victorismyhero
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well got my gun cabinet installed, what a ball ache...yo8u see, we dont have internal walls, we have infernal walls. That is to say breeze (the nasty dark grey hollow crumbly stuff) and I didnt fancy drilling the concrete floor slab either, due to potential issues with puncturing the damp proof membrane AND i wanted my gun cabinet upright. So how to fasten securely, I mean really securely?
well I could in one place access both sides of one of these walls inside the building, AND one side was in my study
k: SO...off to my local small engineering workshop and back with a piece of 3mm mild steel plate the same size as the back of the cabinet and drilled with 6 holes to match the bolt holes in the cabinet.
took plaster off wall both sides down to the breeze marked the hole positions and began to drill :mole: ....OH DEAR...it is at this point (hopefully) that you realise that in order for this cunning plan to work, ALL 6 holes must be exactly in the right place AND PERFECTLY perpendicular to the wall in two dimensions, or you are going to be in a world of pain when they dont match on both sides of the wall... :banghead:
Off to my work shop and 3 hrs later emerge triumphant with a "bodgit and scarper" perpendicular wall drilling jig and after a while six perfect holes. :biggrin:
Then used 12mm threaded bar through plate wall and cabinet, secured with shear head security nuts (nasty little blighters them...now rechristened em to "knuckle munchers") both sides (but leave the heads ON inside the cabinet (YOU may want to remove it). The plate was then given two coats of good quality metal primer and allowed to dry over night. It was then given 2 coats of diluted PVA adhesive (to help bond plaster)
when this was dry a layer of undercoat plaster with a feww "splodges" of pva adhesive added was applied and left to "go off" (takes forever over the steel plate because there is nothing behind to absorb water) once dry a layer of skim finnished the job neatly (even Mrs Victor was moved to comment ooooo ....smooooth). Now got to let this totally dry out and a bonus for Mrs Victor as I will repaint the entire hallway, and there will be no sign of this work .
The cabinet sits well down the length of the wall (not on a vulnerable end section) and to get the cabinet loose from here someone would have to basically demolish the wall :fie:
well I could in one place access both sides of one of these walls inside the building, AND one side was in my study
k: SO...off to my local small engineering workshop and back with a piece of 3mm mild steel plate the same size as the back of the cabinet and drilled with 6 holes to match the bolt holes in the cabinet.took plaster off wall both sides down to the breeze marked the hole positions and began to drill :mole: ....OH DEAR...it is at this point (hopefully) that you realise that in order for this cunning plan to work, ALL 6 holes must be exactly in the right place AND PERFECTLY perpendicular to the wall in two dimensions, or you are going to be in a world of pain when they dont match on both sides of the wall... :banghead:
Off to my work shop and 3 hrs later emerge triumphant with a "bodgit and scarper" perpendicular wall drilling jig and after a while six perfect holes. :biggrin:
Then used 12mm threaded bar through plate wall and cabinet, secured with shear head security nuts (nasty little blighters them...now rechristened em to "knuckle munchers") both sides (but leave the heads ON inside the cabinet (YOU may want to remove it). The plate was then given two coats of good quality metal primer and allowed to dry over night. It was then given 2 coats of diluted PVA adhesive (to help bond plaster)
when this was dry a layer of undercoat plaster with a feww "splodges" of pva adhesive added was applied and left to "go off" (takes forever over the steel plate because there is nothing behind to absorb water) once dry a layer of skim finnished the job neatly (even Mrs Victor was moved to comment ooooo ....smooooth). Now got to let this totally dry out and a bonus for Mrs Victor as I will repaint the entire hallway, and there will be no sign of this work .
The cabinet sits well down the length of the wall (not on a vulnerable end section) and to get the cabinet loose from here someone would have to basically demolish the wall :fie:
