Blimey, these Rawlplug concrete screws...

[Steve Firth]

Same here, also I feel that using them on "heritage" brickwork is slightly kinder to the building and it's possible to remove and re-mount things a few times before the screw widens the hole so far that it can't be used. At that point one can either use the next sized screw up or used a plugged anchor. Less damage done than Rawlbolts which IMO are brutal and can split brick/block if the user is "over enthusiastic".

[Bert Coules]

Thanks to Steve and Grimly Curmudgeon for the replies. I must look out for the sort of sockets you both mention. I must have misesd them (or simply didn't see the need then) when they were in my local Aldi.

Bert

[Steve Walker]

Nah. You've just reverted to good old plastic Rawlplugs!

SteveW

[Steve Walker]

I have a Halford Pro socket set and the female end of the 1/4" square drive extension just fits into a 13mm chuck, which I have found very useful at times.

SteveW

[Bert Coules]

I just ordered one of these, as mentioned by Steve Firth:

one and only item of DeWalt kit!

Bert

[The Night Tripper]

[...]

I have a use for these coming up. What tool do you use to put in the Torx- headed versions? I was expecting to have to use a bit of leverage and was thinking about buying a Torx 'head' for my socket wrench, but from what you say I'm wondering if that won't be necessary...

Thanks Jon N

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember The Night Tripper saying something like:

I have a set of Draper Torx bits, so just mounted one of those in a cordless drill.