Aldi Cable Access Kit

[maby]

http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/special_buys3_25443.htm

if you don't already have one, rush out and buy one! I paid over £20 for mine and thought it was good value - at £7 it is magic. By far the best way to feed cables through bilges, down ducts, behind lockers - and up masts!

 

[Ex-SolentBoy]

http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/special_buys3_25443.htm

if you don't already have one, rush out and buy one! I paid over £20 for mine and thought it was good value - at £7 it is magic. By far the best way to feed cables through bilges, down ducts, behind lockers - and up masts!

Why would you push a cable up a mast?

 

[andygc]

Why would you push a cable up a mast?

Not push, pull. If you have a mast lying down on trestles, and you want to insert cables or halyards, you need something to pull them through. When I had to do it I used a set of drain rods, but because they were a bit shorter than my mast I had to add a length of stiff wire on the end. If I'd been able to get a cable access kit for £7 I'd have used that - brilliant bit of kit.

 

[Searush]

It's just a set of tent poles, I've got loads of them already.

 

[maby]

It's just a set of tent poles, I've got loads of them already.

They are thinner and more flexible than any tent poles I've ever seen, and they screw together like drain rods - can be important since, as you pull them through, they can tend to catch. They also come with a more flexible end piece that is important to help them pass tight bends - a plain tent pole would tend to jam instead of following the curve.

 

[maby]

Not push, pull. If you have a mast lying down on trestles, and you want to insert cables or halyards, you need something to pull them through. When I had to do it I used a set of drain rods, but because they were a bit shorter than my mast I had to add a length of stiff wire on the end. If I'd been able to get a cable access kit for £7 I'd have used that - brilliant bit of kit.

Worth pointing out that, if your mast is longer then the 10m of this kit, there is nothing to stop you joining two kits together.

 

[ianj99]

http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/special_buys3_25443.htm

if you don't already have one, rush out and buy one! I paid over £20 for mine and thought it was good value - at £7 it is magic. By far the best way to feed cables through bilges, down ducts, behind lockers - and up masts!

My ferret works as well although does need feeding now and again.

Compo

 

[bigwow]

Anti aging stuff on offer as well, I see, might be usefull to some of us

 

[maby]

My ferret works as well although does need feeding now and again.

Compo

I don't thnk you should feed him very often if you want him to get up a one inch conduit!

 

[single]

Very cheap compared to ones in screw fix under 'cable access'.

 

[TrueBlue]

Some Aldi stuff is very, very good;
some is good,
some is......

You have to use a bit of nous - or perhaps "do I feel lucky".

My rule - don't pay near the going rate, 'cos it might be carp, but if it's cheap, then what the hell...

I've only been disappointed a few times!

 

[markju]

Never go to Aldi's but know the sort of thing you mean. I find them indespensible in my trade..electrician..dont know how we ever got by without them.

 

[pappaecho]

Rolson do similar.. in cheap shops. I think I paid about 3.99.

As you say excellent for pssing cables through boats of all types