Metallics WAKJ14Q Anchor 1/4" Light Duty Red Wall Anchor Jar w/ 10 x 1 with 1/4 Hex Slotted QK Screw

Screws are included. The WAKJ14Q jar packs the 1/4 inch light duty red plastic wall anchors together with #10 x 1 inch hex slotted quick screws, so each anchor has its matching fastener in the same container. Nothing else to order to set them, just a drill bit and a driver.

The anchor body is the 1/4 inch size, so the hole is drilled to match the anchor diameter, 1/4 inch. Drill clean and square, tap the anchor flush with the wall face, then drive the included #10 x 1 inch screw to expand it. An oversized hole is the usual reason a plastic anchor spins instead of grabbing.

These are light duty anchors. They are sized for low-load work on drywall and plaster, things like device plates, low voltage brackets, small conduit straps, signage and cable clips. For a fixture with real weight, a heavy junction box, or anything overhead, use a toggle, a self drilling metal anchor, or land the screw in a stud instead. The screw supplied with them is a #10 x 1 inch, which tells you the intended scale of the job.

Yes. The #10 x 1 inch screw included in the WAKJ14Q jar is proportioned to the 1/4 inch anchor, which sets within the wall board thickness, and the remaining length carries the item being fastened. Common commercial wall board runs 1/2 and 5/8 inch, both well inside that range. What it will not do is reach through a thick substrate or a furred wall, so for those pick a longer fastener and a different anchor type.

The supplied screws are hex slotted quick screws, so they take either a 1/4 inch hex nut driver on the head or a flat blade in the slot. That dual drive is useful on a ladder, since you can set them with the same nut driver already in hand for sheet metal work rather than swapping bits.

Plastic anchors of this type are intended for hollow wall and soft base material, drywall and plaster. In concrete, brick, or block the correct choice is a masonry rated anchor, a sleeve or wedge anchor, or a plastic screw anchor specifically listed for masonry. The WAKJ14Q is described as a light duty wall anchor, so keep it on wall board work.

The jar is a bulk shop container, which is how electrical contractors and maintenance crews normally buy consumable anchors. It keeps the anchors and their matching #10 x 1 inch screws together in one place on the truck or the shop shelf, so nobody is hunting for the right screw mid job. For a single repair a small pack makes more sense, but for repetitive device and bracket work the jar is the format.

Order Metallics part number WAKJ14Q. That single part number covers the complete jar, the 1/4 inch light duty red wall anchors plus the #10 x 1 inch hex slotted quick screws, so there is no separate screw number to add to the purchase order.