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internal halyards

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Long story short, mast is down, no messenger lines installed, halyards are internal.
Before I go buy a roll of piano wire do you think pushing piano wire down the inside
of a mast is going to work as a messenger? At the mast head there are individual holes that the halyards go through then over the sheaves. I thought of using an electrician fish tape but that radius bend from the sheave to the hole is pretty sharp.
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+1 for the fish tape suggestion (although the kid in me wants to try the ShopVac option.)

Here's a 50' Harbor Freight tape that won't hurt the wallet, won't rust/corrode too badly and still gets the job done pretty well. I've been happy with mine.

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