{"id":9334,"date":"2019-11-22T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors-old.visualit.com.es\/how-to-fit-a-cable-passage-on-a-steel-door\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T07:28:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:28:29","slug":"how-to-fit-a-cable-passage-on-a-steel-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors-old.visualit.com.es\/en\/blog\/how-to-fit-a-cable-passage-on-a-steel-door\/","title":{"rendered":"How to fit a cable passage on a steel door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cable passage is used to allow the electric power to get from the frame through to the door. It consists of a spring to pass the cable through and of a base that allows to secure it to the door.<\/p>\n<h3>To install a cable passage, follow the steps:<\/h3>\n<p>1. <b>Cut a rectangular hole <\/b>of 265x25mm, as per the stencil, on the edge of the door at approximately 400mm from the lower end<\/p>\n<p>2. Pass the cable through the door<b> from the locks cylinder hole to the previously cut hole<\/b>, leaving enough cable on each side for the installation<\/p>\n<p>3. <b>Insert the end of the cable in the base hole and secure it<\/b> to the edge of the door using two provided sheet metal screws<\/p>\n<p>4. <b>Pass the cable trough the chrome plated spring and secure it <\/b>to the base with 2 provided M4 screws<\/p>\n<p>5. <b>Drill a 14mm diameter hole<\/b> into the frame, at 232mm from the upper side of the stencil<\/p>\n<p>6. <b>Pass the cable trough and screw<\/b> the other end of the chrome plated spring to the frame of the door with two provided sheet metal screws.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/asturmadidoors-old.visualit.com.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pasacables-1.jpg\" alt=\"cable passage\" \/><br \/>\nWant to know more?<br \/>\nE-mail us at info@asturmadi.com<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/asturmadidoors-old.visualit.com.es\/en\/contact\/\">https:\/\/asturmadidoors-old.visualit.com.es\/en\/contact\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cable passage is used to allow the electric power to get from the frame through to the door. It consists of a spring to pass the cable through and of a base that allows to secure it to the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-rated-doors-installation","category-instalacion-puertas-cortafuegoprofesional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors-old.visualit.com.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors-old.visualit.com.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors-old.visualit.com.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors-old.visualit.com.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors-old.visualit.com.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors-old.visualit.com.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors-old.visualit.com.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors-old.visualit.com.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors-old.visualit.com.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asturmadidoors-old.visualit.com.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}