Klein Tools56005 Fish Tape, 25-Foot Steel Fish Tape, 1/4-Inch, Plastic Tip, Etched for Measuring, Updated Model Cat. No. 56335 Available

For $12 this thing works great. I do tech work for a living but I hadn’t run cables in a decade. I needed to get up an interior wall and into my attic to run speaker wire for rear surround sound. I wasn’t sure if this was going to work but figured I’d give it a try. It worked very well. First the steel cable is fairly stiff and thick with just enough flex to get it to follow the interior wall up. I was able to run some pull string and pull the speaker wire through. This is an excellent tool for running cable and for $12 bucks you really can’t beat it. That being said I didn’t lube up the tip the way others have mentioned and it did get stuck on something on the way down. I took me about 10-15 min of moving the steel tape around to finally get it unstick. That being said this tool is a winner. Definitely recommend for pulling wire and at $12 it doesn’t cost so much that it will kill your budget if it doesn’t work out.

Had to run Ethernet cable from the attic down a very small hole I drilled into the top center beam in my house. I tried to run several Ethernet cables down but they kept getting stuck on something (still not sure what it was). Got this and fed it down with a line, tied off from the bottom, retracted, and then pulled the cables down via the line. Worked like a charm, no kinks, and I am very satisfied.

I used this to run coax cables from outside the house into a small pitch cramped attic that had a large HVAC system inside. It would have been impossible to run cables without a metal fish tape.This Klein fish tape did the job well. The metal is just the right thickness. Also has measurements on the metal which is kind of useful when your running wires.

To get this out of the way, it’s a good product, feels nice and stable, easy to use. Recommended for small household jobs with thin wiring and cables.The complaint is the feeding tip. Trying to run Ethernet through walls, you’re supposed to feed it through the eyelet...well, in my case, the cable end was too large to get through, and here I was thinking it opened up and clamped shut, or had a hook, it doesn’t. I solved this problem with a little wire from an old hanger to make my own hook that held up to the job. And for 4-5$ more, I could have bought the one with the hook setup. Hindsight I suppose.For that, it took an extra few minutes to use my wire cutters to make a hook, so I’ll only take one star off, as it’s still a good product, and would recommend for small jobs.

One-leg Jack was one of the finest men I ever had the pleasure of meeting. A fine sailor, a wonderful guy who would give you the shirt off his own back. When Jack was taken by the shark, I vowed revenge. The sea was calm, and the skies blue when the shark jumped onto the deck of our ship. He grabbed Jack in his large mouth, then flipped himself overboard taking my friend with him. He didn't even have time to scream, just a look of panic on his face before he was taken to a watery grave.I vowed revenge, and every day I would take to the seas looking for that giant fishy bsstrd that took my friend.I tried all manner of fishing lines and rods, but to no avail. That giant shark just snapped them all. I needed something stronger.I saw this fish tape on Amazon, and I thought I would give it a try.I tied up some dead squirrels and some other roadkill onto the orange handle, and then cast away into the ocean. It didn't take long before I felt a strong pull, and I started to pull in the tape. It was heavy, could vengeance shortly be mine?One final yank, and then to my horror, onto the deck of the ship flopped the armless, legless body of One-leg Jack! His eyes fixed upon me, he spat the fish tape onto the deck and then started swan-diving towards me like a demented Dancing with the Stars routine. "Jack?" I asked. He landed next to my leg and began to bite. He devoured my foot and ankle in seconds, I was finally able to kick him off, but I was losing a lot of blood, and Jack was advancing once more.Just then, the shark jumped back onto the boat. Jack gasped in horror as the monster once again grabbed him and took him beneath the waves. I swear that the giant beast winked at me as he dragged my friend down into the depths once more.Anyhow, the fish tape worked very effectively. The winding mechanism is a little hard to figure out, but easy once you get the hang of it. Sturdy enough to support the torso and head of a fully grown man. Highly recommended.

I use this fish for running wire in buses which I imagine isn't its traditional use. I will say that I've used several other ones and this one has far out performed them. The distance markings come in handy and its thinner than average design has allowed me to work much faster. It is also quite flexible and hasn't lost ability to reshape like other ones that I've used. It's saved a lot of headache for me and was one of the cheapest I could find.

Very useful, easy to use tool that does exactly what it is supposed to do. Used it to run low voltage wire, coax, and Ethernet cables between floors of my house (bypassing two floors, in some cases). Many times, I attached an endoscope camera to this with twisty-ties, which was the perfect combination to see where I was inside the wall and where I was going.

I bought this item to run some cat5e and some other low voltage cabling throughout our house.Pros:-Durable, made with great materials-Study and wont get stuck because of the tape is strong-Etched measurements on tape makes it easy to know where you are in the wall-Plastic tip is good for connecting wires so they don't come off the tape while running- The plastic tip will snap off if it gets snagged pretty well. I consider this a good thing because it keeps the tip from breaking. The tip will just snap back on if this happens.Cons:It does not automatically get rid of my nightmare of running cat5e through walls but this is more of a personal issue :)