SilverlinePlumb Bob & Line 118g (250581), Yellow

Good strong line

The moment I saw the product package I knew there was something up. I ran to the kitchen and held up a banana against the packet. No, no, it's definitely not yellow. Then I worked my way through the fruit bowl and came to the conclusion it's actually orange. Not "an" orange, but the colour. My OCD immediately kicked in. How was I supposed to deal with one of my tools being orange when all the rest are yellow?Despite that, it's a good product. It's a decent size too. It's about 6cm long and 2cm wide. That's a guess, I didn't measure it. Oh damn now I have to measure it. It's 6.6cm long and 1.8cm wide.There is tons of string. I'm not going to measure it. No, really, I'm not. Damn it. It's 16m long.The string is what lost it one star. It's too fine and it just knots too easily. I guarantee you when you try to prepare this for first use you are going to spend half an hour untangling the huge orange ball you end up with. It's also stretchy, which is really not good.Recommend even though it doesn't match my set of yellow tools and I now have to take anti-depressants.

Once you have made up a suitable H shaped string winder then this worked really well with plenty of line and decent weight. I used to to fit +80 mtrs of guttering 8 6 mtr down pipe and this bit of kit was invaluable.

Seems fine for the money, the string is probably excessive but too much is better than not enough. But the package says 'guaranteed forever'. What exactly is guaranteed? That the weight will always be heavy? That it will always hang downwards? That it won't change it's name to Robert?

Used this to feed Ethernet cable through a cavity wall. Worked a treat! Line didn't fray or break, and there was plenty of line too.

It is a plumb line that does what is expected of it, and as loathe as I am to complain of too much value for the life of me I cannot understand why it is attached to the line it is! If you're building a block of flats then ok I get it but if !ike me you are wallpapering the bathroom? Still I guess I'll find a use for the extra!

Gave 3 stars as the string was tied somewhere in the middle which came apart into 2 pieces so left the string line a lot shorterBut nothing majorInsert string tie a not and do the nut back upDoes the job

Out on site, don’t want to worry about it getting stolen, this is the plumb for you. Cheap, practical and does the job. Choose the weight wisely and even just as a spare, it’s not bad a at all, especially for the price. Delivered quickly. Machined poorly but hey, it’s cheap as chips.