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| Topic: | Looking for a tool for wire drops. Description inside. This thread has 34 replies. Displaying posts 16 through 30. |
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| Post 16 made on Wednesday February 15, 2006 at 00:21 |
Mr. Stanley Elite Member |
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On February 14, 2006 at 12:21, honorelsu said...
After you cut the hole where the wire is gonna
drop its always time consuming to find the exact
spot in the attic to line up with that space.
What tool or technique do you use to find your
drop point in the attic??? I also use the small stiff wire and pop it through the ceiling drywall until it can be seen in the attic, then go back and fill the hole with spackle... Sometimes drilling a small hole and jamming a glow rod up there works well also. Don't forget to have a little thing of spackle in your tool kit... (I hate sneeking in and using the customer's toothpaste, if I'm out of spackle)!!!
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"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
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| Post 17 made on Wednesday February 15, 2006 at 00:25 |
idodishez Select Member |
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On February 15, 2006 at 00:21, Mr. Stanley said...
(I hate sneeking in and using the customer's
toothpaste, if I'm out of spackle)!!! thought i was the only one whodid that
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No, I wont install your plasma with an orange extension cord hanging down the wall. www.customdigitalinc.com |
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| Post 18 made on Wednesday February 15, 2006 at 00:29 |
Mr. Stanley Elite Member |
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On February 15, 2006 at 00:25, idodishez said...
thought i was the only one whodid that Uhhhhhh.... well ya gotta do what ya gotta do sometimes! Be resourceful!!! 100 miles from the closest Hardware store... left your spackle back at the shop... :)
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"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
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| Post 19 made on Wednesday February 15, 2006 at 15:14 |
ozyus Lurking Member |
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That is too funny. I might just throuw a tube of tooth paste in the glovebox for emergencies!
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If it can break I'll break it... just to see if I can fix it. |
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| Post 20 made on Wednesday February 15, 2006 at 15:20 |
Fred Harding Super Member |
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Only advice there is to not use the blue stuff.
Unless the ceiling is blue, of course.
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| Post 21 made on Wednesday February 15, 2006 at 21:58 |
Mr. Stanley Elite Member |
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On February 15, 2006 at 15:20, Fred Harding said...
Only advice there is to not use the blue stuff.
Unless the ceiling is blue, of course. Or the red striped stuff!!
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"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
Frank Lloyd Wright
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| Post 22 made on Thursday February 16, 2006 at 00:01 |
CCD Super Member |
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On February 15, 2006 at 21:58, Mr. Stanley said...
Or the red striped stuff!! Unless the ceiling is red striped...... I think this is a great subject. I am a 2 holer but I love to hear new ideas. I have come up with a lot of these on my own but every house is different and all ideas have some merit.
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| Post 23 made on Thursday February 16, 2006 at 00:21 |
idodishez Select Member |
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On February 16, 2006 at 00:01, CCD said...
I am a 2 holer
but I love to hear new ideas. Have you been with Mr. Stanley checkng out the adult DVD selection?
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| Post 24 made on Thursday February 16, 2006 at 00:25 |
ATOH Advanced Member |
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On February 16, 2006 at 00:21, idodishez said...
Have you been with Mr. Stanley checkng out the
adult DVD selection? Probably the VCR tape selection :-)
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Why all the fighting and cussing? Can't Dave play nice? We're just here to learn and have fun. It was a harmless jab, laugh and get over it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BTW... S-E-A-R-C-H!!!
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| Post 25 made on Thursday February 16, 2006 at 01:07 |
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Here is another two holer for you.....
I was drilling up through the top plate from below.... I couldn't drill it down from the attic because even though it was an interior wall, it was very close to the exterior wall, hardly any slope on this part of the roof, I couldn't get it from the attic....
I cut a hole in the sheetrock just below the crown molding, drilled my hole, pushed the glow rod up. My partner couldn't see it.
When I pulled the glow rod back, it was NUCLEAR! I knew it had been energized by the sun.... I pushed it back up, walked outside to take a look, yep.
Two holer, top plate and roof!
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| Post 26 made on Thursday February 16, 2006 at 08:27 |
rhm9 Founding Member |
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Necessity is the mother of invention...
I had drilled a hole in a cross brace once and couldn't quite get all of the necessary wires through... didn't have a larger bit that was 4 feet long... was miles and miles away... didn't want to come back and patch... didn't have my wire lube. I went into the fridge, grabbed the margarine, went back to the attic and rubbed the snot out of my wires... came back down and successfully yanked the wire nest through. Crisco works too but you hope the nice foodlike smell doesn't attract rodents!
I've been going to Home Depot for years and buying boxes of the insulation stuff wires from Simpson. They are already cut to 16 or 24"... have nice sharp ends and you get 100 for like 4 bucks. We use them for crawl and attic finders and you can also bend the ends when the wire you fished is stuck behind insulation at the back of the stud bay... they make good little grabbers.
Stanley... I too am guilty of the alternate toothpaste use. Luckily I'm a patch wizard. I got good at it in college because the skill was good for fixing holes that the rugby players put into your walls with their heads when you threw parties... cheaper than losing your damage deposit every time.
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| Post 27 made on Thursday February 16, 2006 at 10:52 |
Tom Ciaramitaro Loyal Member |
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On February 15, 2006 at 15:14, ozyus said...
That is too funny. I might just throuw a tube
of tooth paste in the glovebox for emergencies! Yeah, start using it every day and you will make more sales!
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| Post 28 made on Thursday February 16, 2006 at 13:04 |
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| Post 29 made on Thursday February 16, 2006 at 14:20 |
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On February 16, 2006 at 13:04, AgentAlex said...
http://www.magnepull.comcheck it out...pretty impressive - A Do you own one of these? - looks good. Al
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| Post 30 made on Thursday February 16, 2006 at 14:33 |
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thats real tight. does anybody own one of these?
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