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Tool for pulling wires and cables

Hello !

I want to talk about a simple device that will be useful to those who have to stretch wires and cables.

It is often necessary to pull a wire or cable from a hole in the ceiling under a lamp or a security or fire alarm sensor, a video camera. And also from a junction box when installing an electrician, under a switch or wall outlet.
Computer, television, telephone and other wires and cables.

Very often it is difficult, inconvenient to do this with tweezers or pliers, it takes a lot of time and effort.

On sale I did not come across suitable fixtures and I decided to do mine.

I took a steel wire with a diameter of 2 and 4 mm. The wire was taken not soft, but elastic.
Tool for pulling wires and cables


He also took part of the belt from the bag that had become unusable.


I used pliers, pliers, a hammer and quite powerful nippers from the tool.

First, with the help of pliers and a hammer, I straightened the wire.

Then he cut it with wire cutters into pieces of various lengths. In total, I decided to make six for different cases. Five of 2mm wire and one of 4mm.

Then with the help of pliers and round-nose pliers he gave the ends of the wires the shape of hooks and rings.

I made the shape of the hooks and their sizes different, based on my experience in drawing wires and cables.


Hooks are designed to grip and pull the uncut wire, and rings are used to grip and pull the end of the wire. In this case, the ring is put on the wire, the device rotates around its axis, the wire is captured at the same time and then stretched.

The advantage of the device is that the insulation of the wires during these manipulations is not damaged, even in cases when pulling requires a lot of effort.

After that I hardened some hooks at the ends. He heated in the upper part of the flame of the gas stove to red and sharply lowered it into a container of water. Then held until completely cooled. The length is not tempered. Perhaps hardening was not needed, but it did not get worse.

Long-term practice of using this device has shown its effectiveness.
It is always in my suitcase with basic tools. So that all six hooks are in the kit and see which one is better to use, they are pulled together by a strap from an unusable bag.

I plan to make some additional hooks of a different shape and size so that you can pull out the corrugated hoses and hoses.

Hope the idea of ​​this homemade will be useful to someone.

Sincerely, author.

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9 comments
Hooligan
Somehow I bounced 220v from a steel cable while pulling cables, after that I swore to use metal broaches. As a last resort - only in isolation, like a hook from a VVG core of 4-6 sq. And so - only narrow or its analogue, cut out of optical cables.
Anton
Author, method as old as the world. But thanks.
Buy an endoscope camera for your phone, with a set of hooks. Which broach can be caught.
I didn’t understand why there were different-sized hooks, I have a couple to catch an ultrasonic scan.

Here is a type of such
$ 278.68
Khatul Madan
hanging mounted to profiles
I agree, so I wrote:
met somewhere, really I have not tried it myself
smile
A ball is released and drilled along the axis, the bracket is made of wire, a long lace is attached to the bracket, it is launched into the hole in the suspended ceiling, from below we lead the magnet to the next hole.
Tip is good for traction the ceiling, the pendant is attached to profiles that the ball is unlikely to jump.
R555
Let's develop a theme ... dofig cases
By the way, I remembered somewhere I met, though I have not tried it myself, maybe it will come in handy. A ball is released and drilled along the axis, the bracket is made of wire, a long lace is attached to the bracket, it is launched into the hole in the suspended ceiling, from below we lead the magnet to the next hole. scratch
R555
Let's develop a theme ... dofig cases
You can have a tray on the neck, like a peddler, fastening on a stepladder, inexpensive VR glasses, there are many options. scratch
all at the same time should be done by one person, without helpers
You are mistaken in this, the landlord stood next to him on a stool and held his laptop so that it would be most convenient for me to watch.
also in mirror image
You are also mistaken in this, programmatically mirroring an image is not so difficult. After that single case, I acquired an introscope with a bunch of all kinds of attachments, though I haven’t had to use it yet. smile
Author
Korolev, I want to ask, you wrote that you used a miniature VEB camera when you examined, for example, a suspended ceiling like Armstrong. And where did you connect it, what did you look at the image on, and how did you manage to sherudit hooks from VVG at the same time, moreover, in mirror image? Let's develop the topic of how they are there, of introscopes, laparoscopes, and, most importantly, one person should do everything at the same time, without helpers. I have some groundwork. And dofiga cases. Once it was necessary telephone cable CCI 10 greenhouse to stretch air over other cables. I invited an assistant, he looked and said, oh, here we need to collect 4 more people and work for 2 days.And I figured out how much they will have to pay, the customer will not give that much money. I got angry, did it alone in 4 hours, and took all the money (good ones) to myself. And the customer noticed that I alone managed and the clientele fitted me.
It is often necessary to pull a wire or cable out of a hole in the ceiling
I had to deal with other people's “clamps”, I used a miniature WEB-camera and hooks from VVG veins, well, what was on hand, I didn’t remove the isolation, by the way! yes

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