FWIW you can add a nut to plastice surface box, I did it once, but its not generally worth doing
NT
FWIW you can add a nut to plastice surface box, I did it once, but its not generally worth doing
NT
/FWIW you can add a nut to plastice surface box, I did it once, but its not generally worth doing
NT /q
Oh? How did you do that go then?
Jim K
You snipped the bit where I gave what many seem to think it is. Was it too hard for you to read?
Didn't expect you to actually answer the question, though.
True - since they're generally easily changed. Unlike a flush box set into plaster.
There is no distinction in the use of patress between surface and flush mounting boxes.
To me, neither is a pattress. That is reserved for the shallow mounting plate for fully surface mounted accessories.
That's because it's not a universally accepted term. Depends on the part of the country.
More usually called a frame round here. If you can find a counter person who knows what you mean - as not all makers sells them.
Any more for any more? ;-)
A plastic back box is a patress box in Yorkshire:-)
Although I did hear the term wall boxes used the other day meaning metal flush boxes - although that was in Lincolnshire.
You'll get a blank look if you talk about pattress in most wholesalers in London. More than usual, that is.
Would I be safe in Wickes:-)?
You can sometimes find a self-tapper which will fit a damaged thread and be almost indistinguishable.
And if you can't find one that matches, use a self tapper in both sides.
In my experience flush boxes refer to metal boxes sunk into the plaster and surface boxes being plastic or metal boxes as the name implies fixed to th e wall surface. The term patttress is used to describe a backless box that is used as a spacer to enable a front plate that has deep projections on it s back to be secured to a shallow flush box.
Richard
/You snipped the bit where I gave what many seem to think it is. Was it too hard for you to read?
Didn't expect you to actually answer the question, though. /q
Oh dear....
You suggested supergluing a but oin the back of a 'lug'
Pattresses in general parlance do not have lugs, back boxes do.....
What was the question you imagined I ignored?
Much love
Jim K
No, I suggested glueing a nut to the back of the lug.
Tell the OP he's using the wrong name then. I don't care.
The one you've just answered.
Shudder.
/Tell the OP he's using the wrong name then. I don't care./q
You also don't know he's using the wrong name... Its preferable for you to presume he is wrong and not you
Makes one wonder why you bother in the first place.
Jim K
Nope. Not according to the dictionary. Or wiki.
For a wider view see the pictures at
The wooden ones are what I call "pattresses". Most of the others aren't pattresses, they're "back boxes", both surface and flush.
I think the usage is regional. I learned the word in Manchester. The Wikipedia entry is too narrow in its scope, as demonstrated by the photos.
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