Loose plug socket cover - threadlock?

[TissoT]

Fancy spending 20 mins on this one?
I was going to replace it with a double, but realised the butchering I would need to enact to get that box off might take the entire wall 🙄

I’d love to meet the YTS trainee who installed it originally: shake him warmly by the throat 🤣
Gave up and put a single back with a USB in…
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Why do think that's a big Job ... Seen a lot worse
Thats the work of DIY expert

 

[mikeIow]

Why do think that's a big Job ... Seen a lot worse
Thats the work of DIY expert

Nope: that is the work of the original house builder, circa 1990 🤣
(& still doesn’t look easy to me to fix….nail punch and drill sounds most likely to work, but time wasn’t on my side 🤷‍♂️)

There were a few shonky things…..once, many years ago, our then 2yr old son tripped, banged his head on a multi-panel door. Pointed at the crack on the glass to show us where he banged his head, & cut his finger. I took the broken pane to a glazier, who asked if it was outside as it was ‘horticultural glass’, not rated for internal use.

We traced the current owners of the original building company - it was 9yrs old, companies taken over twice. Mildly threatened them with NHBC stuff, & they came round within 1 week to replace 40 panes in two sets of double doors.
Probably should have told them to fix everyone’s on the street!

This year I ripped out the last original wardrobe, to find they had obviously put the light switch in the wrong place: big hole where the original went!


(the hole behind was inside a blanked section of the wardrobe!)

 

[fossyant]

Has OP fixed the socket yet ?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Has OP fixed the socket yet ?

They’ve lost power and can’t reply…

 

[bikingdad90]

I’d be tempted to use some of that tape that plumbers use and then screw it back in. Seems to work on most things!

 

[MrGrumpy]

I have a double socket where the threads must be a bit chuffed on the metal "Box in the wall" as you can screw the screw in but every now and again it slips (I have tried a new screw, its the thread in the box that is chuffed). do you reckon a dab of threadlock on the screw will help? or does anyone have a neat solutions short of changing the wall box, which is a bit of a nuclear option.

Bodge job don’t do it ! Get it replaced, easy enough but switch power off !! If not very sure at all get a sparky in !

 

[richardfm]

I’d be tempted to use some of that tape that plumbers use and then screw it back in. Seems to work on most things!

PTFE... plastic tape for everything

 

[T4tomo]

I’d be tempted to use some of that tape that plumbers use and then screw it back in. Seems to work on most things!

I guess similar idea to using a bit of wire outer, except the outer will help locate. I guess if start PTFE up the screw shaft a bit it should all work fine and not hinder screw initially engaging the hole in the tab

 

[T4tomo]

It wasn't an urgent job, all wedge / bodges failed so sorted with two of these.
Top job.

 

[cyberknight]

just got the same issue that has appeared , dunno how its happened as its been ok for i dunno at least 10 years

 

[T4tomo]

just got the same issue that has appeared , dunno how its happened as its been ok for i dunno at least 10 years

Old age?🤣
https://www.backboxrepairclip.co.uk/
Also on sold by them on eBay. You need to do a bit of flattening or removal of existing tabs, but pliers, a hammer and big screwdriver sorted that out easily.

 

[mikeIow]

They’ve lost power and can’t reply…

Ahhhh, sorry: I popped it back and left it…..too much pain to sort that badgers mess out at the time, & now it is as it was, we’ve forgotten all about it 🤪