How to fish wires thru walls without a Klein or Ideal fish tape

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  • Опубликовано: 18 ноя 2024

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  • @chancelowery8260
    @chancelowery8260 2 года назад +55

    As an electrician you just changed my life I’ve never seen that trick and holy mother of god

    • @mondoobies3000
      @mondoobies3000 2 года назад +2

      Definitely! Absolute game changer

    • @getdowndemon1097
      @getdowndemon1097 2 года назад +2

      What are they teaching you rookies. I learned this in my second year app.

    • @jacquelinesepulia5681
      @jacquelinesepulia5681 Год назад +1

      Omg! Totally agree! This is a freakin awesome trick!!!

    • @floridaman197
      @floridaman197 Год назад +2

      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.

    • @anonymous.369
      @anonymous.369 4 месяца назад

      @@floridaman197 please explain more. Putting a pair of wire strippers in a bag in 5 gallon yellow 77 bucket??

  • @jonnybo20
    @jonnybo20 Год назад +5

    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.

  • @Sparkeycarp
    @Sparkeycarp Год назад +1

    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.

    • @The360Electrician
      @The360Electrician  Год назад

      Come out to Montana, lots of fishing out here! Lol where are you tunning in from?

  • @williamlarese3010
    @williamlarese3010 Год назад +4

    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!

  • @eltronics
    @eltronics 2 года назад +3

    Have done work similar to this for decades. Can really appreciate this.

  • @pileggitech
    @pileggitech 2 года назад +4

    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!

  • @michaelhinchey
    @michaelhinchey 2 года назад +4

    Why wouldn't you tie at least more string or the cat 5 on the back end?

    • @The360Electrician
      @The360Electrician  2 года назад

      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.

  • @DH-rt3fk
    @DH-rt3fk 2 года назад +1

    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.

  • @Back10Fire
    @Back10Fire 2 года назад +19

    Nice video, but the music was too loud, it would be better without

  • @brucedixi6627
    @brucedixi6627 2 года назад +1

    Wireless would be far easier but if it is not feasible this is a good solution.

    • @digi3218
      @digi3218 2 года назад +2

      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.

  • @EricRaum
    @EricRaum 10 месяцев назад +1

    after seeing this video, I used this trick to fish a number of wires through things and it worked so well 🙏

    • @The360Electrician
      @The360Electrician  10 месяцев назад

      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?

  • @GREGGRCO
    @GREGGRCO 2 года назад +1

    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.

  • @AFel-pp1hp
    @AFel-pp1hp Год назад +2

    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.

  • @stephentucker5406
    @stephentucker5406 2 года назад

    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

  • @The_Ladder_Perspective
    @The_Ladder_Perspective 2 года назад +3

    Well done with the fishing

  • @saturnsl21999
    @saturnsl21999 Год назад +2

    Beautiful insulation job

  • @passweeni5128
    @passweeni5128 Год назад +1

    now thats some practical engineering skills if ive ever seen em.

  • @adriancisneros5790
    @adriancisneros5790 3 месяца назад

    I’ve also done this but I used a shopvac to do it. The suction pulls the string.

  • @RHovis
    @RHovis 2 года назад +2

    That's awesome. I'll definitely be using it in the future.

  • @Luisalonzo88
    @Luisalonzo88 Год назад +1

    “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.

    • @The360Electrician
      @The360Electrician  Год назад +1

      The brick and Mortar is located in Los Angeles and Missoula Montana.

    • @Luisalonzo88
      @Luisalonzo88 Год назад +1

      @@The360Electrician do you guys work local and remote?

  • @Fedgery007
    @Fedgery007 2 года назад

    Did you seal around the penetrations?!

  • @RusherResiElectric
    @RusherResiElectric Год назад +1

    Great tip, thanks!!

  • @pedrocruz7754
    @pedrocruz7754 2 месяца назад +1

    Love it

    • @The360Electrician
      @The360Electrician  2 месяца назад

      Thanks, worked like a charm. Been doing it this way for 20 years.

  • @victorpoliashov2467
    @victorpoliashov2467 2 года назад +3

    Heck yeah, great trick!

  • @joeypizzingrilli7366
    @joeypizzingrilli7366 2 года назад +3

    Good tip

  • @White000Crow
    @White000Crow 2 года назад +1

    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.

  • @swervomatic
    @swervomatic Год назад +3

    Awsome view there at your new place

  • @tvbrauer1566
    @tvbrauer1566 2 месяца назад

    More of this kind of content!

  • @earlestes8649
    @earlestes8649 2 года назад +1

    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

    • @stephentucker5406
      @stephentucker5406 2 года назад

      I’ve seen the chain trick but that trick don’t like wall insulation

    • @earlestes8649
      @earlestes8649 2 года назад +1

      @@stephentucker5406 truth! But fiberglass rods work really well for that

  • @edisona.543
    @edisona.543 Год назад +1

    NOTED!!!

  • @jimdegeorge5517
    @jimdegeorge5517 2 года назад +1

    Genuine genius.....

