Stereo Guys: I need your help!

[martyo]

Someone described a trick little tool to me for passing wire through the fire wall grommets.

What do you guys know about this.

[Lowell]

Take a stainlees steel antenna mast. Sharpen forward end on a bench grinder to a sharp point. Tape wire onto mast well. Lube with wire pulling lube. Push sharpened end into an appropriatly large grommet. Push through grommet. Job done. Easy.

[MM03MOK]

You can use an awl if you're very careful and have view of the other side - don't wanna poke an eye out. There is a tool to do this too....don't know its name.

[martyo]

There is a tool to do this too....don't know its name.

Therein lies my dilemma.

[Bradley G]

Fish tape?
Therein lies my dilemma.

[CRUZTAKER]

I made a new hole...guess that doesn't help much.


I always made my own tool for passing thru existing grommets.

A coat hanger.;)

[torinodan]

There's a tool I use at work that looks like a small shoe horn with a small round tip thats curved so a wire can be put into it, passed through a grommet or clap, then removed. Last I knew these can be found at radio shack as a wire insertion tool I believe, and they come in different sizes for different size wires. Here's an automotive one: http://store.autotoolexpress.com/thx436.html and another one: http://www.tooldiscounter.com/ItemDisplay.cfm?lookup=THE436&source=froogle&kw=THE436 about the same as the antenna idea.

[martyo]

There's a tool I use at work that looks like a small shoe horn with a small round tip thats curved so a wire can be put into it, passed through a grommet or clap, then removed. Last I knew these can be found at radio shack as a wire insertion tool I believe, and they come in different sizes for different size wires. Here's an automotive one: http://store.autotoolexpress.com/thx436.html and another one: http://www.tooldiscounter.com/ItemDisplay.cfm?lookup=THE436&source=froogle&kw=THE436 about the same as the antenna idea.



Dan's the Man!

That is exactly what I was looking for and couldn't get the name right to do a proper search.

Thanks Dan!!!

By the way, do you have any idea what gauge these things go up to?

[torinodan]

Dan's the Man!

That is exactly what I was looking for and couldn't get the name right to do a proper search.

Thanks Dan!!!

By the way, do you have any idea what gauge these things go up to?Let me look in my tool box.......

[martyo]

Let me look in my tool box....

Too late. I just ordered one anyway! :D

I got out cheap. I only spent a little over a hundred bucks at there site! Good thing I was too busy to do some real shopping! :D

[bigslim]

Take a stainlees steel antenna mast. Sharpen forward end on a bench grinder to a sharp point. Tape wire onto mast well. Lube with wire pulling lube. Push sharpened end into an appropriatly large grommet. Push through grommet. Job done. Easy.
Listen to this man. He installs audio equipment for a living.

[torinodan]

Nope, not in my tool box but the MAC Tools wire insertion tool kit part number is 476 for 20 bucks and comes with 2 insertion tools. One tool should be for 10-14 gauge and the other fits everything else...like 8 and larger. Hope this helps ya.

The antenna works but these last longer for me.

[martyo]

MAC Tools wire insertion tool kit part number is 476 for 20 bucks and comes with 2 insertion tools.

Got a link?

[torinodan]

here ya go, pg 8 http://www.mactools.com/content/HD_Upload/flyer_us.pdf

[martyo]

here ya go, pg 8 http://www.mactools.com/content/HD_Upload/flyer_us.pdf

Thanks again Dan!

[Krytin]

...and if that don't work, give me a call and you can borrow my fish tape!

[Agent M79]

I have no idea if there are any tools HERE (http://www.lsdinc.com/)that would be of any help but I have seen these guys at show many times. Neat stuff.

[Ozz]

I always use what my father always refered to as a 'hemostat'... it's one of those pliers that have the super tiny jaws and the locking teeth on the handle. The handles have round loops on them (like scissors). Push the jaws through the existing grommet, open it, put the wire in the jaws, clamp it shut and pull like hell. I've never had a problem using this method.

[Rider90]

I just cut and cramp up my hands, but the job gets done.