Bought a $200 Klein fishtape and it paid off on one job alone

I finally got sick of wrestling with my old steel fishtape that kept kinking mid-pull. Picked up a Klein fiberglass fishtape from the supply house for about $200. On a huge office run yesterday, I pulled 6 cat6 cables through a 90 foot conduit in like 15 minutes. Has anyone else switched to fiberglass and seen a big difference?

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holly_henderson8623d ago

Did you lube the conduit first or just send it dry?

thea85716d ago

My old man used to swear by steel tapes, said they were the only way to get a feel for what was going on in the pipe... but then I watched him spend an entire afternoon trying to fish a 30 footer through a single 90 degree bend, cursing the whole time. First time I used a fiberglass fish tape I pulled a 50 foot run in ten minutes flat, then spent the rest of the day listening to him argue with a kinked steel tape that wouldn't budge... he finally switched after that.

nina_jenkins23d ago

Nah, I'd rather deal with a steel fishtape that actually lets me feel what's happening inside the conduit. Fiberglass just feels numb to me, and for 200 bucks I could buy two solid steel ones and still have change.