Great ideas, I laughed when you said about feeding the hose first as that's the sort of thing I'd do only rembering after I'd threaded it.

That's a good solution I think as if I feed the wire through a hole drilled right through the frame it will be the strongest.

If I'm going to loop the braided cable through the hole drilled in the frame and then tie off with those wire rope grips would I need to worry about insulating the cable loop with something so it didn't fray rubbing metal on metal in the hole ?

Thanks