ToughButterCup Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 In ceiling LED downlighters.... Followed all the advice. Took care to note the places where my downlighters should be. Marked the ceiling accordingly Drilled the holes. 70mm. Filled my face, ears and armpits with plaster dust. Fetch face mask. Spat a lot. Pull the wire through in most holes. Except in two places. Thought this would happen, got a strategy: a Bosch (natch) inspection camera - you know the sort where, in private, you look to see what's in your ears or your ...... Set LED illumination at 100% Pop it in the hole... There the little bugger sits leering at me. Some of you will know I have had both little fingers amputated (mis-spent youth): easy I thought : get yer hand in fish it out. Four fingered self builders are at an advantage here: wa hay! Got my hand in could NOT reach it and spent 10 full minutes trying to get my hand out. Felt like half an hour . Christ it hurt. Still hurts Got a right cob on now Wire 'fish tool' Nada, nichts, rien, nothing Dropped the fishing wire in ceiling space. Fook. Welding rod, bent to shape - poked in and - you guessed it - dropped. Fookety Fook. Artery forceps - not long enough I know that I cannot be the first guy who has had this problem. Short of taking the floor above up....... Help, please! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Other half with smaller hands.Small relative etc. Drill another hole and fill etc, etc. Keep going with the hooky things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Just now, Onoff said: Keep going with the hooky things. or a longer hooky thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Proper cable rods are good...and have a hooky thing... For example: https://www.toolstation.com/draper-toolbox-cable-access-kit/p50619? Just remember when using not to untwist the rod from the hook! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToughButterCup Posted September 22, 2020 Author Share Posted September 22, 2020 Ah, that's what 3 year olds are for...... I know exactly where the damn thing is because the glassfiber cable on the camera is fairly rigid: so I know direction and distance from the hole. Its just that my hand is permanently bent (post-operative contraction of the scar tissue) and I can feel the wire with the back of my fingers (when the hand's in there) and cant straighten my fingers enough to grab it. Just had a brain-wave: tape a hook shaped welding rod to the inspection camera probe ..... Ha! Thanks lads. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Punter Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Also, you may like a DADE https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/FXDADE.html 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToughButterCup Posted September 22, 2020 Author Share Posted September 22, 2020 Bingo! Time for Tea and Medals . In each case the wire was too far from the hole for my curled-over hands to reach, and so near to the hole that it was easy to overlook using the camera. Anyway, panic over. Lesson learned. Keep what's left of yer hands to yourself DADE ordered. Thanks @Mr Punter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gone West Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 I have something similar to this sort of thing for when I run into that sort of problem. https://www.amazon.co.uk/LHKJ-Flexible-Magnetic-Handheld-Reaching/dp/B07QVKD2X4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wozza Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Mr Punter said: Also, you may like a DADE https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/FXDADE.html I made my own from a plastic container that previously held mini blueberry muffins It worked very well. Edited September 22, 2020 by wozza Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 https://www.boschtools.com/us/en/boschtools-ocs/drill-dust-attachments-35850-c/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell griffiths Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 No matter how shit my day has been @ToughButterCup little escapades always bring a grin to my face. Keep up the good work ol fella. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferdinand Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 1 hour ago, wozza said: I made my own from a plastic container that previously held mini blueberry muffins It worked very well. Real men make their own blueberry muffins at home. From their own blueberry bushes. Pshaw! I will have blueberry muffins in 2 years. As they say in Dublin: Omnia bona expectantibus eveniunt. * F ( * Doesn’t work with sex or absinthe.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToughButterCup Posted September 22, 2020 Author Share Posted September 22, 2020 1 hour ago, PeterStarck said: I have something similar to this sort of thing for when I run into that sort of problem. https://www.amazon.co.uk/LHKJ-Flexible-Magnetic-Handheld-Reaching/dp/B07QVKD2X4 Wanna pain-free day? Ask @PeterStarck. Ta Peter! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToughButterCup Posted September 22, 2020 Author Share Posted September 22, 2020 57 minutes ago, Onoff said: https://www.boschtools.com/us/en/boschtools-ocs/drill-dust-attachments-35850-c/ Bloody Bosch stuff, always overpriced. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 Had same problem and my engineering student son went and cut a slot into a piece of render bead and fished the cable out, not sure how much engineering sons costs compared to Bosch though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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