Tip For Running Cables In Tight Spaces

[wully]

Neat trick!

For sure you need something for running wires, especially if some choob of a previous owner has pulled out the ' rabbits' or 'messengers' that the builders live in the conduits ( sometimes, I know on my boat that some wires will be impossible to re-run)

I have an electricians flat wire on a reel for those awkward jobs.

[pagoda]

There is space in several of the conduits in our boat, but getting anything new in there is a challenge. I have a reel of the flat hard sparkie's wire at home, but managed to borrow a dinghy wire shroud (4mm) recently.
That was just the ticket as it wiggled past all the other stuff - and the bends quite easily. Plenty long as well.
The guy rigging his dinghy was hugely amused...

Graeme

[bilbo]

That's interesting. I have new wiring to run, and I'm learning late in life that struggling with the wrong tools is a mug's game. So now I have both a 15m. 'Am-Steel' reel of flat spring steel wire - called, I believe, a 'fish wire' - with an 'ook on the end AND a 3.3m. grp 'Cable Rod Kit', for much the same task. Neither are particularly good at negotiating small-radius bends, and so I use a more flexible 'leader' made of small-diameter coiled spring taped on.

[mm5aho]

I once used a tape measure from which the end stop had fallen off. Drilled a hole in end and attached a hook. Found it goes round bends really well, until I had one that went two directions 90 degrees apart! It only went on 2 dimensions not three!