Anyone out there ever seen a toogle bolt eye for suspended ceiling wire ….like an eyelag, but fastening like a toogle bolt????
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Ok, so you want a molly bolt type anchor ... two wings that are spring loaded and pop open once they are inside the wall? But instead of a screw, you want an eye bolt? No problem. Guy some eye bolts and some mollys with the same threads, and swap the eye bolt in place of the screw.
I'm sorry, I thought you wanted it done the right way.
sure, but I need them in bulk.......
> Ok, so you want a molly bolt type anchor ... two wings that are spring
> loaded and pop open once they are inside the wall? Actually, you're describing a toggle bolt. Molly is a brand name for a metal anchor that mushrooms out behind the wall when you tighten the screw.
don't have my latsest copy of "Walls and Ceilings" Magazine handy ... but there's always lots adds for such animals ...
check a commercial drywall supplier .... and/or .. of course ... a commercial accoustical ceiling dealer .... places that sell lotsa steel stud too ... they'd know where to find them.
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry in Carpentry
Pgh, PA
There must be something solid up there to attach to. I wouldn't attach just to sheetrock or old plaster. A couple of years ago, a ceiling collapsed in an art gallery due to poor and too few hangers. No one was hurt but some expensive art was damaged and the lawyers were called in.
Beat it to fit / Paint it to match
Too many years ago to count, when I was in college, the ceiling in the upstairs drafting room (practically an attic, and hot as holy heck) collapsed. About a dozen students were in the room at the time, but they all managed to duck under the drafting desks and escaped with only minor scratches. Made a really loud noise, though -- I was two floors down and it sounded like someone had dropped a filing cabinet down the stairwell.Anyway, when they inspected this they found that furring had been nailed to the original plaster and lath, and acoustic tile nailed over that. Then eye bolts were screwed into the furring and and a suspended ceiling attached, complete with new lighting fixtures.Of course, the plaster decided to separate from the lath, and the whole thing came down.The next week maintenance guys chopped holes in the identical ceiling in the library on the other wing of the building and wired the furring in place, until they could tear out the whole thing and do it right.
it's a commercial fire rated assembly with metal channel wired to metal bar joists, wire lath & plaster wired to the channels...the surprising part is that it dates from the early 70's....I would have thought by then 5/8 fire rated gyp would have been used...
Call Western Mass Acoustics, Inc. in Palmer, MA and see if they will ship. As I remember, the guy there had patented a spring loaded togglebolt with a washer assembly. Worked very well on old diamond lath ceilings.
Western Mass Accoustics, 1587 Ware Street, Palmer, MA 01069 413.283.8337