1/8 Inch Stainless Steel 7x7 Aircraft Wire Rope - 500ft T316 Marine Grade Cable with Cutter for Deck Railing, Fence, DIY Projects | Outdoor & Indoor Use for Home, Boat, RV, Garden

disclaimer - this review will be copy/pasted to another Senmit item, as the review is intended to reflect the entire railing system we used.TL;DR - buy this, save money, pat yourself on the back with tired hands. If I need cable railing in the future, this will absolutely be used above any preposterously expensive brand you see elsewhere (Feeney, Atlantis, etc etc). I can buy a decent used car with the money we saved using Senmit's stuff. Also, get ready for all your wife's friends to compliment your big, gorgeous deck, you perv.While this product isn't perfect, I can deal with a few small issues to save 80 percent from some of the more well-known options. We'll have close to 1,300 linear feet of cabling and 270 or so connections when we're finished with our deck, so a decent amount of experience after never using any cable railing before. Our total cost will end up at about $850 for the cabling/lag screws/crimper, whereas the option I *thought* we would end up with was going to run about $3,700.The "bad", AKA just stuff to be aware of while you're saving thousands of dollars:- a helper is very nice to have. My dad helped with about 2/3 of the work, but this is easily an instance where 2+2=5 when it comes to labor multipliers. It helps for measuring/cutting cable to length, crimping the lags, hand-screwing the lags in, etc etc. Definitely not required, just helps immensely and can get you a drink on demand.- your hands will kill you. Get over it while drinking a beer and enjoying your unimpeded view, pansy. But then again, this deck is quite large, so designer error on my part, I suppose. YMMV.- we used specifically the hydraulic crimper that Senmit sells. It seems to work pretty well and be good enough quality, but the crimps pretty consistently bend the lag screw at the crimp location itself. This was easily remedied by putting the unthreaded end of the lag screw (after crimping, of course) into a vice and lightly hitting it with a mallet until they got straitened out. Even after that, and tightening them down pretty well, the crimps all seem to hold well enough to support the weight of hefty toddlers.- the little tool they send with the lag screws works well enough, but you'll need to smack it back into shape occasionally, as the teeth will spread apart and round off a bit. Again, a hammer and vice are your friends, just be judicious. DEFINITELY WRAP THAT BUGGER WITH DUCT TAPE to save your booger pickers. It softens up the repetitive turning motions that make your supple, uncalloused fingies will moan about later.- the cable cutter that comes with the roll of cable kinda sucks. It works, and cuts the cable well enough, so at least you don't have to go buy one. I tossed the free ones and used the better quality one I already had, though.- build a jig to accurately and quickly repeat the lag screw locations on all the posts, dummy.- the drill bit they send with the lag screws is helpful, and sharp enough. It has a nice, fine point on the end that helps prevent the bit from sliding off the harder grain of the wood. I was really happy with this, so definitely doesn't belong under the "bad" list, this is just me getting lazy and realizing I wasn't going to make a "good" list, as the results speak well enough for themselves.