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Originally Posted by frogeye100
Great info, a little info about what I tried yesterday as a experiment:
I hung 3 clothes rod brackets (they will support a shelf on the top of them) from the back wall of a closet using a metal version of the big thread screw in drywall anchor, I did not use a 1x board under it. Since the load on the clothes rod will apply a pulling (axial) load to the anchor I am concerned that they might pull out. I do think the 1x and adhesive would help. The toggle seems a bit more positive. Does a stud finder work on metal studs?
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Well the metal studs are mostly on the inside walls only, the outer perimeter of the house is
supposed to be wood. The metal studs are of a very, very
thin sheet metal formed and they are not of much value in attachment, ALTHOUGH someone may be able to add to this. I have good luck with a 1X2 glued and screwed to the wall just did a job in my garage, on an inside wall. You can cut the one by to form a large T where a bracket and the horizontal can be attached. It works great for sure and is worth the effort. IF the attachment is marginal, the anchor can pull out and pull a big plug of the Sheetrock with it, ugly. Yes a stud finder will find it because of the metal, the stud finder usually finds the nails in the wood stud.
If my anchor hits a metal stud, I simply drill a hole for the inside end of anchor and also can cut off a bit of the anchor, reducing its length. Write me if you need additional help, glad to be of assistance if possible. And if you have a bracket and anchors that anchor is feeling a shear load, up and down and it also a tension load pulling out because it tends to rotate around the bottom.
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