Depth Finder with High Strength 1/8-Inch Wide Steel Fish Tape, 50-Foot Length

A fish tape is a guidance tool used by electricians to route new wiring through electrical conduits and walls to reach another section of a house. This electrical tool is a coiled length of tape stored in a reel. While the most common material used for fish tape is steel, other common options include fiberglass and nylon. Each of these materials is strong enough to stay rigid when pushed through an empty wall cavity. Once on the other side, a fish tape can then reel in a length of cable.

The steel fish tape makes it easy to thread cables and wires through drywall, conduit or insulation. Simply guide the fish tape through the narrow opening, attach wires to the pulling loop and guide the wires to the new location smoothly and efficiently. The reel winds up and stores excess fish tape as the wire is pulled, and a built-in thumb lock holds the wire in place.

Guide the fish tape through narrow openings, then attach wires to the pulling loop and guide them smoothly to new location
Reel winds up and stores excess tape as wire is pulled
Built-in thumb lock holds wire in place
Fish tape Specifications:

* High strength steel fish tape are stiff for long runs and are great for heavy duty wire puller

* Laser marked tape every feet, to see the amount of tape used
* high impact-resistant case
* improved structure for smooth and easy operation
* various materials of tape are available, carbon steel or stainless steel or fiberglass or nylon

How to Pull Wires With a Fish Tape

With one person standing at the box to feed the wire, pull evenly on all of the wires to be fed. Try to keep the wires untangled as you feed them. Feed the wires by lubricating the wires with one hand and feeding them into the pipe, while pulling the wires off of the wire reels with the other.

As for the person actually doing the pulling on the other end, pull the wires in two to three foot intervals. Count to four and then pull again. Check with the person feeding to see if this is a good pace for them. Pulling too fast can nick the wires and catch your helper's fingers into the box. Leave enough time between pulls so that the person feeding has time to lubricate the wire and pull enough off of the wire reels to feed into the conduit. A simple signal to alert each other that you are ready for the next pull is to tap on the pipe with something like a tool.