Anyone know where i can get one of these drill guides for making the
correctly aligned holes for fitting socket back boxes?

TIA.

"RmS" wrote in message
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Anyone know where i can get one of these drill guides for making the
correctly aligned holes for fitting socket back boxes?

TIA.



Screwfix

RmS wrote:
Anyone know where i can get one of these drill guides for making the
correctly aligned holes for fitting socket back boxes?

TIA.


If you're doing more than a couple it's worth getting an SDS socket
sinker - very fast and neat.

Dave

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RmS wrote:
Anyone know where i can get one of these drill guides for making the
correctly aligned holes for fitting socket back boxes?

TIA.
If you're doing more than a couple it's worth getting an SDS socket
sinker - very fast and neat.

Dave

I've often looked at those sinkers and wondered if they work in the old
"over-fired" type of common bricks as often found in pre-war houses in the
internal leaf.

Do they?

Pilgarlick

"RmS" wrote in message
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Anyone know where i can get one of these drill guides for making the
correctly aligned holes for fitting socket back boxes?

Wickes, B&Q Warehouse.

"Pilgarlick" wrote in message
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"Dave" wrote in message
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RmS wrote:
Anyone know where i can get one of these drill guides for making the
correctly aligned holes for fitting socket back boxes?

TIA.
If you're doing more than a couple it's worth getting an SDS socket
sinker - very fast and neat.

Dave

I've often looked at those sinkers and wondered if they work in the old
"over-fired" type of common bricks as often found in pre-war houses in the
internal leaf.

Do they?

Not IMHO. They leave a mess with nothing left to fasten the backbox to the
wall with.

Adam

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RmS wrote:
Anyone know where i can get one of these drill guides for making the
correctly aligned holes for fitting socket back boxes?

Do you mean a pencil? ;-)

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Thanks Y'all.
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"RmS" wrote in message
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Anyone know where i can get one of these drill guides for making the
correctly aligned holes for fitting socket back boxes?

Wickes, B&Q Warehouse.

"Pilgarlick" wrote in message
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"Dave" wrote in message
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RmS wrote:
Anyone know where i can get one of these drill guides for making the
correctly aligned holes for fitting socket back boxes?

TIA.
If you're doing more than a couple it's worth getting an SDS socket
sinker - very fast and neat.

Dave

I've often looked at those sinkers and wondered if they work in the old
"over-fired" type of common bricks as often found in pre-war houses in the
internal leaf.

Do they?

Yes! They 'do':
incredible amount of dust though

- I've started to do the following;-
offer up back box to wall and pencil around it:
define the corners with 5mm bit- to appropriate depth;
drill some more holes in the interior of the pencilled
area - mainly to define the depth required;
Use an wide SDS chisel to 'connect up the dots of the corners;
excavate the interior area with a SDS chisel(s)
and a SDS channel chopper / behind skirting boards tool(s).

Obviously the amount of material removed is the same; but
as it comes out in bigger lumps it subjectively seems 'less'.

One finishes up with a nice smooth right angled recess
ready for the back-box. IF you use the box-sinker; you'll
still need to chase the channel to accommodate the cable(s).
So this isn't really using many more 'bits' - The wide
chisels are a luxury I treated myself to.
I sort of 'see' myself - offering up the back-box and
fingering the recess and saying; "I'll just take another
mil of that bit there !" Oh, why couldn't one get SDS drills,
bits and chisels in days of yore?

My house was built in 1935 seemingly using the hardest
materials available to the builder !


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Brian

Pilgarlick wrote:
"Dave" wrote in message
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RmS wrote:

Anyone know where i can get one of these drill guides for making the
correctly aligned holes for fitting socket back boxes?

TIA.

If you're doing more than a couple it's worth getting an SDS socket
sinker - very fast and neat.

Dave


I've often looked at those sinkers and wondered if they work in the old
"over-fired" type of common bricks as often found in pre-war houses in the
internal leaf.

Do they?

Pilgarlick



I've only used mine in modern houses and it's the dog's wotsits, on hard
bricks I guess it's back to stitch drilling and an SDS chisel - it might
be possible to use the sinker to get a flat bottom.

Dave

Dave wrote:

I've only used mine in modern houses and it's the dog's wotsits, on
hard bricks I guess it's back to stitch drilling and an SDS chisel - it
might be possible to use the sinker to get a flat bottom.

The SDS chisels with 4-5 TCT teeth are pretty good for this. They tend
to nibble the brick away with a reasonable amount of control, rather
than splitting the brick like a wedge chisel often does.


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Ian White