50 Ft. Nylon Fish Tape

I could not believe how easy and fast this thing pushed through a run of 3/4 inch pvc conduit with as many turns and twists as Space Mountain. This run is for communications cable partly underground and part above. The run was a little less than the 50 foot length of this snake, but I feel if it were a longer run and I had a longer snake like this, it would be no problem. I struggled so badly a few weeks ago on a similar run with less turns using my regular 1/8" steel tape snake, which kept getting jammed and stuck. I used this to pull a pull rope through the conduit, because I am not sure this item is strong enough to pull the cables through even with lube. This item is super cool, and even if it broke after a few uses (which I doubt it would) I'd buy another one no problem!

Are you struggling paying the Box store prices for such a simple tool? ME TOO. This nylon fish tape doesn't come with a fancy shroud of plastic to wrap it up. You will need to keep some twist ties handy for storing this, but it doesn't bother me in the least as this tool doesn't spring around like it's steel counterpart. I have a steel fish tape and it has that plastic reel, which works "OK" at best. You need this on the steel tape, or it would spring all over the place loose. The Nylon however, will stay in a nice circle as you are feeding this through. The main reason I needed this was to fish wires through a tight water tight conduit I ran under a concrete slab. The steel fish couldn't make the bend required at one of my turns. It's my fault for making the turn a little sharp to meet the sod grade, but that water tight flexible conduit doesn't take the steel tape very well regardless. I was worried I would have to dig up the are and redo the run. I bought this $12 tool and fished the 30' of wires in less than 10 minutes. It has an incredible pull strength as I was literally wrapping this up my arm to get as much leverage as possible. I thought sure I would stretch and ruin this, but instead my wires popped through the other end. I couldn't believe it. As a note for fishing wires, I run the fish tape through first and then tape the wires on the other end using duct tape in a spiral pattern. This is an incredible value for a tool that may not get used everyday, but should be in every DIY toolbox.

Mixed feelings on this. I've used the metal fish tapes on a reel and the have their purpose, and so does this. If you need to go in a straight line in a large void, this isn't any good. I needed to go down conduit with some decent turns and curves. This worked almost perfect for that. The biggest downside to it? It's not on a reel... It ends up getting tangles pretty easily. The reason it's no good in the large voids, is that it holds the curve from being spooled up. Doesn't matter inside conduit, and helps make it not tangle too bad, but in the end... meh. Wish I would have probably got something different. This is very specific use oriented and I would have preferred something a tiny bit more versatile.

I bought this to run through 3/4" pvc conduit where I thought I couldn't run a steel tape through because of the amount of turns in the conduit (almost 360 degrees total) As it turns out I couldn't get this or the steel tape through. Instead I taped this nylon tape to my steel tape with the nylon leading the steel tape by about five feet. The nylon helped guide the steel through and the steel gave rigidity to push the nylon through. Great product to have on hand.

I wanted to run a 50ft ethernet cable from my closet, with my router, through conduit in the walls of my house to my living room. The conduit goes up a wall, then a 90 degree bend, straight to my living room, another 90 degree bend, and then back down to the outlet in the wall. There were also 4 strands of insulated speaker wire already there. Regular steel fish tape couldn't even make the first bend due to all the wires in the conduit. But this nylon fish tape did the trick! I did have to get creative in attaching the ethernet cable to the fish tape to get it back because it kept coming loose when I was almost done. I ended up using the twist ties that come with many packages to secure it, and then wrapped that up in electrical tape; neither alone was enough. The thin metal wire in the twist tie was just strong enough and small enough to fit through the eye on the head of the fish tape, the electrical tape provided a smoother surface for everything to travel in the conduit. Despite all that the electrical tape had almost been pulled off by the time I got it through.

Well, I could not feed this cable through a straight piece of 1 1/4" pipe 33 feet long. The problems is that the Nylon has a permanent memory of how it was packaged, like you see it in the picture. I stretched it for 3 days in the sun, and over night the memory came came back. It gets stuck in the pipe because of it's memory bends. I ended up purchasing the 33ft of fiberglass rods that screw together. That worked fine. Terry

Don't expect one of the industry big names to soon be copying this. True, it is non-conductive and it will probably push nicely down an empty 3" or smaller conduit. However, it's 1-foot diameter coiled shape has a lot of memory retention. The very flexible 8" whip at the end is conductive so that should be kept in mind if it will be pushed into a live panel. It did not serve any purpose for me, perhaps it will for you. If this doesn't work, you'll probably need to buy or borrow one of the very expensive fiberglass fish tapes. This product is a bargain for fishing down a wall but don't use it if you're a jobber. The 200# pull rating is also an idle boast. I recommend pulling in a nylon string with it and then pulling in your wire with the string.

GREAT PRODUCT FOR THE PRICE ALTHOUGH LOCALLY AT HARBOR FREIGHT I FOUND IT FOR A FEW DOLLARS CHEAPER.IF YOU DO BUY THE PRODUCT WITH ITS PLASTIC CASE YOU ARE LOOKING TO SPEND ABOUT $100.00.BUY A DOLLY TIRE AT HARBOR FREIGHT FOR ABOUT $4.99,PULL OF THE TIRE AND PLACE THIS NYLON FISH TAPE IN IT.IT WORKS GREAT.IS THIS A GREAT IDEA OR WHAT.I JUMPED THE GUN AND BOUGHT A 16 INCH BIKE TIRE FOR $14.99.IF YOU HAVE A USED ONE AT HOME USE IT AND SAVE YOUR MONEY.