Re: Your Favorite Install Tool?

[bdolph <bdolph@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you are looking for something to fish and run through framing then
look at a flexible bit such as a Diversa-Bit.

BobbyD

Sylvain Robitaille wrote:

>alarman wrote:
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>>They're made out of 5/16" tubing cut to 30-36" lengths. Slip a glow
>>rod into the tubing, ...
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>Hrmmm...  I suspect I'm not picturing this correctly, but it's very
>likely only because I've never seen it done before.
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>bdolph suggested the "creep-zit" push/pull rods, whose value I can
>imagine in what are probably mostly ideal conditions, but given that
>wiring holes in any of the framing in my house don't appear to have been
>drilled in any straight lines, I'm not sure how well they would work
>(for me) in practice.
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>>... and push it up through the 3/8" hole in the window frame.  When
>>the works hits the roof, remove the glow rod.
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>These are definitely contributing to my confusion.  I _know_ that the
>problem is that I'm not picturing this correctly, but I hope you can
>help clear it up for me.  There's a 3/8" hole in the window frame?
>(perhaps you put it there, and I simply haven't understood that?)
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>You're pushing this tubing/glow-rod assembly (are the rods similar to
>the "creep-zit" rods pointed to by bdolph?) up an outside wall from the
>top (?) of a window frame into the attic?  Are you perhaps dealing with
>buildings that don't have any insulation in the outside walls?  (I just
>can't imagine this in my outside walls, without imagining damaging the
>insulation, but again, I wouldn't be surprised to be told that I'm
>suffering simply from lack of experience ...)
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>>Now you can twist the tube back and forth while you push up slightly.
>>Usually the tube follows the roof line and slides right past the
>>insulation in the attic.
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>But there's a header (at least I believe that's what framing folks would
>call it) where the wall and ceiling/attic/roof framing meet, no?
>(perhaps you drilled another hole in this header, when I wasn't looking?
>;-)
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>>Now you have a chase through which you can feed your wire.
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>The value of this I can understand and appreciate.  I've done enough
>wiring (professionally for audio and lighting system installations, and
>personally for telephone and computer networking, as well as AC wiring)
>to appreciate its value, but I clearly haven't done enough to understand
>how you're achieving it.  Is the tubing the same as flexible electrical
>conduit?
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>>I usually pull 8 - 10 doors/windows at a time-minimizes the time I
>>spend in the attic.
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>Another aspect I can fully understand and appreciate.  :-)
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