Poor Man's Pulling Cone

[kingquad]

Well, I figured I would post this because lots of people seem to be installing this time of year. I made this to help me pull my liner down my chimney. This was made with pieces I had laying around the house, but could be bought for less than $10 at a hardware store. This is a piece of track from a stainless steel wall stud system. I basically cut and bent it into the shape you see. I took an I bolt I had laying around and attached it at the top, and used some old 550 cord to pull it down the chimney. I rounded it were it seated against the inside of the liner and secured it to the liner with sheet metal screws. It took less than 5 minutes to pull my 5.5 inch liner down a 7x11in. I.D. chimney.

 

[woodmiser]

You can use a plastic funnel also.

 

[scotvl]

good idea, nice tin work.

 

[pen]

Looks good.

Just mentioned this in a thread the other day, when I did mine I thought I could get it down there w/out one. That was a failure. Since everything was ready to go the quickest thing I could come up w/ was tying a rope around the center of a bath towel, shoved the towel into the liner, then wrapped the end of the liner w/ duct tape. Pulled down like a charm.

pen

 

[WoodpileOCD]

kingquad and pen: Both very resourceful solutions. Nice....

 

[bogydave]

Good ole "American ingenuity" + some duct tape
I bet it worked fine.

 

[Hogwildz]

Nice job. I think you'll find the stud is actually galvanized though ;-)
S.S. studs would cost a mint to make and sell.