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Quite often I find the (masonary) cable clips will not attach well to the mortar or brick, they either bend or if they do go in they are loose.

If this happens I remove the pin from the clip and put a 6 gauge screw through it instead and use a rawl plug, this obviously works well but is time consuming. Just wondered what everyone else does?
 
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Yes.
I will try not to use them as it takes more time, but I have a 5mm masonry bit in my tool belt for just this use, drilling a shallow 5mm hole is not too slow and the clips are then easy to fix in place and the clip covers the pin plug.
If you are really stuck then a 4mm hole and half a pin plug can do the same job (or even the hole you have just made trying to get the clip in place:shame:).
If the clips will just not stay in then, for me, this is the answer.

There may be other answers, obviously for brick clipping into the brick mortar boundary is the easiest, but it does need reasonable mortar and not the "beautifully" raked out joints. But for concrete what else is there?
 
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Richard Burns said:
Yes.
I will try not to use them as it takes more time, but I have a 5mm masonry bit in my tool belt for just this use, drilling a shallow 5mm hole is not too slow and the clips are then easy to fix in place and the clip covers the pin plug.
If you are really stuck then a 4mm hole and half a pin plug can do the same job (or even the hole you have just made trying to get the clip in place:shame:).
If the clips will just not stay in then, for me, this is the answer.

There may be other answers, obviously for brick clipping into the brick mortar boundary is the easiest, but it does need reasonable mortar and not the "beautifully" raked out joints. But for concrete what else is there?
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Thanks as usual.

I think I will give them a go as even though you still have to drill a hole it would be quicker than putting a screw into the clip and then screwing in.
 
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