Repair of apartments are usually not restricted to pure cosmetics. Frequently time some alterations, additional equipment: build utility cabinets, replacement of cornices, hanging shelves, mirrors, hangers. And this inevitably confronts us with the eternal problem: how it is fastened to the walls? Everyone has experienced domogala my favorite techniques: someone drilling holes with a drill with pobeditovym a drill, others prefer carbide punch and hammer. Well, if you need to attach something to a thin wall – for example, the current incabin boxes or cupboards? Industry in this case offers nothing to the house master. For ordinary walls, you often need something more reliable than sagaydaka over time, the wooden plug or plastic plug.
Here are a few options homemade metal dowels “with a twinkle” – like concrete walls and all kinds of hollow panels and panel dividers.
In figure 1 the device of tubular dowels for thicker walls. Take a copper pipe, sawed it in half. One of the halves grind the end of the wedge, the other make a counter-groove a triangular file and just sawed with a hacksaw. It remains to wear them on a long screw, bind duct tape and insert into the hole. The rotation of the nut, we’ll slide the one half to another so that they got jammed by the.