Socket box sinker for brick

[gpz900jim]

Hi, is there a socket box sinker on the market that will work on older (Tougher) type house bricks, or is it just a case of good old lump hammer, chisel, and lots of holes with a masonry drill ??

 

[Phil]

better off with a scutch or sds scutch.

 

[telectrix]

you just answerewd it. holes and chisel. forget the socket sinkers. they should have been sunk with the titanic. they are useless

 

[Phil]

there are a couple of members who will be more than happy to sell you theirs for a lot less than they paid for them if you fancy a go

 

[SirKit Breaker]

£30 plus postage for mine

 

[Phil]

^^ they are a good piece of kit arn`t they

 

[telectrix]

i have the best socket sinker going. it's called an apprentice. available at any job centre,

 

[gpz900jim]

hahaha nice one. thanks for the advice

 

[Phil]

you not buying one then?

 

[manda]

I take it that's one bit of kit not to bother with when I tool up then, lol. Glad I came across this. maybe you guys can do a thread listing tools to avoid?

 

[Phil]

no they are great sirkit has one for sale so i can`t say anything bad before its sold

 

[SirKit Breaker]

i have the best socket sinker going. it's called an apprentice. available at any job centre,

You can get a foreign one outside Wickes at the end of the Stanningley Bypass if you are in Leeds, and early enough.

 

[SirKit Breaker]

no they are great sirkit has one for sale so i can`t say anything bad before its sold

Best and cleanest piece of kit in the van. light use and kit is complete although it is only single socket size. To be honest it would be more use hanging on the christmas tree than is is for cutting bricks.

 

[manda]

Lol, great sales pitch SirKit, you'll be selling ice to eskimo's soon

 

[jeremy]

SDS scutch with an decently powerful drill for me in brick. Posted on here previously that I rewired a sandstone cottage a couple of years ago and the socket box sinker kit was invaluable as the sandstone absorbed the chisel impact but the rotary cutter in the armeg kit got rid of most of the cut out in no time

 

[nickblake]

Get a wall chaser instead you can cut the back boxes out with them and get a nice neat finish , comes in handy for chasing walls too

 

[ezzzekiel]

better off with a scutch or sds scutch.

didnt know such a beast existed im a big friend of the skutch so off now to find sds version

 

[Moorcut]

Have you tried using just the TCT sds round cutter and hard material chisel from Welcome to Moorcut Direct Ltd
The round cutter will cut the brick, but you have to square the corners off with the hard material chisel instead of the square box cutter. I dont think you will find a sds plus box sinker that will cut hard brick, these tools rely on the power of the sds machine and they are just not powerful enough.
A sds max version would be to powerful and knock the bricks out, we know we have tried.

 

[robswainelect]

I purchased one a while ago, never use it. Waste of money!

 

[Moorcut]

Rob, they are a waste of money if you dont use them. They are great on breeze and thermolite and soft concrete blocks, that is what they are designed to cut. It was just a suggestion to try, i've cut harder bricks using the method I descibed quite easy, give it a try mate.
Where did or who did you buy your set from?
Cant find you on our records, if there is any fault we will replace it no problem.

 

[eskimo39]

Lol, great sales pitch SirKit, you'll be selling ice to eskimo's soon

Funnily enough I bought a load from him last week.

 

[drywax]

1, Mark out box on wall
2, Drill multiple holes 10 - 12mm to desired depth of socket (a bit of tape on drill bit to gauge depth)
3, get a hard material chisel from screw fix attached to drill and start carving

Start to finish 3 minutes assuming you've already been to screwfix for your hard material chisel

 

[chiplard]

is that 3 minutes from picking up the pen to finishing clearing up?

Or maybe 3 minutes swearing at the little bits of brick that seem to find their way between the floor and the most sensitive point on your knee!!!!

 

[Tommy C]

Has anyone tried the quadcut brickmaster, is it any good?

 

[shanky887614]

Has anyone tried the quadcut brickmaster, is it any good?

its a 4 pointed chisel. it says on site for soft brick. so if you come across hard brick or heavy breeze block/equivalence then you got no chance.

if you cant chase out for a back box using just a hammer and bolster you should be ashamed of yourself.

using a hammer drill with chisel bit is the same, if the brick disintegrates then you wont get a good fixing with screw's and plugs no matter how you do it

 

[amlu]

for the amount of dust those things do you could cut it with a grinder with good diamond disc then make nice with a tile lifter/scutch chisel.

 

[7029 dave]

good ole hammer an bolster with plenty of guts behind it (16 stone+) lol:drunk:

 

[markc123]

Scutch chisel & Bolster chisel and a lump hammer and use a good old bit of brute force....whatever happened to the great british way of smashing everything with our hands ?

But yer seriouslly. get one if you don't ....cant remember make of mine, and cba to go to van. They're definitley handy although i can feel the 14th ed electricians turning in there graves...i am aware that there are some oldies on here that started on 13th, and they'll be turning in there nursing homes haha.

 

[Rockingit]

When I have young lads on with me I always make them do boxes by chisel. My argument being that you can learn the shortcuts in the fullness of time but you need to know how to do it if the toy is broken that day.

 

[longboat]

good ole hammer an bolster with plenty of guts behind it (16 stone+) lol:drunk:

-------'s to that.
Back in the day before i bought a bolster with a guard, it wasn't nice hitting your hand with a club hammer.
If it happened twice in one day it would make me cry.
Takes a bit of practice, but a 30mill sds bit works quick and neat. Just dont go crazy.