re securing screw and wall plugs

A run of 2.5mm2 swa cable and clips that supply a workshop have somehow got pulled out of the brickwork, rather than replace the wall plugs would just pushing the screws in to the old holes filled with resin anchor hold better in soft bricks?

AJH

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If you want the screws to be tight and hold the clips properly, you'd have to put pressure on each one until the resin sets.

Why not put the plugs back, held in with resin and put the screws back once the resin has set?

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Charles Hope

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Neat invention which saves vast amounts of time or

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When about 50m of cable fixed with these cleats held by screws and plugs

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got taken walkies by a forklift it was re fixed by filling each hole (after blowing it clean) with hot melt adhesive and pushing the plug and screw back in. Held for several years.

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Peter Parry

I have successfully stuck wallplugs back into slightly dodgy holes preceded by a squirt of neat PVA, allowing it to dry before replacing the screw. Ordinary wood adhesive would probably work too (usually comes in convenient squirty tubes). The plug needs to be a reasonable push fit, not completely loose. Decorator's filler takes too long to set in that geometry.

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newshound

Slightly bigger plugs? Maybe Fischer plugs.

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Tim Watts

Not stocked currently

That might be worth a bash.

AJH

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They're a Fischer product, available elsewhere, e.g.

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Andy Burns

Thanks these ones are a bit smaller but they have the same ones as Peter's link, price delivered is comparable with Screwfix collected so I'll try some.

AJH

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