Raw plugs

Jeff Robinson

Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit

• Dec 23, 2009

• #1

These things:

How are you supposed to use them? I can't work out what they're for. Apparently it's obvious because nobody tells you what to do with them:

Can somebody explain?

 

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Brainaddict

slight system overdrive

• Dec 23, 2009

• #2

That's either rawl plug or wall plug:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_plug

They go into the wall when you've drilled a hole, so that the screw can fit in tightly.

Drill hole, slide plug in, screw into plug

 

Ground Elder

Well-Known Member

• Dec 23, 2009

• #3

Drill hole - bung in raw plug - screw in screw

e2a are we all in agreement?

 

gentlegreen

I hummus, therefore I am ...

• Dec 23, 2009

• #4

The main variation is when you use screws with such large heads that you can drill straight through something, insert a plug and still put the screw in tight without having to remove the thing you're attaching to the wall - "frame fixers" work like that.

 

Herbsman.

Nah Lotion, Pet, Nor Powder.

• Dec 23, 2009

• #5

Jeff Robinson said:

These things:

How are you supposed to use them? I can't work out what they're for. Apparently it's obvious because nobody tells you what to do with them:

Can somebody explain?

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lol

 

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subversplat

writer of wrongs

• Dec 23, 2009

• #6

If you don't use them then your painting/shelf/plasma telly/swinging sex chair's screws are likely to fall out at the worst time.

 

mattie

missing in inaction

• Dec 23, 2009

• #7

What are you fixing into? Don't need them for wood, need them for plaster or any masonry.

 

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Teaboy

It definitely looks brighter over there..

• Dec 23, 2009

• #8

Rawl! It's a brand.

As others have said if you are looking to put a screw into brick, concrete, drywall or anything that isnt wood you really need to use one.

 

madzone

Physically unfavourable

• Dec 23, 2009

• #9

The ones in the pic are for plasterboard aren't they?

 

gentlegreen

I hummus, therefore I am ...

• Dec 23, 2009

• #10

madzone said:

The ones in the pic are for plasterboard aren't they?

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no.



they're "Fischer"-type plugs

A development of the original crude variety of rawlplug.

 

gentlegreen

I hummus, therefore I am ...

• Dec 23, 2009

• #11

For plasterboard, I would go for these for light work :-

and these for heavy :-

The obligatory warning is that if it's a board over a cavity, make sure it isn't asbestos.

 

London_Calling

Pleasant and unpatronising

• Dec 23, 2009

• #12

So it's not about a sub-genre of anal play then?

 

mattie

missing in inaction

• Dec 23, 2009

• #13

London_Calling said:

So it's not about a sub-genre of anal play then?

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Done properly, no.

 

Wookey

Muppet is not a slur

• Dec 23, 2009

• #14

*loses interest*