this is the Spiral Pro for fixing for a plaster board and i've been sent these very kindly by paul
Ekstorm-Hughes who lives in sweden so massive thanks go out to him for going to the trouble
of sending these over he did actually send these over quite a few years ago and i've just not
got around to testing them but today i'm doing some testing so i've got these and we're going
to see how much load they can take before the plaster board fails these are a self screwing
type fixing so it will screw itself in it's obviously a lot easier if you've got a drill
and you also get the supplied screws with these once the screw goes in it actually
opens that up on the back and pulls it tight so they do seem like a much better idea than the
uh zinc worm type screws that you screw into plasterboard which are absolutely terrible
so hopefully these will uh perform reasonably well i'd just like to point out if you do get
triggered by watching these videos on plasterboard tests just don't watch the video it's as simple as
that i only do these tests because a few years ago there were several manufacturers and they
were all claiming to make the world's strongest plasterboard fixing and they cannot all make the
world's strongest plasterboard fixing which is why i went to the trouble of doing these tests
in the first place so i do do them to help people out i don't get anything from it at all they get
these for free sometimes i do get fixing sent for free but i do have to pay for the plasterboard
and my time etc it's taken me the best part of the day to set up the rig carry the weights in
weigh everything and get everything prepared to make a video like this so i do hope that you do
appreciate it if you do please give the video a thumbs up and give it a share and that would be
most appreciated so they are very unusual i've never seen anything like this before
and again i would like to thank paul very much for sending these to me it is much appreciated
to use these it is very simple we're just going to mark where we need them to go
i do have to use washes with these because the holes in the brackets are quite large
i've got to say that they're very quick and very easy to use i do actually quite like these
so i'm now going to load the shelf up and we'll see just how much weight the fixings
can take before the plasterboard fails i'm not expecting these to hold a massive amount of weight
but they are very quick and very easy to use
so
so it is making a few creaky noises, but so far it is actually holding up quite well
so the spiral pro fixing held approximately 118 kilograms before it failed that is considerably
better than the last uh off-the-shelf fixings that i tried that were simple to use i did try about
four in that test they all failed at 91 kilograms what i'm going to do is i'm going to put a link
in the description and i'm going to put a post on the forum and it will have all the information and
all the previous videos and then everything is there in one place for everybody to find