Driver Sockets & Hanger Sockets

What is in this range

• •impaX spring nut setters (5/16 and 3/8 inch, 65 and 150mm): sockets on a 1/4 inch hex shank for hex head screws. Instead of a magnet they hold the screw with ball locks and a spring.
• •Vertical hanger socket (MXSVS-SI): a 16mm socket with a 1/4 inch drive for Hobson's self-drilling threaded rod hangers for steel and timber, M6, M8 and M10.
• •Eye socket (MXSESM12): Hobson's installation tool for the M12 XBolt (Power-TX) eye anchor, with a 1/2 inch drive.
• •Socket drive 6.5 A/F (PXBSOEL-06.5): a 6.5mm across flats socket drive, mechanically galvanised. Hobson files it with its balustrading accessories as a lag eye screw socket drive, but publishes no sheet saying which screws it fits.

Which socket for which screw head

Hobson prints the drive size on each of its hex head screw and hanger data sheets. Match the socket to the head across the flats, not to the screw length. Select a row to open that socket.

Every driver socket we carry

Select a row to open it in the selector.

Spring nut setter or magnetic nut setter?

Hobson lists its spring nut setters for stainless steel screws and for screws with different head heights. They are non-magnetic: ball locks and a spring hold the screw, which Hobson says holds fasteners more securely during installation. All four are in Hobson's impaX range, black S2 alloy steel on a 1/4 inch drive.

A magnetic nut setter holds the screw with a magnet instead; they are on our magnetic nut setter page in 1/4, 5/16 and 3/8 inch and 14mm. Hobson's data sheets for its Type 17 hex washer XGRiP screws, vmaX roofing screws and BDX cyclone multiseal screws list both the magnetic and the spring nut setter in the matching size as recommended.

Driving self-drilling vertical hangers

Every self-drilling rod hanger in Hobson's sheets has a 16mm hex, and the sheets name the MXSVS-SI vertical hanger socket to drive them. Hobson recommends a cordless impact driver. For the timber hanger, its sheet gives these steps:

1. Drive the hanger into the timber with the 16mm socket. Hobson recommends a drill speed of 1500 rpm.
2. Drive it until the body is flush with the timber surface.
3. Insert the M10 threaded rod into the hanger.
4. Rotate the rod clockwise until it is fully engaged in the hanger.

Vertical hangers into steel

Hobson recommends the hangers for steel for steel 1.0 to 3.0mm thick. Hobson supplies nuts with them and says the supplied backing nut should be used to lock the hanger in place once it is installed. Their working loads and conditions are on the hanger pages: the socket does not change what a hanger can hold. The XBolt PRO concrete hangers take a different socket, the XBolt vertical hanger socket, linked under related products on this page.

Installing the M12 XBolt eye

The eye socket is Hobson's installation tool for the M12 XBolt (Power-TX) eye, a screw type anchor for solid concrete. Hobson describes it as fast and ergonomic, in hardened steel. The eye's own data sheet gives a 12mm hole, a minimum embedment of 55mm and a minimum spacing and edge distance of 60mm; drill and clean the hole, start the eye by hand, then drive it to the embedment depth. The eye's own sheet shows the last turns made with a metal rod through the eye; the eye socket is Hobson's tool for driving it. Hobson's sheet also gives its loads, which apply only in 32 MPa non-cracked concrete at the embedment depths and edge distances it lists; the XBolt eye itself is on our concrete screw page, and we can send you the sheet.

Driver sockets in Adelaide

Allmat supplies spring and magnetic nut setters, hanger and eye sockets, driver bits and the screws, hangers and anchors they drive to roofers, builders and services installers across Adelaide and South Australia. Add the sockets to a quote with the fixings and we will price the lot.

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