Problem clone-stamping a path

Hi,
I am trying to get rid of electric cables in front of buildings and somewhere I found the suggestion to create a path, then switch to clone stamp, sample the source and then go to the paths palette and shift-click it (to disable the drawing of the path) and then drag the path to the stroke button in the paths palette.
Well, in a way it works but not perfectly. By this I mean that it only removes the whole width of the cable in the central region of the path, and kind of feathers towards each end (or begin/end) - that is, it seems to apply the stamp in a progressive manner, starting with a very small stamp and then growing (as if the effect was desired to be slowly introduced and then slowly removed), reaching good behavior in the middle and then reducing its diameter of effect again as it moves to the other end of the path. This is annoying because it does not let me get rid of cable in one blow - which was the promise of the author who presented this technique.
I have a feeling that somewhere there is a switch that disables this progressive application of the stamp along the path.
Anybody knows?
Best regards,
Juan Dent

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