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Watched a new guy run 300 feet of coax through a hot attic in July without a single staple gun jam
Last month I was on a two man job in Gilbert, Arizona and got paired with a kid who was three weeks out of training. I figured I would have to redo his rough in, but he knocked out 300 feet of RG6 in an attic that hit 140 degrees without one staple gun jam or a single kink. Turns out he was wrapping the cable around his wrist once before each shot so it fed straight off the spool instead of twisting. I have been running a staple gun for 11 years and never thought of that. Any of you tried this on long pulls or is it just luck?
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singh.blair11h ago
The wrist wrap trick probably matters more for how the spool sits than the staple gun itself, since most jams come from the cable jerking sideways off a tight coil. 300 feet with zero jams in that heat is a real sign he was paying attention to the feed, not just lucky.
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wendyk6311h ago
Your point about the spool sitting right is dead on. I watched a guy on YouTube run a test where he wrapped the cable a certain way on his wrist and the spool stayed put the whole time, and he said the jams dropped to almost nothing. He also kept his lead hand low and steady so the line fed straight instead of yanking sideways. Heat makes the jacket sticky too, so a clean feed path matters even more when it is 90 plus out. Dude earned that zero jam run.
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