how does this undo?

I bet this is just like some pegs I have from Ikea. The shiny metal part is actually in two parts that screw together. You just can't see the join in the photo.

So hold the part nearest the wall and twist the part furthest from the wall anticlockwise. You may need grips.

When it's in two parts, the screw and plug in the wall will be obvious.

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GB
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Two are for holding up a shelf, one is used to hang a flannel. The hole through the end is for fixing a glass shelf to these items.

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Paul Herber

Have you worked out how to undo them yet?

Consensus view seems to be that there is more than likely a concealed cap that will either screw off or can be levered off (if you can see a hairline ?crack?). Once the cap is off there will be a screw inside.

A better close-up photo would help. It would be very unusual to design something that could only be removed destructively.

Tim

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Tim+

Just choose Undo on the edit menu.

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Tim Streater

and the answer was???

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nothanks

I suspect the solution was: a) Unscrew the outside to reveal the fixing screw that's inside. b) Rip it out of the wall because it wouldn't unscrew.

3) Leave the bloody thing there.
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Rob Morley

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Rip it out then see how you could have unscrewed it.

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bert

I managed to get one of them out as it was a bit loose (and was the reason the shelf being supported was a moving slightly). The screw was going through tile and plasterboard but all that was holding the screw in was some loose filler. No rawlplug, nothing. However, the screw is loose within the fitting, it just rotates. I have no idea. Shrug. I have squirted plenty of silicone sealer in suitable places and the fitting is now staying in place, at least, adequate to hold the light-weight shelf in place with its load of a few shampoo bottles. Totally unsatisfactory from my POV by SWMBO is happy (-ish).

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Paul Herber

Then the fitting must either have a removable 'lid' or a screwed joint half way along so you can get at the fixing screw. Unless the screw was fixed internall and now isn't, which seems hard to achieve in manufacture. I'd have tried very hard to unscrew it or pry a lid off while it was off the wall. But, of course, might well have given up and done what you did.

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Roger Hayter

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