Helffer 1/8 T316 Stainless Steel Cable, 164 FT Wire Rope, 7x7 Strands Construction Braided Wire Rope, Strong Load-Bearing Steel Cable for Deck Cable Railing Kit Outdoor DIY Baluster

What’s not to like about an enormous amount of cable to run for all your outdoor lights and shade netting. Quality product and highly recommend.

Yep... its 1/8 twisted stainless steel wire... it works. Definitely recommended.

This is nice, heavy duty wire that we will be using at the back of our property to string some outdoor lights onto. It’s great that it will not rust and is stronger so that we don’t have to keep redoing it. This is a very manageable thickness. Perfect for our needs!

I use a lot of aircraft cable in Theater rigging. This is excellent cable, standard construction, not just some weird wire. This will fit 1/8 inch Nicopress sleeves which is my preferred method of fastening. Cable clamps would also work. I do not usually use Stainless, but this would be good for outdoor rigging or sailboat rigging.

This is a great size cable for use while still being flexible. Got it to secure through my fencing on my chicken runs. Easy to deal with while still having plenty of strength. Probably overkill but should out last me and Ill never have to worry about it again.

Its great they supply a cutter tool with the 656 foot and 984 foot spools. But there is no stop on how far you can open the handles, and its really easy for the spring to pop out (and it may spring away, making difficult to find, lol) If the spring does take off on you, a magnet may help you in your search. The wire rope arrives on a really nice and stout, long lasting spool, which is really helpful not just for storage, but for long runs and repeated runs (like five runs for a long railing). This is a kind of special type of Stainless Steel, with a high iron content (ferritic stainless steel), and that iron is not in a metallurgical state called austinite. 304 & 316 SS are austinitic, but austenite can be converted to martensite or ferrite, which are both magnetic by high temperatures (like welding) or cold working and extremely low temperatures, resulting in stainless steel that IS MAGNETIC. The key point is that wire rope can be used for a lot of different purposes, and if you buy this because SS is not magnetic, be fore warned. It being magnetic is not the type of thing most sellers would note in an ad. The wire has a stiffness quality that is significant and one of the first things you will notice. That helps with the wire wanting to straighten itself. Even if you get a kink with a bend that is as tight as a one inch radius, the wire will straiten out within seconds. Go tighter than one inch, and it will form a bend. I dont know if the ad was clear, but this is UNCOATED wire rope (NOT vinyl coated). Note it measures slightly UNDER 1/8 inch because it appears to be 3 mm thick in diameter (0.118 inches in diameter). Keep that in mind if you double that up for a thimble and wire rope clip (such as for stringing lights). If you do intend to use this wire rope with those U-bolt looking clips with the saddle and two nuts, watch what kind of saddle a particular manufacturer supplies. I have some clips here that I purchased for different, vinyl coated wire rope. One is metric, the other US manufactured. The metric one does not fit this un-coated wire rope (made for the thicker vinyl coating over 3 mm wire). But the US version of similar size fits both!! This is because of the shape of the saddle is more of a V form and not rounded like the metric designs are. So I would put a little more thought into buying clips for this wire rope than just the given size. That V design in the saddle makes ANY size more secure, where with metric clips, you are explicitly told they are not reliable and to use crimp on clips in addition to the bolt on clips. Just a word of caution, lol. All told, this is great wire rope, at a terrific price, but be sure you realize it is metric and not S.A.E. American units. Thinking it is 1/8 inch may not get you into trouble, but then again, be ready for lifes little surprises due to engineered designs and fits! Who would think about the saddle on a wire rope clip? I did, lol.

This wire rope worked great for securing the privacy screen behind my fence. Its held up great in the weather so far and theres plenty of length on this role to do the entire yard in one piece so I am very happy to be able to get this project done finally. I recommend this wire rope.

Used for 3 100ft runs in my polebarn to hold up the netting for a batting cage. Worked well and very little sag. Would order again.

Kudos to the delivery driver. This box, while small, felt like it had lead bricks in it. Thank you Amazon guy! I bought this for a specific purpose. I put up an antenna mast outside of a small workshop I recently built. It’s not like a 600-foot FM radio tower or anything. Just a 20-foot mast that I didn’t want to attach to the side of the building. I needed to run some guy-wires to keep it secure. I love that this spool come with cable cutters. I thought for sure they’d try to skimp on those but they were actually a pretty heavy-duty and durable pair of cutters. The wire rope is a good thickness to work with. Not too thick and stiff so that it’s easy to manipulate, but not so thin that I worry about it failing under load from wind or something. For my needs, it was just the right diameter. It was fairly easy to cut, no worse than other wire rope I’ve used. It went around a thimble nicely and was able to be crimped with the existing sleeves and crimp tool I had. I used some turnbuckles to ensure good tension. So far so good. I can’t speak to longevity while exposed to the elements but if this cable fails sooner than I expect it to, I will update my review.

Review is for the 328 roll. Quality is better that any other SS wire I have ever used, with the finish on it being exceptionally smooth. I am using this to create deck railing cables around a raised outdoor tiki hut. I am also using this manufacturer’s cable railing hardware kit (ASIN # B09V448CKC). After cutting through this, it is in fact as advertised (7 sets of 7 strands/set). The advertised diameter is correct and it fits into my railing hardware as it should. Using a cable wire cutter I had no trouble cutting through this cleanly. The ends were in no hurry to unravel either, which makes installing this much easier. For those intending to un-spool off a rack mount, the spool hole diameter is 15/16. Spool width is 3.75. Too soon to comment on longevity, but so far my expectations are high.