Anybody ever use one of these? http://toolmonger.com/2008/01/21/goodbye-fish-tape-hello-magnafish/
iwire said:I may be wrong but it seems to me if the wall was clear enough to have this work that you could snake it pretty easily with a steel tape.
Imagine wood lathe, metal lath, insulation, etc. in the wall and I think that tool gets stuck.
Rawls007 said:It claims to work in walls with insulation.
brian john said:I used a fish tape or washer on a string, took my 25' tape folded it at the 36" mark and filled the void with it, dropped the string/fish tape then pull out the tape out.
how I picture it working is you fold it in half, then stick the loop in the hole in the wall and push forward, when it presses against the other side of the wall it will spread out into a loop conforming to the insides of the drywall and studs, then when a string or fishtape is dropped down you just pull the measureing tape out and it snatches it in the loop. (some of us guys cant get our hands in cut-in box holes)bjp_ne_elec said:Brian - I'm a little slow - but I don't see how you're using the 36" of your 25' tape. Can you clarify for me?
Thanks
ultramegabob said:(some of us guys cant get our hands in cut-in box holes)
You must have the shortest forearms in the world. :-?stickboy1375 said::grin: , i'm so skinny I can insert my hand up to my elbow in a 1 gang box. Snaking is NOT a problem for me... :grin:
how I picture it working is you fold it in half, then stick the loop in the hole in the wall and push forward, when it presses against the other side of the wall it will spread out into a loop conforming to the insides of the drywall and studs, then when a string or fishtape is dropped down you just pull the measureing tape out and it snatches it in the loop. (some of us guys cant get our hands in cut-in box holes)