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Plasterboard screw wall plug
A plasterboard screw plug that allows a normal screw to be used to install fixings into plasterboard walls.
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Description
This is a plasterboard screw plug that allows a normal screw to be used to install fixings into plasterboard walls.
Drill a 5mm pilot hole into the marked position in the plasterboard, then use a Phillips head screwdriver to screw the plug into the hole. The plug cuts its own thread into the plaster.
Then screw into the plug with a metal fixing screw.
Materials and methods
Printed in PLA on a standard FFM 3D printer set at 0.2mm resolution, and without supports.
The thread needs a little tidy-up after printing with the side-cutters to remove any strays, because this is definitely pushing the limits of what can be printed without support material.
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Comments
christ6118 commented agoThank you very much.
We are Sunday, everything is closed in my area and I am falling short of ankle.
It's a great help.
Thank you very much.
FishGee commented agoWhat a great idea! Thank you for posting this. I use the commercial ones and like them. I'll give this a whirl. Maybe in PETG so they will flex a bit around the screw.
Paul Gross published this design ago