Re: Question for installer types...

["Neil Fuller" <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Depends on the size of nail in the clip but the Tower 51APO wall plugs work
quite well in very hard blocks or concrete. They are for very small (No4)
screws and just have a small pilot hole down the middle of a bit of solid
plastic.

Thay are pretty hard to get hold of compared the the yellow/red/brown range
that most people stock.

Use about a 4mm drill and tap the plugs in flush with the surface.

You can find the brochure page here

http://www.towerman.co.uk/pdf/fixings/wall_plugs.pdf

I've also used P-clips (like Pyro clips) before now in similar situations
but it is a lot more work.

Cheers

Neil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Noble" <yahoo-groups@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 3:45 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Question for installer types...


>
> Is there some trick to getting coax size (6-7mm) cable clips to go
into
> a wall without the nail buckling and bending?
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> Either the cement in my walls has added unobtanium, I'm using the
wrong
> sort of clips (standard ones from TLC), or I'm doing something
> drastically wrong!
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> About 1 in 3 clips went in vaguely cleanly. The deck at the back of
the
> house is now strewn with the mutilated remains of the other 2/3rds of
> the clips I used - and I only managed to put up 2 cable runs of about
> 5-10m each due to the time it was taking to get the darned thing to
> cling to the wall! Bah.
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> Maybe I need a bigger hammer (:*) or maybe there's some sort of
powered
> cable clipper you're all using...? (Can an air nailer do that?)
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> Jim
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