Box Sinker

BenStiller · 11 Sep 2005

Just been looking at these gizmos in screwfix, something tells me they look good but??
Anybody had experience of them?

http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro.jsp?id=91308&ts=71275

breezer · 11 Sep 2005

don't you have to have an sds drill with rotor stop for them?

Spark123 · 11 Sep 2005

breezer said:
don't you have to have an sds drill with rotor stop for them?

Yes, also the kit I got had the single and double b.box sinker in.
http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro.jsp?cId=101988&ts=71872&id=52747

BenStiller · 11 Sep 2005

Still same question, any good?

baldelectrician · 11 Sep 2005

got a super set with box sinkers etc,

I find box sinker has limited uses as they can only be used on breize block etc,

if you use the rotary hard material cutter it is good.

I have had 3 chisels break in the past year - I am using grease in sds drill and they still fail

Excellent for wraggling, use a wall chaser followed by chisel- floor to ceiling in less than 15 mins including sweeping up!!

http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro.jsp?cId=101988&ts=71924&id=16724
http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro.jsp?cId=101988&ts=71924&id=72224

BenStiller · 11 Sep 2005

Cheers Baldy, just as i suspected, gonna stick with good old chasing

andy · 11 Sep 2005

i have 1 of those box sinkers. has its good an bad points. in soft brick they save time, but in harder brick (as in most walls) the circle cutter will work, but the square wont, so you end up usin a chasing bit after the circle cutter. can still save you time doing it that way tho

sparkybird · 12 Sep 2005

The other problem with these is that although in principle they end up giving you two fixing holes - in practice the holes are too big and I ended up having to drill more holes in the wall and the back box - durr! Luckily I only borrowed one, rather than forking out to buy...
SB

andy · 12 Sep 2005

sparkybird said:
The other problem with these is that although in principle they end up giving you two fixing holes - in practice the holes are too big and I ended up having to drill more holes in the wall and the back box - durr! Luckily I only borrowed one, rather than forking out to buy...
SB

thats also the other problem

sparkybird · 12 Sep 2005

Oi, that's what I said, andrew 2022!
SB

andy · 12 Sep 2005

sparkybird said:
Oi, that's what I said, andrew 2022!
SB

i kno. i forgot to say that in my first post

ban-all-sheds · 12 Sep 2005

andrew2022 said:
sparkybird said:

The other problem with these is that although in principle they end up giving you two fixing holes - in practice the holes are too big and I ended up having to drill more holes in the wall and the back box - durr! Luckily I only borrowed one, rather than forking out to buy...
SB

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thats also the other problem

What fixing holes?

andy · 12 Sep 2005

ban-all-sheds said:
andrew2022 said:

sparkybird said:

The other problem with these is that although in principle they end up giving you two fixing holes - in practice the holes are too big and I ended up having to drill more holes in the wall and the back box - durr! Luckily I only borrowed one, rather than forking out to buy...
SB

Click to expand...

thats also the other problem

Click to expand...

What fixing holes?

ive found before that the pilot hole cannot be used as a fixing hole. it often ends up slighty larger than the 6mm drill its made with so red plugs are no good and often a brown plug is too slack

ban-all-sheds · 12 Sep 2005

andrew2022 said:
the pilot hole cannot be used as a fixing hole

sparkybird said:
they end up giving you two fixing holes

Not trying to poke fun at anyone - I'm just confused...

Spark123 · 13 Sep 2005

1st step for a single box is to drill a 6mm pilot hole at the centre of the desired box.
Drill out to desired depth using the circular cutter (using the pilot hole to guide it).
Use square cutter (using the pilot hole again).

Using the pilot hole for guidance with an SDS drill inevitably widens it and makes it too big for red/brown plugs.

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