| On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 13:51:23 +0000, Timothy Murphy | wrote: |=20 | >I'm trying to move a pull-down switch | >from one side of a bathroom door to the other. | >(At some time the door was hung the other way, I guess.) | >
| >The ceiling is wooden, | >and I have made a 2cm hole at the new site, | >and verified (with a bent metal hanger) | >that there is no obstruction between the two holes, | >which are about 1 metre apart. | >
| >But how can I get a wire from one hole to the other? | >To explain what I mean, | >if I tied string to a mouse's tail, | >and pushed it up through one hole, | >and put cheese up the other hole, | >the string might go from one hole to the other. | >Unfortunately we have no mice in residence. | >
| >Any suggestions gratefully received. |=20 |=20 | A piece of flexible wire( electrical cable .??...use one conductor | stripped out) ) poked up through one hole but bending it to keep it | close to the ceiling and a hooked piece of wire poked up through the | other hole to hook the flecxible piece and pull it down through the | 2nd hole ..or else a piece of string with a small piece of metal on | the end and VERY strong magnet below the ceiling to entice it across | above the ceiling ..depends how thick the ceiling is ..doubt that | would work tho'
When you have got it in leave a piece of string twice the length of the route, there to draw in other wires. You will definitely want to that route again.
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