Steel DN Mate 100 Packs T316 Stainless Steel Left&Right Handed Thread Swage Lag Screws Black for Wood Post of 1/8" Deck Cable Railing Kit,Stair Railing, DIY Baluster Hardware, Wrench Included

Very cost-effective and easy product to install great quality

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!

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Combined it with the cable and the crimping tool. Must of installed 50 pieces with 3 crimps each. Held up all summer. We will see what winter brings. Happy with the look and finish. A little time consuming to turn in a half turn at a time and I did both ends myself. 5 rotations on the right then 5 on the left repeat. But did the job .

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.