After having a hellish time trying to feed a cable through a double skin wall (my fault for not using a big enough drill bit) I thought I'd look in to buying a cable access kit similar to
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13 years ago
After having a hellish time trying to feed a cable through a double skin wall (my fault for not using a big enough drill bit) I thought I'd look in to buying a cable access kit similar to
Never used a fish tape but the cable rods are good. However, the ones you linked to are vastly overpriced. Have a look on ebay here
Rods will be better if you need to apply much force to push them through to the other end.
BTW, unless you really need the full 10 metres you might find
Thanks guys for both of the links. At that price it wouldn't hurt to get the smaller sized kit along with the larger one.
Cheers.
Just one word of caution. I use the kit you listed and like it a lot. It is better to push than pull. The ends are not that well fixed on. That's not usually a problem but when I have hit an unreachable jam and tried to pull back hard I have left some rods behind. You'll need another set after a while.
Peter Scott
No, tapes can be good for some activities, but are not easy to push or guide from a distance. Rods are far more useful IME.
Beware really cheap rods - they ends may pull off. Mid priced ones are strong, but are fibreglass - so use gloves to handle them (certainly when new). The posh expensive ones are made from other materials (or at least coated) so no risks of splinters. The other thing to note is all the clever accessories you can get for the posher ones don't tend to fit the cheap sets since they use a different screw thread at the joins (M4 on the basic ones, 1/4" UNC on the posh ones). I made some adaptors to get round this:
Thanks John. I suppose it makes sense.
I have that set & its been exceptionally useful for the sort of jobs I do.
I've the kit you linked to along with the additional ends kit. Bought it 'cause I was fed up fighting with a steel fish tape. Don't even consider a nylon fish tape they retain the curl from storage and are useless, might be alright down conduit or medium trunking but even then not over a few metres.
Information about weak end connections from others noted...
Or just fasten the cable to the drill bit that you used to drill the hole.
Works well with the larger SDS bits because the shank is a smaller diameter than the drill - so its easier to fix the cable without making it too wide to go through the hole!
My problem was I had bought an 8mm 450mm SDS bit and the cable I was pulling through was 8mm round. I thought the hole would have opened up a lot more, which it didn't!! The drill bit only popped through the other side by 20mm and it was barely accessible as it was at the top corner of a deep cupboard that had shelves in so I could only just reach it with my fingertips. Attaching the cable to the shank of the drill bit wouldn't have worked either as it was bigger than the hole.
Hence why a cable access kit would have been ideal.
ISTR a dragons den where a lady demoed a plastic widget for getting cables through cavity walls etc. IIRC they went commercial as well.
It depends on how you attach the cable to the shank. It needs to follow the shank not run alongside it.
Indeed. That is why I have had a set for years.
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