Re: Cliping cable to external (brick) walls.

[Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

There were a couple of people who suggested hammering the nail into the
joint between the brick & the mortar that worked well. I now have 2 X10
controlled external lights.

Keiths additional "softly softly catchy monkey" adive helped a
great deal
to. Short quick taps are better then hard whacks with the hammer.

"Just give it a little tappy, tap tap taparoo."

On 2000.12.05 23:50:43 +0000 Robert Crawshaw wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robert Crawshaw <rcrawshaw@xxxxxxx>
> To: UK HA mailing list <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 11:42 PM
>
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Cliping cable to external (brick) walls.>
> > > As I told Graham (much to his amusement) I bashed my finger
with a
> > > hammer today, while trying to clip some cable to the wall in
the
> garage.
> > > The nails that come with the clips keep breaking or bending,
and if
> they
> > > don't the brick chips away and the thing just falls out.
Luckiliy
> it's
> > just
> > > in the garage at the moment, so that's not too bad.
> > >
> > > Are there special clips for this, or should any do? I just
thaught
> I'd
> ask
> > > before I went and mangled my hand furyher.
> >
>
>  Lo Stu
>
>  Long winded way round your problem but it works very well
>
>  Drill a hole with masonary bit and force a wooden dowel into the hole
> then
>  nail your clip to the dowel
>
>  Some time ago i did see a similar thing in plastic,   plastic dowel
with
> a
>  small pilot hole in it for the nail, but i havent seen any for sale
> anywhere
>
>
>  HTH
>
>  cya
>
>
>  Robert Crawshaw                 http://www.golcar.demon.co.uk
>  Member of HAUG (Huddersfield Amiga User Group)
>
>  The release of Windows 2000 has been put back to the first quarter of
> 1901
>
>  we work for a company that has global reach yet can't scratch it's
own
> arse
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