Patress instead of knock out?

[rocker]

Duuuudes. Bit of a stupid question but something that has never occured to me before. Can you use plastic patresses instead of metal knock-out boxes when putting sockets flush with the wall (i.e. chased into the wall)?? Is there any reason why you shouldn't?

 

[lucus]

im sure you could if you really wanted to but why would you surely its more effort.

 

[Des 56]

I believe Rocker is thinking more about replacing the standard metal with plastic rather than sinking a surface mounted box ( with all the problems that would make)
and by doing so posing a good question

They were used at one time,probably something to do with beter mechanical strength oreven economics
Personally I dont really know why not

 

[super_stuey]

"Is there any reason why you shouldn't"

Yes. They're BIGGER!!! more chasing, more work!

 

[rocker]

Because, due to an administrative error, I have plastic patressess coming out of my ears!!!!!

 

[Des 56]

I get the drift now

Yes there is a good reason not to sink them
There are people on E Bay who might buy them off you

 

[bugsy]

RRRRRRRRRRRRRocker there either surface or flush, I've never tried to chop in surface box , what are u like

 

[Deleted member 9648]

Trouble is a surface box is the same size as the accessory,flushed in it'll look a pigs ear.

 

[SirKit Breaker]

Trouble is a surface box is the same size as the accessory,flushed in it'll look a pigs ear.

Some are slightly bigger depending whos accessories youve got. You havent got 47mm ones have you sorry for laughing but i can imagine sinking 10 or 20 of those into engineer brick, that would be a real whizz...........

 

[pennywise]

You would also have to get them perfectly level as they don't have an adjustable lug plus the boxes would deform if the back of the chase wasn't completely flat, which would cause misalignment of the lugs and give you leveling problems as well. I've only seen it done once on a basement flat that had been tanked looked ruff as anything.

 

[rocker]

I think we're going with a resounding 'no' on this one.

Anyone wanna buy any patresses?

 

[cornburn]

Why not fit some and see? Sounds like it'd be a ballache to me though! Why not take them back? Or did they fall off the back of somethin?

 

[rocker]

Nah, I wanted 50, I ended up with 508. They won't have them back because they were on special.

I'm sure I'll use them.... evetually.

 

[Phil]

good luck with the chopping out my hands hurt enough with the metal ones. especially down in cass vegas where the brick are hard as nails.

 

[pennywise]

Nah, I wanted 50, I ended up with 508. They won't have them back because they were on special.

I'm sure I'll use them.... evetually.

Which wholesaler did you get them from, almost as bad a when I ordered some clips from my local, I only wanted a couple of boxes sent out to site, they turned up with 20000 2.5 clips