What do you call these...
garyo - 16/1/14 at 09:26 PM
The glass shelves in my shower are attached to the glass walls using plastic clamps that are then screwed in to holes in the glass.
The plastic fittings have cracked over the years. Initially I replaced the clamp parts with metal pieces (as shown in the first photo) but I'm
now finding that the plastic plugs that sit in the opposite side of the glass shower walls are also failing. I've tried to photo one of these -
see second photo.
So what do you call these? They're a dome, with an 8mm diameter plug that's been drilled and tapped. This slots in to the 8mm hole in the
5mm thick glass wall, and allows the clamp part to be screwed in.
The shower manufacturer has been no help, and won't sell parts separately - they're all imported etc.
I could try to turn down a stainless nut, then weld a big washer on the back, but it's all a bit naff!
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Thanks!
Gary
myke pocock - 16/1/14 at 09:57 PM
Not sure what they are called but try a shop fittings supplier. They look a little like clips used to hold glass shelves in shop fittings in place to
me.
[Edited on 16/1/14 by myke pocock]
r1_pete - 16/1/14 at 11:59 PM
Try googling 'glass shelf fittings' or 'invisible glass shelf fittings' loads of results, which should yield something.
dhutch - 17/1/14 at 04:02 AM
Maybe i'm missing something, but can you not just put a screw from the outsite, through the glass, into the metal fitting?
Daniel
garyo - 17/1/14 at 08:33 AM
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Maybe i'm missing something, but can you not just put a screw from the outsite, through the glass, into the metal fitting?
Interesting idea. The hole in the glass is 8mm, whereas the hole in the 'slit' is only 4mm wide, so I'd been working on the basis that
I needed to replicate the existing arrangement, but maybe I could find a massive stainless cap head bolt and then drill/tap the brackets so the bolt
goes in from the opposite side to the way it does at the moment.
I could add some kind of bush too, if req'd.
[Edited on 17/1/14 by garyo]
[Edited on 17/1/14 by garyo]
jacko - 17/1/14 at 05:37 PM
You don't want a bolt touching the glass use a 4mm bolt and put a piece of clear hard plastic pipe inside the hole in the glass
don't over tighten the bolt and brake the glass
[Edited on 17/1/14 by jacko]
Have a look here forget what i have put above try this link
http://www.psglassfittings.com/glass-shelf-supports/fitting/through-glass-shelf-support
[Edited on 17/1/14 by jacko]
austin man - 17/1/14 at 08:10 PM
couldnt you use the plastic number plate bolts
dhutch - 18/1/14 at 05:41 AM
quote:
Originally posted by jacko
You don't want a bolt touching the glass use a 4mm bolt and put a piece of clear hard plastic pipe inside the hole in the glass, don't
over tighten the bolt and brake the glass.
Yes, and probably a plastic washer under the head too.
