XP1000-6 Tapered XP Magnet w/Leader & Eye-Let

I bought a full Magnepull / Magnespot kit in 2010 to use pulling Ethernet cable for post-construction residential LANs. As long as you're working within a wood-framed structure it's a must-have tool for me. (I've never tried to use it in a steel-frame building so I have no idea how well it works there). After my unit first arrived I used it to add a second LAN drop in a bedroom wall in which I had previously fished the first drop without the Magnepull . The wall contained 4 different pipes running horizontally a few feet below the top plate. I had spent a good 15 minutes for that first drop in a swelteringly hot attic (August in Florida) using glow rods, fish chains, etc. trying to get the new Cat-5e to negotiate through the tight crossing space and drop through down to standard outlet device plate height. We had ultimately got that first drop done but my clothes were soaked and I was miserable and badly overheated. With our newly arrived Magnepull system, I set up the wire above the new hole in the top plate - securing the cable end to the Magnepull magnet leader, arranging about 6 feet of slack cable where it wouldn't hang up on anything, and dropped the magnet just inside the top plate angled towards the target wall. In the room below my partner just placed the Magnepull itself against the wall about a foot below the ceiling. We both immediately heard a "thunk" noise as the Magnepull handle's main magnet grabbed the magnet/leader and locked it against the wall. She then just guided the Magnepull down the wall and straight out the single-gang hole where the first drop had exited. No drama. No fuss. I had told her to wait to place the Magnepull against wall until I started timer on my watch to see how much slower or faster that completing the fish of this new drop would go with our new Magnepull toy. From the time I started the timer and told her to go ahead and touch the Magnepull handle piece to the wall until she pulled the magnet/leader and attached new wire out of the device hole took only 15 seconds. Wow. If you had told me during pulling the 1st drop as I described that if I just provided a credit card order for the full price of this tool I could have been on the way out of the attic in 15 seconds instead of 15 minutes of broiling in the attic I would have nearly broken my arm tying to get my wallet out as fast as possible. My 2010 tool version of this tool isn't perfect. Pulling cables through a heavily insulated exterior wall with my 12-year-old original Magnepull was ultimately successful but was sometimes a bit more of a struggle. Sometimes the insulation batts caused the magnet/leader/wire to get hung up and we'd have to do an extra try or two to get the cable all the way down around and/or through the insulation batt to the exit hole. I've since been told that since my 2010 model was made Magnepull is now shipping a stronger magnet in the handle unit to help with that type of fish. I would think that ought to help. Overall if you do much work pulling residential home alarm wires or network cables, I consider the time and effort this tool saves to be easily worth the money. Highly recommended!

Powerful 1/2 inch magnet on a flexible metal whip that allows the user to attach a wire or cable and fish it through a wall. I installed some on wall speakers and this magnetic wire pull worked great with another super magnet I bought on Amazon. See the video of the wire pull whip being pulled along the top of a 1 inch thick hardwood table. 1/2 drywall was not an issue.for pulling power. There’s a couple of tricks to using this wire pull in an exterior, insulated wall. It’s too lengthy to explain here, Google it and see I mean. Hope that helps!

Very strong magnet. Makes my life so much easier. Great quality. Cabling is SO much easier now.

Purchased this item to get doorbell wire pulled through the wall to a chime, doorbell and into the basement, where I have installed a transformer. This is fairly difficult task because the wire is being pulled through an external wall with a dense layer of insulation. The ads for the product tell that it should work with a strong enough magnet. Unfortunately it did not, and I had to find another way of pulling the wire in this case. I am sure this magnetic wire puller would work perfectly for internal walls not being obstructed by the insulation, but for external walls your milage may vary. As for the product itself, it is well made and the magnetic tip is strong. Be sure to keep it in the plastic box it comes with otherwise the spring cord would rust very quickly even in 70% humidity as I found out leaving it on a workshop table for a week. I am not a professional electrician, so I may not know the reason behind the design of magnetic wire pullers, but it seems a bit strange to me that they have a fairly long, flexible, but very tight spring body. When the hole in the wall is only large enough to fit the magnet (like in my project with a doorbell) it is hard to push it inside the wall and it inevitably ends up on the opposite side of the insulation, out of reach of a magnet. Long spring body also guarantees that the puller won't be positioned vertically in the isolation layer creating an extra drag. It seems to me that it would have been better if an eyelet was mounted right on the magnet itself eliminating such problems. Anyhow, going by my experience, it is good for pulling wires in hollow walls and possibly in external walls when you have big openings like for electric outlets and switches, but I am not so sure about the latter. Not good for external walls with small openings. Rusts easily.

Works good enough, but would have preferred a stronger magnet. I have plaster walls which are slightly thicker than drywall so a stronger magnet would have probably done the trick. It was still able to find studs after a few sweeps by it sticking to some of the nails, just not certain if it skipped over others due to thickness of wall.

Watch the YouTube videos on this product, works awesome, I was surprised it even worked pretty good on my mom's 1950's house with lath and plaster, I will buy the big kit next

As an electrical contractor, I own several of these because these babies are indispensable

Es muy pequeño, no cumple al 100 porciento con mi demanda