Handy Gun for Wall Cable Clip Nails

johnwest288

Is there a hand operated gun available to automatically hit these nails into the wall? Tried hammering them in but my god they are a PAIN. Nothing fancy just for DIY. Something like a pop rivet gun?

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nacimroc

I worked with a friend of mine doing satelitte systems and running cables in all day. These drove me demented, especially on old houses. I searched for one but had no luck.

aujopimur

Drill and 0 plugs are the way I know of.

leeomurchu

There's no easy way unfortunately. If you clip up the run of cable at the furthest point and work towards it will make it a bit neater. as mentioned above you can drill holes and fit yellow plugs but that creates more work. Use plastic conduit if you don't fancy using the clips a lot neater looking aswell.

deandean

They are meant to be masonry nails but if I get 1 in 6 in straight into a hard conc wall I am doing well. Horrid yokes. Nails bend all over the place. I don't have an alternative thogh.

johnwest288

aujopimur wrote: »

Drill and 0 plugs are the way I know of.

whats an o plug mate?

aujopimur

johnwest288 wrote: »

whats an o plug mate?

Thorsmann and maybe others make these, there're plastic wall plug with a little hole that's just the right size for a clip nail.

leeomurchu

aujopimur wrote: »

Thorsmann and maybe others make these, there're plastic wall plug with a little hole that's just the right size for a clip nail.

They're yellow plugs by thorsman, never heard of an 0 plug

aujopimur

leeomurchu wrote: »

They're yellow plugs by thorsman, never heard of an 0 plug

The yellow plugs are for screws, the nail clip plugs are white.

leeomurchu

aujopimur wrote: »

The yellow plugs are for screws, the nail clip plugs are white.

Used the wrong plugs so :eek:but they seemed grand to me:D, never seen the white plugs before.

So what's a 0 plug?

paddy147

leeomurchu wrote: »

They're yellow plugs by thorsman

Fantastic little plug (screws) indeed.:)

Used to install/hold up heavy wooden blinds to window reveals and on walls.

hiDEhi

leeomurchu wrote: »

Used the wrong plugs so :eek:but they seemed grand to me:D, never seen the white plugs before.

So what's a 0 plug?

The thorsman clip plugs are white but they used to be yellow, not the same as the short 5.5mm yellow ones they have now but a different shade of yellow. They are good for clipping into difficult concrete or stonework but painfully slow. I've never seen or heard of a nailer for cable clips though.

leeomurchu

hiDEhi wrote: »

The thorsman clip plugs are white but they used to be yellow, not the same as the short 5.5mm yellow ones they have now but a different shade of yellow. They are good for clipping into difficult concrete or stonework but painfully slow. I've never seen or heard of a nailer for cable clips though.

Would've been about 12 years ago I last used them so might have been the right ones after all

Painfully slow though as you say, never again.

aujopimur

Another way to overcome the nailclip problem is to replace the nails with better quality masonary nails.

nacimroc

Concrete nail gun HERE You could use the one from the bottom right

red sean

The white TP0 plugs are shown here on top of third page:
http://www.thorsman.de/Kataloge/ThorsmanDuebel2012.pdf

Most hardware/electrical wholesalers stock them.