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Default Movable screw posts on light switch / mains socket backing boxes

On 14/06/2019 14:16, wrote:
On Thursday, 13 June 2019 19:43:00 UTC+1, ARW wrote:

Well there are these

https://backboxsaver.com/

Never used them.


as expected, silly price

However for a pro bodge job on a back box with a knackered lug that will
not rethread you simply strip out the cores of some .75mm flex and wrap
them through the hole several times before refitting the socket.


Neater than using a woodscrew.


And then there is the other bodge when when lug is missing.

5.5mm hole though the back box where the eye of the lug was, stick in a
red rawl plug and use a long 3.5 screw into the red plug.


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Adam