ryebred Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 For those that have rainbow wall runners, perhaps you can help me. I have two wall runners each placed in three lighting tubes and I mounted the three tubes underneath the eaves of the house shining down on my garage door. The problem is the cat5 cable that connects the two in each tube is not totally straight so I can get one wall runner aimed at the spot I want but the other is pointing straight up, for instance. I tried to use some double sided sticky tape and I manged to get them both pointed downward, however when I came out the next day, the tape had pulled loose and one was pointing a different direction again.How do you guys get your wall runners to stay in the exact position you want them in inside of the plastic tube? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponddude Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 The way I mounted mine last year was with thumb tack. It held up all winter long too!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryebred Posted October 8, 2010 Author Share Posted October 8, 2010 Ponddude wrote: The way I mounted mine last year was with thumb tack. It held up all winter long too!!So you pushed a thumb tack through the plastic housing and into the wall runner? Or did you glue it to the wall runner and then poke that through the plastic housing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponddude Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 Sorry, I miss typed there. I don't mean thumb tack, like the thing you stick in a corkboard...I mean the stick stuff you use to hang pictures. Almost like silly putty. It is blue in color but can't remember the name off the top of my head....:? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huskernut Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 I tie wrapped 2 runners to a yard stick and slid the assembly into the tube. The whole thing presented just enough resistance inside the tube that they stay in place very nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryebred Posted October 10, 2010 Author Share Posted October 10, 2010 huskernut wrote: I tie wrapped 2 runners to a yard stick and slid the assembly into the tube. The whole thing presented just enough resistance inside the tube that they stay in place very nicely.Thanks a lot for this suggestion. I found three yard sticks at Home Depot for 60 cents each and attached them to the two wall runners and inserted them into the tube. Now they are all pointing in the correct direction and the tight fit means they wont move at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponddude Posted October 10, 2010 Share Posted October 10, 2010 ryebred wrote: huskernut wrote: I tie wrapped 2 runners to a yard stick and slid the assembly into the tube. The whole thing presented just enough resistance inside the tube that they stay in place very nicely.Thanks a lot for this suggestion. I found three yard sticks at Home Depot for 60 cents each and attached them to the two wall runners and inserted them into the tube. Now they are all pointing in the correct direction and the tight fit means they wont move at all.Thats a really good idea! I didn't think of that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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