  • @ericwotton2046
    @ericwotton2046 2 года назад +9

    If you were only a few weeks earlier....lol

  • @luiscolon4961
    @luiscolon4961 Год назад +1

    hahaha love the trick .thats very old school😁

  • @danserrano2251
    @danserrano2251 4 месяца назад

    Beem doing this for years.
    People always looked surprised when they see it

  • @cameronavpro1869
    @cameronavpro1869 2 года назад

    How about running cable first, then the hole you drill is sealed and air tight.

  • @rodmarr1844
    @rodmarr1844 2 года назад

    Great tip AND synth music as well!!😁

    • @The360Electrician
      @The360Electrician  2 года назад +1

      Yeah it's a nice beat. Just used it again for tomorrow's video.

  • @Pbell
    @Pbell 2 года назад

    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.

  • @stevenbrown6720
    @stevenbrown6720 2 года назад +2

    Thats smart

  • @skyemac8
    @skyemac8 2 года назад

    Works for residential and in walls.

  • @wgm-en2gx
    @wgm-en2gx 2 года назад +1

    Cool tip!

  • @regibson23
    @regibson23 2 года назад +1

    You can get a fish tape for $16 at home depot. Or $10 at harbor freight

    • @stephentucker5406
      @stephentucker5406 2 года назад +3

      It’s not the fish tape it’s the grabbing it on the other side is the trick

  • @TheLostAdventuress
    @TheLostAdventuress 2 года назад +4

    Dude thank you so awsome.

  • @jstone1211
    @jstone1211 2 года назад +2

    Genius

  • @theoneandonlybobby7933
    @theoneandonlybobby7933 2 года назад +1

    I would do that to get around the studs in corners

  • @pedrocruz7754
    @pedrocruz7754 2 месяца назад +1

    Nice

  • @hada7552
    @hada7552 2 года назад +1

    I hope your installing either Unifi or Hikvision

    • @The360Electrician
      @The360Electrician  2 года назад

      We Hikvision at the shop, always skechy with a Chinese company having all your log-ins, but we don't have any secrets...😅

    • @H1pok0ndr1ak
      @H1pok0ndr1ak 2 года назад +1

      I like SZinocam... All POE and simple onvif controls

    • @gfynando
      @gfynando 2 года назад

      Or Verkada

  • @keaner21
    @keaner21 3 месяца назад +1

    Great tip. Kill that music

  • @paulmahon1613
    @paulmahon1613 2 года назад +1

    How old is this? Why no Cat 6?

    • @deputyuwu
      @deputyuwu 2 года назад +1

      Its for a outside camera Cat 6 or Cat5 or Cat5e it wouldn't make a difference for a outside camera.

    • @The360Electrician
      @The360Electrician  2 года назад +1

      Cat 5 for cameras cat 6 for everything else

    • @whattheschmidt
      @whattheschmidt 2 года назад

      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 👍

  • @lquinn7212
    @lquinn7212 2 года назад

    That's what she said.

  • @sparkydirtbag757
    @sparkydirtbag757 2 года назад

    Always repurposing scrap wire. Shorts bits of 10 awg make good "staples" for landscape lighting wire-

  • @bmo14lax
    @bmo14lax 2 года назад +5

    Can tell you've been running cable a long time like me brother.

  • @anthonyrespass3090
    @anthonyrespass3090 2 года назад +1

    u win

  • @dompierre9036
    @dompierre9036 2 года назад

    Smart!

  • @mark33545
    @mark33545 8 месяцев назад +1

    Why do you need cameras in the middle of nowhere lol

    • @The360Electrician
      @The360Electrician  8 месяцев назад

      Because you can

    • @mark33545
      @mark33545 8 месяцев назад

      looks like a beautiful area, what state?@@The360Electrician

  • @luciankavanaugh3074
    @luciankavanaugh3074 Год назад +1

    Imagine using cat 5 in 2023

    • @The360Electrician
      @The360Electrician  Год назад

      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?

    • @luciankavanaugh3074
      @luciankavanaugh3074 Год назад +1

      ​@@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.

    • @The360Electrician
      @The360Electrician  Год назад

      YESS, electricians should know more about low voltage and those standards as well. Great way to grow and diversify a business. Thanks for sharing.

  • @chrisjstewart72
    @chrisjstewart72 2 года назад +1

    Wow what a Genius😂😂

  • @GREGGRCO
    @GREGGRCO 2 года назад +1

    Dude !!

  • @an-dy9043
    @an-dy9043 2 года назад +2

    Shop vac

  • @dtm7909
    @dtm7909 2 года назад

    Seriously?? Running Cat5 In 2022 ??

  • @mrindependent1
    @mrindependent1 Год назад +1

    Me likey

    • @The360Electrician
      @The360Electrician  Год назад

      Lol thanks was like hmm maybe others can use this trick. Thank for the support.

  • @manresaelectric
    @manresaelectric 2 года назад

    ITS A GIRL!

  • @mrthiefy
    @mrthiefy 2 года назад

    so you got lucky and made it look like the first try and put it on RUclips....

  • @zS39SBT4fe5Zp8Q
    @zS39SBT4fe5Zp8Q 4 месяца назад +1

    yoooooo

  • @theoneandonlybobby7933
    @theoneandonlybobby7933 2 года назад

    Not cat v

  • @getdowndemon1097
    @getdowndemon1097 2 года назад

    Next time close the loop of #12 with a crimp and some tape where you tie the jetline.