Bashing in cable clips

[Bill Wright]

No good. It seems OK when you do it, but after months/years it comes loose.

Bill

[dennis]

You probably want something a bit smaller. I have used wooden skewers when I didn't have anything else. they are about 3mm dia.

[stuart noble]

IIRC masonry bits seem to start at 4mm

[Chris Hogg]

Just measured my finest at 3mm across the cutting head, but I'll admit that 2mm was probably a bit optimistic!

[Peter Johnson]

• 1 (Discovered that just a few weeks ago.)

[Peter Johnson]

A splodge of No More Nails down the hole before inserting the dowel?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

The correct plugs are IIRC 4mm. A very big difference for drilling into brick with perhaps an ordinary cordless drill.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Quite. Having been told how to do it easily, why try and re-invent the wheel? A box of plugs ain't expensive - and will keep for the next job.

[Rick Hughes]

BT used to supply engineers with a pin driver ... a meatal tube with a hole that fitted snugly over the pin, and at the end was a rod sticking out, that you hit with hammer. as the hole in shaft prevented pin from bending would driver into stone, concrete, brick etc.

Not sure what they were called - but I obtained one ... good bit of kit.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

This thread sort of confirms my opinion - I hate masonry nails of any sort. ;-)

[Bill Wright]

Discovered it about 1968! That's when we stopped using Hiatts lead headed nails.

Bill

[Bill Wright]

I think we've forgotten a very important point. Wear safety glasses. If the head comes off a masonry nail all the energy in the hammer is passed to that tiny head, which consequently travels very fast. It will penetrate your cornea and embed itself in your retina.

Oh, and never do this job naked.

Bill

[Bob Eager]

I've used a similar ting for starting panel pins...the latest incarnation has more like a pistol grip but one doesn't need a hammer.

[Rick Hughes]

I have a panel pin pin-push, at least 30 yrs old, still working fine. What I was describing is similar in function.

[Bob Eager]

Mine was about 20 years old when it finally gave up the ghost (I did use it a lot though). The new one has that 'pistol grip' handle with a weight in it, so, reversed, it makes a tiny hammer.

[polygonum]

Did you get a tee shirt?

[The Other Mike]

Followed by the removal of the nail from the cable clip?

[The Other Mike]

Easy, just buy (or build) a tool and cutter grinder and resize your 3mm drill into a 2mm one.