SWANLAKE 33' Fish Tape

These are great! Good price. If your looking for affordable rods this is your best option

Much longer than the standard Klein kit at my local home depot, much better price for the same length. I've seen a lot of reviews on here mentioning how the bends made their sticks snap. I really don't know how they had this happen, I had to pull a VERY long horizontal length, almost 30 feet and before I fed my line through completely I looked back and the whole thing was bending around the room that I was in. I hadn't expected to see that but I wasn't trying to bend it that much either, I think I would have to try to break it in order for it to happen honestly. No, it doesn't glow in the dark, but the green tone is easy to see in a dark space if you shine your flashlight. Less than half the price for the same length of a Klein kit, glad I picked this one up instead.

Flexibility and included ends are perfect. My only problem is that the threaded ends have a sharp edge that gets hung up on everything. If this was beveled it would be fine. I’m going to try some heat shrink or maybe just bevel the edge on a bench grinder to try and make it pull smoothly.

I bought this fiberglass pull kit to help me run Ethernet cables through my attic. In reading reviews of this and similar products I suspected that the rods might be (and in fact are) rather flexible. Therefore for a difficult 15' pull I bought the 10 meter length, then constructed two 16' lengths and taped them side-by-side for extra rigidity. This allowed me to better push the rods over several obstructions, attach my cable, and securely pull it back to a new location where I needed it. The product worked as I hoped, the brass end pieces seemed well attached and screwed together easily, and the various attachments are nice to have for use in different situations.

I was running various types of cables (mainly ethernet and coax) through my attic and across the house. These poles really helped me do a solo job and glad I got the 33' product... thought I could get away the shorter version of this, but the longer one with extra poles to extend out really glad I had that available on a couple of occasions (while in the attic and in awkward position - ie - laying in insulation running wire down a wall). Overall, great product and comes in its own clear plastic tube for storage. The green color of the poles was also very helpful, as shining light on them, they stood out right away.

First, I am not an electrician or a general handyman. I am an average DIY-er that likes to be able to do projects in my own house. I bought these to help run some cat6 cable into my ceiling to then run a network to every room in my house. At the end of the day, the sticks got the job done.However, it came at the price of some of the heads on the rods coming loose, one rod snapping, and many of the rods having fiberglass exposed. That last one is the one I am rating the product so low. I've used other rods in the past, and I know you are supposed to use gloves when you use fiberglass anything, but these were not like some that I have used before. I have never had an issue with getting fiberglass splinters in my hands when putting rods away. For this set I feel like I got enough fiberglass splinters to last a lifetime. Not sure if I got a bad batch where they weren't made/cured correctly, but it was such a pain, literally, to handle these after the work. I was legitimately scared to touch them again.

We needed to get our tv cable wire into another room. After measuring the distance from different points I was able to measure in our attic and find where we needed to drop the cable. I taped the cable to the end of the fiberglass point and ran the wire down to where it could be hooked out the opening we drilled in the wall. Our inner walls are double insulated so I was hoping it would go down easily. Everything went as we expected and we had ample attachments that came with it if we needed. I recommend this product!

Initial Review: Set has plenty of rods and add on stuff. If you are using them for light applications they are fine. My problem is that I have had the brass ends just pull off of the rod when pulling through walls and I end up losing the stick/s left in the wall, does not make for a happy day. The threads as also VERY short so all you need is a little bit of twisting on the pole and they disconnect from each other. Not a huge problem in an open ceiling when you can retrieve both ends, BIG problem in a wall when the disconnected end just disappears into the wall cavity. So far I am down to 7 of the 10 sticks due to wall losses. I have had to start taping the joints so they don't self disconnect if I am in a wall cavity with any resistance (insulation, etc). For the price they are workable for some of my light work but I will be spending bigger on another set of rods with better build quality.I do light the flexibility and the fact they use round (smooth) connectors. Nothing worse than these companies that use hexagon ends that always get caught up on an edge somewhere. A little bit more engineering and they could have a really nice set.UPDATED REVIEWUnderstand that I utilize these on a frequent basis so this may not apply to users that are tasking these with work on a once or twice a year basis.Complete FAIL. I now only have (1) pole that is undamaged. All of the remaining poles have had the ends come off or the male connector has failed (broke in half).The actual poles have held up well with only 1 of them de-laminating and snapping into shards of fiberglass.Please consider what you are using them for and how often you will use them. Daily use is a NO-NO, once or twice a year for simple jobs....best deal out there.Good luck.