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".
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
Nah. You've just reverted to good old plastic Rawlplugs!
SteveW
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
I just ordered one of these, as mentioned by Steve Firth:
Bert
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
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.
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