Cable Railing Hardware 1/8" T316 Swage Lag Screws for Wood Post 100Pack

Everything I ordered (cable, cutter, crimper, and swage lag screws for wood posts) are super high quality, including the wrenches that come with the swage lag screws. Really great product, couldn't be happier with the results. I built 2 sets of floating stairs for 'mini-lofts' in my new home, the pictures show one set of stairs with the Steel DN Mate cables/swage lag screws. First time using cable railing, so there was a little bit of a learning curve. After installing close to 100 cable runs on my staircases, a couple ideas for installation on wood posts for other potential buyers. Admittedly, my staircases are custom and quite steep, so I had to build a couple custom drill blocks for the screw holes. And I used cedar posts, a relatively soft wood. That being said, my angles being so steep, it was pretty tricky installing the lag screws without scratching the wood post on the angled runs, even with the angled wrench that comes with the screws. In fact, the last few turns after scratching my posts on my initial try at the steep posts, I used small vise grip pliers around the crimps on the screws to turn the lag screw in all the way as the crimps are far enough away from the post while sinking the threads for the pliers not to touch the wood. The angled wrench started scratching the posts with about 2-3 threads remaining to be sunk into the wood due to the wrench slot on the lag screw right up against the threads of the lag screw. However, the vise grips did not leave a mark on the crimps, so it was not a problem. That showed me how well the swage lag screws were made - no scratches even with bare pliers. During the entire project, no parts from Steel DN Mate failed me. I looked at the Steel DN Mate store on Amazon, and didn't see a product like what I wished I had during my installation - a ratchet wrench that would grip the crimp marks to help install the lag screws. That would be awesome, even though the wrenches included with the screws are high quality. Had Steel DN Mate offered such a tool (which would keep the tool away from the wood posts) and just generally help installation I would have purchased it. Since the crimp marks withstood vise grip pliers, I can imagine they could come up with something that like a gripping ratcheting wrench would make installing the lag screws on straight and angled holes a breeze. Another helpful suggestion might be a longer handle on the crimper. It takes a good bit of strength to make the crimps, and such that it's easy to not hold the tool perfectly straight which ends up with slightly bent lag screws. However, once the cables are tensioned, the tension generally straightens out the crimped lag screws fine. So with steep stairs, and soft wood, one must be pretty careful during the install. And doing two staircases which took me about a week of pretty solid work to make up all the cables - all the crimping and tightening of the lag screws can be a good bit tiring. But I can't argue with the results, I recommend the products from Steel DN Mate highly. I hope others might find some of my comments helpful, in no way do my comments criticize the products, I just wanted the information to be helpful to others.

My wife and I redid our deck and added about 100 of these for a nice wire railing. Easy to use and install. Not sure if it’s the quality of these or all of them but they do bend a little bit when using a manual crimping tool with the wire. Most likely would get less bending if you used a powered crimper.

Very happy with these cable "lags", worked well and fairly easy for my project. Here are a few suggestions for use. Prior to beginning, buy high quality drill bits and a hydraulic crimping tool ($45) Carefully measure and determine how many lags, guides and cable you will need. First, create a pre-drilled "template" and drill all holes, I even suggest counter-sinking the holes slightly for looks Then prime/paint all the wood Insert the lag into a drill, use the drill to drive it into the wood post all the way - then back it out so you can see 3 grooves Insert the cable and use the hydraulic tool to crimp it into the lag Pull the cable taunt to the other lag and pinch it between your thumb and fore-finger then cut. No need to measure. Insert the cable and crimp, use the tools to slightly tighten, wait until all cables are installed to "piano" tighten as you can over tighten a cable and actually "bow" a support if not careful. Some of your lags will be crooked because the hole was drilled at an angle or you were too rough with crimping, however as the cables get tightened most of these will straighten out quite a bit. Stairs are tougher, I used an angled "guide", however it was limited to 30 degrees and I actually needed 32 but honestly think I could do it by eye just as well. Code in Mass is no cable run over 4' without an addl support, cables need to be no more than 4" apart but pros usually go 3" My project that you can see in the pics cost me roughly $600 including paint and accessories.

The product looks great after install. But if you want to save time you’ll have to experiment. 1. You can measure post to post and subtract the 1.5” for the wire. This will work on a level surface. Except if you did not shoot the drill completely level or straight - the 1.5” will likely be taking “too much”. Always do 1.6” just in case. 2. If you cut the wire a bit too long and can’t manually turn the hand tool, grip your hydraulic crimping on the wire screw and manually turn it this way. You could just start over but who would wanna do that? 3. When doing the wire cutting, have someone hold the other end of the wire you just cut - to line it up with the second wire you needed for the same posts and cut until you have the needed amount. 4. Use a drill to drill the wire screw into the post to get it started. Attempt to get the screw into the post the same depth - do a thread count and get a rough guess/count on proceeding screws. 5. Use a cobalt, not supplied, 3/16th drill bit for tapping the wire screw holes. 6. On stairs, throw away the directions they gave you on 2” between posts. It would depend on the depth of your stairs for that to make sense anyway. You’ll be in for a rough few hours on one section if you don’t listen to this advice. You need to set the wire screws to a COUNTABLE thread count on each side. You then place the wire into the hole of one wire screw until the wire hits the bottom of the wire screw. Drag some wire to the opposing post’s leading edge and line it up with where the wire would go. Cut the wire approximately 0.25” shorter than the leading edge of the post. If this is too long/short then you will eventually get a feel for where this cut needs to go. Once you get this down it’ll be cake.

The manufacturing seems better as well as the wrenches are beefy and less prone to failure

great prce super fast delivery. I think this is one of the best cable rail systems out thyere and very affordable. I have installed others, and this is now the one I recommend

Good quality

It’s a great kit. Easy to install. Cheaper than the premade railing kits out there. I just installed them. Let’s see if they hold up in New England weather.

v good

I recently bought 4 products from Steel DN Mate: -The Stainless Steel Lag Screws for Wood Post of 1/8": Works really well with the tool provided. Because there are Left and Right screw, it prevents the cable from twisting. Good quality, really solid! -The 1/8" Stainless Steel Cable for Deck Cable Railing System: Great quality again! It comes with a cutter that works perfectly. -The Stainless Steel Protector Sleeves for 1/8" Wire Rope: Nice look for a finish on a wood post. I really like the way the sleeve can hide a hole that isn`t perfectly drilled. -And the Hydraulic Crimping Tool: Works perfectly for the Stainless Steel Lag Screws. I crimped the screws at two different places. It seems really strong, even with a lot of tension on the cables and the finish look is great. I am really satisfied with all of the products above. As you can see on the pictures, the finish look is awesome. It was super easy to install. Honestly it took me about 4 hours to install everything. I didn’t waste any screws or cable and no defaults were found on the tools provided. I would strongly recommend this company for your deck project. Overall, it gives a great look at a low cost!

Worked grea

Perfect right now, just installed. I will review again in few months to see if they will rust. It was easy to install with drill bits and tools included in package to adjust tension

J’ai refait les rampes de mon deck. j’ai acheté les vis , les câbles noir et le kit de crimping sur amazon. Il y a plusieurs petite étapes à faire avant d’installer un câble: 1-mesurer le câble, le couper à 1,5 pouces de moins que la longeur entre les 4x4 2- enlever environ 3-4 cm de revêtement noir de chaque côté du cable 3- installer les vis avec Léa pince à crimper Nous avons fait deux crimp par vis 4- viser les vis un peu à droite et un peu à gauche en même temps donc si la distance est longue, vaut mieux être deux Ca donne une rampe moderne et jolie Je suis très heureuse du résultat