Cobra

[Andy Gaffer]

Evening all,

Anybody know where I can get a Cobra from, not a snake!! need to send some draw cord down some bt ducting, looking at around 50m and could do with being compact.

Thanks.

 

[Jimoz]

Can't help buy have seen the gas boys blast a drawcoard thru tied to a plastic bag with their air line.

 

[hiluxman]

Can't help buy have seen the gas boys blast a drawcoard thru tied to a plastic bag with their air line.

Seen that done a good few times.

Most hire places have cobras.

 

[Komatsu]

Speedy Hire usually have have them or do you want to buy?

https://www.speedyservices.com/24_0029-h-cobra-duct-rod-100m

 

[Brendan]

Another vote for plastic bag, leaf blower does the trick

 

[Lancs Lad]

Bought one of these 90m a few years back.
Very handy bit of kit and more compact than the big frames.
Wasn't from here but this looks identical:

Zexum 6mm Conduit Cable Fishing Cobra (Including Frame) Electrical World

The 6mm cobra is designed to be a cost-effective, compact, and labor saving solution for cable fishing and instillation, whether installing cable through a duct, when using a sonde for locating pipes and blockages, or threading rope or wire th .... £223.50.Fast Delivery at Electrical World.

www.electricalworld.com

 

[V8Druid]

bought a 30m x 5mm GRP one off ebay to get me cable up the duct to me black shed last year ... ebay ... cheap as ... worked a treat .... IIRC there were longer available

 

[Jimoz]

I've run some small ducts upto my new garage for power and alarm. I might even try the Hoover on one end ball of string at the other

 

[DaveDCB]

Use a length of water pipe or draining rods if you don’t have a cobra.. I keep meaning to buy one, but then I always add rope before hand

 

[Komatsu]

Years ago when the old man was building 60’s/70’s..was told the story of a similar sort of issue....one of the old boys bought his pet ferret in......bit of meat at one end, ferret at the other with a bit of fishing line tied to its collar and job done

 

[Gunners]

The blowing the bag trick does work but its a bit unreliable. The bag snags on anything and everything, and on longer runs it just doesn't have the power to pull the cord through. Cobra's are very easy to find for hire for the odd job. Or as others have said, you can find some bargains on ebay. Before Christmas I bought a small reel cobra as the bigger one I had didn't go in the back of my truck very easily. For £50 and it being local I couldn't complain really. Will probably sit in the shed for the next year before I need one now!

 

[Andy Gaffer]

Bought one today for £148.00 + vat 6mm x 80m by the time you've gone to the hire shop and back again it soon adds up and you cannot beat the convenience of having it when you need it, I've tried the air and bag before but we've no compressor on site to start with plus I've got 2'' on to 4'' junction and then round a corner, as Gunners said it will come in for other times.

 

[Danny]

I might treat my self to one of these for the price cant go wrong? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/100M-5mm...804135?hash=item4da5013f27:g:qHkAAOSwGBpeHr4T

 

[Gunners]

For the amount you actually use it, you really cant go wrong with that Dan. Although I'm waiting for Druid to tell us what went wrong with the welding here . Personally if I was selling one, I'd not have bothered zooming in on that particular bit!

 

[V8Druid]

that is bloody cheap ...... so's the std of the welding

 

[Jimoz]

Can't fault the ferret trick

 

[Furniss]

I might treat my self to one of these for the price cant go wrong? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/100M-5mm...804135?hash=item4da5013f27:g:qHkAAOSwGBpeHr4T

Looks like a bargain that - but might be a bit of a unwieldly lump at 100m ? shame he doesnt post to france

 

[DaveDCB]

I might treat my self to one of these for the price cant go wrong? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/100M-5mm...804135?hash=item4da5013f27:g:qHkAAOSwGBpeHr4T

Bargain that! Might just have to add one to the stores for that one time...

 

[V8Druid]

Looks like a bargain that - but might be a bit of a unwieldly lump at 100m ? shame he doesnt post to france

could always get it sent here and have it collected by one of the carriers ... can't imagine it being particularly dear .. not gonna be that heavy ... it is VERY cheap

 

[Furniss]

could always get it sent here and have it collected by one of the carriers ... can't imagine it being particularly dear .. not gonna be that heavy ... it is VERY cheap

Thanks for the offer - I have a 3tonner coming down from a mate in yorkshire in next few weeks - i will see about getting it sent to his and strapped to the bucket or in the cab or something