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.

Documents

Plaster Screw 25mm
STL – 450 kb
Version 10 - Mar 15, 2018
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Version 10 - March 15, 2018 07:09
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Plaster Screw Production
SKP – 210 kb
Version 1 - Mar 15, 2018
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Comments

MozeSauer added this to the hhu collection 5 months ago

chemza added this to the To print collection 5 months ago

christ6118 commented over 4 years ago

Thank 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.

gver added this to the zanimivo collection almost 5 years ago

FishGee commented almost 5 years ago

What 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 almost 5 years ago

Thanks for downloading!