How to fish wires thru walls without a Klein or Ideal fish tape
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- There are 100 ways to fish wires thru walls. Here is one trick I use when I'm by myself. Let me know what you think.
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As an electrician you just changed my life I’ve never seen that trick and holy mother of god
Definitely! Absolute game changer
What are they teaching you rookies. I learned this in my second year app.
Omg! Totally agree! This is a freakin awesome trick!!!
I got a secret for you not many guys know, when you buy a 5 gallon bucket of ideal yellow 77 , ideal puts a pair of strippers in a bag at the bottom. If you are quick you can get them when before the other guys.
@@floridaman197 please explain more. Putting a pair of wire strippers in a bag in 5 gallon yellow 77 bucket??
Where was this video 2 weeks ago when I STRUGGLED to get this done. 16ft run between the floor joists as the Kline tool kept hitting the joist cross braces and 2x4s holding up the drywall.
Nice video, but the music was too loud, it would be better without
Or lower
If you were only a few weeks earlier....lol
I say that alllll the time.
Why wouldn't you tie at least more string or the cat 5 on the back end?
Hey Michael, thaks for the comment, It was about a 4-foot feet thru the wall wit spray foan in the garage a open sofet outside, which is the pain to try and fish when the wire goes where it wants. The Cat 5e (for the camera) was long enough and went back tot he Synology Nas NVR.
Shop vac
after seeing this video, I used this trick to fish a number of wires through things and it worked so well 🙏
That's awesome, I was working alone for like a week and needed something to get this done fast. Sat for a minute and came up with it and just put it out! Job went 5x's faster! Thanks for letting me know. Where you tuning in from?
I have both fish rods and OG metal fish tape in my van and I'm still going to add this trick to my list. Amazing!
“The loops” great idea, thank you.
Where do I apply for this company?
I live in Minnesota , moving to McAllen Texas in the near future.
The brick and Mortar is located in Los Angeles and Missoula Montana.
@@The360Electrician do you guys work local and remote?
Thanks for your long answer on my question a couple days ago bud. I hope your channel blows up as you’re a good dude!
It's better if you use twine and split it up a lot so it looks like a head of hair. You can catch it with almost anything.
Great tip. Kill that music
That's awesome. I'll definitely be using it in the future.
Dude thank you so awsome.
Have done work similar to this for decades. Can really appreciate this.
Awsome view there at your new place
hahaha love the trick .thats very old school😁
Thanks!
Can tell you've been running cable a long time like me brother.
Thanks for the support.
Yup done that I’ve dropped a chain through a wall box hole and thru the hole that I drilled up thru the plate , but I cheat and run a 1/8 inch bit directly below my wall box to guide me it’s a 12 inch 1/8 bit
I’ve seen the chain trick but that trick don’t like wall insulation
@@stephentucker5406 truth! But fiberglass rods work really well for that
u win
Nice
Thats smart
Leave a pull string behind for the next guy, etc. So I can pull extra cables. Or leave some slack cat5 up there.
Great TOP tip.
Well done with the fishing
Good tip
Heck yeah, great trick!
Beautiful insulation job
I would usually shove a bunch of string up there creating a rats nest which is easy to get something with a piece of wire.
Why do you need cameras in the middle of nowhere lol
Because you can
looks like a beautiful area, what state?@@The360Electrician
yoooooo
Beem doing this for years.
People always looked surprised when they see it
How about running cable first, then the hole you drill is sealed and air tight.
I never learned to appreciate a good fish tape and some wire lube until I apprenticed for an electrician. Makes some of the hardest runs pull like butter. Plus I had no idea wire lube existed until I started.
I’ve also done this but I used a shopvac to do it. The suction pulls the string.
Me likey
Lol thanks was like hmm maybe others can use this trick. Thank for the support.
Love it
Thanks, worked like a charm. Been doing it this way for 20 years.
As one master fisherman to another, nice job. Very fast. I always say a 15 minutes of fishing and fiddling is well worth a big drywall repair plus painting. Always makes the customer happy when they don't need to arrange time for other trades to come in and repair.
Come out to Montana, lots of fishing out here! Lol where are you tunning in from?
Imagine using cat 5 in 2023
I get that a lot, but why would you use anything else for POE cameras? Cate 5e is overkill as it is. Although future proofing would be worth the extra few bucks, but I just don't see it for this use. Thoughts?
@@The360Electrician Let me preface this by saying I did appreciate your trick for fishing cables. In response to your comment, it is my understanding that according to the TIA standard, POE applications should be using cat5e at minimum, although cat6 is preferred.
YESS, electricians should know more about low voltage and those standards as well. Great way to grow and diversify a business. Thanks for sharing.
so you got lucky and made it look like the first try and put it on RUclips....
Unless you don't belive in luck..
Seriously?? Running Cat5 In 2022 ??
It's for poe camera otherwise cat6 everywhere else.
Genuine genius.....
Genius
More of this kind of content!
You can get a fish tape for $16 at home depot. Or $10 at harbor freight
It’s not the fish tape it’s the grabbing it on the other side is the trick
Wireless would be far easier but if it is not feasible this is a good solution.
Wired is just better. If you can't use wired... Id probably use RING flood lights equipped with a camera. Only other choice is battery or solar powered cameras.
I would do that to get around the studs in corners
I’ve watched ( I’m a construction GC)100’s if not 1000’s of guys fish all sorts of places and never seen this trick. And it’s so freaking simple
ITS A GIRL!
That's what she said.
Or take the cat5 fold it in half shove a bunch in the hole and go outside with a snake or that piece of number 12 and fish it out the same way, I was a low voltage electrician for 15 years, almost never needed a helper they slow you down. And people were amazed at the size of the jobs I brought in took time by myself. All it takes is some ingenuity.
Always repurposing scrap wire. Shorts bits of 10 awg make good "staples" for landscape lighting wire-
now thats some practical engineering skills if ive ever seen em.
Thanks, always a risk posting how to do new tricks on RUclips!
Where are you tuning in from?
NOTED!!!
Dude !!
Great tip, thanks!!
Thanks for liking!
How old is this? Why no Cat 6?
Its for a outside camera Cat 6 or Cat5 or Cat5e it wouldn't make a difference for a outside camera.
Cat 5 for cameras cat 6 for everything else
Should probably be insulated, I used nice insulated 5e for running to my attic and through conduit in detached garage for cameras, works great, don't need more than 1gbps speed ever for these 👍
I hope your installing either Unifi or Hikvision
We Hikvision at the shop, always skechy with a Chinese company having all your log-ins, but we don't have any secrets...😅
I like SZinocam... All POE and simple onvif controls
Or Verkada
Did you seal around the penetrations?!
Works for residential and in walls.
Cool tip!
thanks much appriciated.
Great tip AND synth music as well!!😁
Yeah it's a nice beat. Just used it again for tomorrow's video.
Not cat v
Smart!
Wow what a Genius😂😂
Thanks Mr C, but genius is a little much 🤣🤣
Next time close the loop of #12 with a crimp and some tape where you tie the jetline.