Cabling: Tools rough draft #1. Opinions/Suggestions desired.

I just stabbed my self with mine,,, racing nightfall to get an LPR wired before the rain and dark hit...lol.....I havent used it in quite a few years.. was punching a jack by holding it on the table, with taped fingers full of stitches....bam! right in the side of the finger thats healing...mother of fuck!

Not to slight the injuries of anyone... but I must confess that sometimes it seems worser-er-er when you fail to notice the cut side of the tool is not on the correct side.

clunk... FFFAAACCCCKKKK!!

Of course, it seldom happens when there is an abundance of cable available... nor when the conditions are not miserable.

Been there, done that......Yes trying to get 1 inch or 1/2 inch on a patch panel is all you need to fix the mistake, but it's hard some times wiggle everything around to get that little bit of extra....especially if you dressed in the bulk of the cabling already and it's looking nice and neat...

Small error correction suggestion:

Holbs said:

But sometimes, you want to poke the Cat6 cable straight out a wall or through a cement wall with a ⅛” drill bit instead of the needed ½” hole for wire+plug end.

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Er, that would be at least a 1/4" hole (or really 5/16" to make it easily) for any Cat6 cable, not 1/8". Even with an end on it, it generally needs more than a 1/2" hole, 9/16" minimum.
Minor quibbles, otherwise awesome work putting this together, really well done.

As I learned later.....This particular female wall plate jack only needed mild pressure to push it home and it cut the end without That loud click/bam pressure.....must be slightly different design than i used to use years ago....maybe they got better?
But Wounded warrior Johnny put that mother in the Vise and worked the final 7 wires in watching carefully to keep his G$#!D^3@! fingers outta the way...

Just to add,

Here in Florida, the single-story split floor plan is very common. Meaning the middle of the home is typically the main room and each end are bedrooms. The main room almost always has a vaulted ceiling for cooling with scissor trusses. In the average size home, the space between the scissor trusses is pretty much impossible to crawl through due to the presence of the main HVAC trunk at the peak and other mechanicals and electric. This arrangement makes running wire from one end to the other challenging, especially if you have a larger home. It becomes a real pain to guide fish rods over the scissor trusses and around said mechanicals, as they tend to develop their own sense of direction, the longer they get.

What I have done is used 2.5-inch conduit and carefully fished it from one end of scissor trusses to the other. The conduit won't bend like fish rods, and you'll have an easy future path for new runs. Be sure to feed the conduit straight cut first, with the flange following, otherwise it will hang up easier on the truss work and other obstacles.