Heavier Duty Hollow Wall Anchors

This wall anchor with a 6mm diameter fixing screw is the ideal size and type of hollow wall fixing when fitting most of our floating shelves, brackets, wall stripping or floating shelf brackets where the brackets will be fitted into gyprock sheeting (drywall) in a cavity wall.(use 4-5 anchors per floating shelf) This heavy duty anchor needs to be crimped behind the wall before it is used to support a load. Ideal for the German made floating shelves for fixing the 5PB1 brackets to gyprock cavity walls. This is done by tightening the screw provided with the wall anchor which then collapses and spreads ("sets") behind the gyprock sheet as featured here. ( click here, A time saving special crimping tool is available if multiple anchors are being fitted ) Drill a 8-9 mm diameter hole into the gyprock sheet, remove the screw from the anchor body, and tap the fixing in with a hammer. Fixing must be a good secure tight fit so the fixing body does not spin when tightening the screw. Insert the screw and tighten using a hand held screwdriver (not a power-driver) to collapse (set, crimp) the body of the fixing behind the gyprock sheet. When fully tightened (it can take at least 30 seconds to fully tighten the fixing in the gyprock sheet) the screw is then removed and the shelf bracket, is then attached with the screw into the crimped fixing(s). Note when using these fixings, weight capacity of the shelf or bracket is limited to the actual strength of the gyprock or drywall sheet . Using multiple fixings will increase the weight capacity of the shelf or shelf brackets. See you tube video showing fitting hollow wall anchors here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNFv65-QTPI