They finished 3 hours faster than my two man crew could have bent it by hand. I get that bending looks cleaner, but if the inspector passed 40 fittings without a blink, why are we splitting hairs? Has anyone else seen industrial crews skip the hand bender entirely on big builds?

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mason.mary2d ago

Is it really that big of a deal if the inspector passed it and the job got done faster? In my experience, most inspectors just care if it's safe and up to code, not how you got the bend.