Metal backbox connectors for a row of single sockets

Two male bushes and a coupler are the usual way, if you don't want to adjust the distance.

Owain

But who makes them ?. I'm sure it was possible to buy such an arrangement that allowed single back boxes to be fitted in a line with the correct spacing just like a dual/single combined backbox allows. I.e. You could make a four-in-line row of sockets without any gaps between them.

I used them and sorry to disappoint but you can only link two boxes together. They work by the small bent piece fitting into the hole pressed out to make the fixed lug on a back box and cannot be used on the movable lug side.

Richard

Ok, thanks. What you show is the arrangement I intend, but a group of immediately adjacent single sockets that are nicely inline.

I need to choose backboxes carefully then

Just one other gotcha they work with white plastic front plates which are a standard size but if using metal front plates especially low profile types they may not work, you would have to check the various manufacturers data sheets as they all vary in size. The Volex ones you see are OK.

Richard

Yes, I have seen that warning on the ?tlc site that sells them.

PS I would have run a bead of magnolia decorators caulk vertically down the metal spacer to match the surrounding wall colour.

PPS Interesting egg stand. How far up does it go :-)

I'm sure I have seen plastic spacers that look like conduit and connect the round holes, but my googling skills aren't working.

The wall colour is just temporary as can be seen by not so smooth plasterwork. Eventually that section will be covered with a splashback.

The egg stand is 53cm tall and holds a dozen eggs in a spiral. I would have to go back through SWAMBOs Amazon purchases (and there have a lot through the pandemic) to get the link if you are interested.

I am not aware of plastic spacers that would give you the necessary spacing between boxes which if I recall correctly would be in the region of 14mm. However, you could use these;

Richard

If threaded conduit is taken into a box then the inside should be terminated in a female bush and not a locknut

Then I shall do it for you Sir

They ought to make it clearer that's £3.75 for ten.

Thanks. That's the one. :)

I tried googling for backbox spacers, but it produced only the 1G and 2G ones that go on the face of the box to make it deeper.

Well I found it by googling for "back box connector spacer" but it took me a while to find the correct combination of words get there for exactly the same reason.

Never used them, never seen them before.

But they look bloody useful.

Have a good Christmas fella

And do you remember the trouble I had in Leicester with the conduit couplers and 35mm deep back boxes?

Dual back boxes have been around for years

When I moved into this house I made friends with the bloke that lived across the road. Retired and a nice bloke with time to spare.

He made me a load of 13mm balsa wood spacers that I used to distance the back boxes.

:-). I think I will use a length of 2x1 and drill holes exactly 1 inch apart where there are adjacent boxes and attach the four metal boxes in a nice straight line, then fit all four in one go.