Hi- I'm finishing my basement and I am bending conduit for all of the electrical circuits. This conduit work, along with everything else, will be examined by the village building inspector for code. 1) I'm basically running conduit in my first large room (30'x30'). To get the conduit to my receptacles, I'm putting a few strategically placed junction boxes on my exposed joists overhead and I'm "spidering" out from the junction boxes overhead out to where the receptacles will be. As I'm spidering out, I'm also having to put some extra bends in to avoid various items (ductwork, pipes, etc.), and I'm noticing that as I'm bending my conduit and joining receptacles to junction boxes that sometimes the conduit does come in "perfectly" at a 90 degree angle into the junction boxes due to my rookie bending skills. They're close, but if you look at some of my runs closely, some of the connections are a little off, but still easily fit in the holes I've knocked out of the junction boxes. Are there code requirements that demand that conduit always fit at exactly a 90 degree angle into junction boxes, receptacle boxes, etc., or are you allowed to be a little off, as long as the appropriate connections can be made and the conduit is secure? 2) I'm planning a closet with a light switch and a light. I have a junction box nearby where the power for the light will be coming from. Normally one would run conduit from the junction box to the switch, then conduit from the switch to the light in order to make the appropriate paths for the lighting. Am I allowed, though, to have a path from that junction box to the switch, and then a path from that same junction box to the light, and just wire through the junction box both ways when I wire for the switch? Or do I have to have a "direct" route from the switch to the light? 3) Can someone suggest a website or something that will explain to me what all those marks mean on the head of my 1/2" conduit bender? I would love to learn how to do "S" bends and "U" shaped bends to dip below things when running straight lines, but I haven't figured out an easy way to do them! Thanks, Steve

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