Metallics WAK16B Anchors 3/16 Blu Plas Wall Ancr Kit, 8 (Clam 200)

The WAK16B kit is built around #8 screws paired with 3/16 inch blue plastic wall anchors. If your fixture strap or box cover is drilled for a #8 pan head or flat head, this is the matching combination. Larger screws will split the anchor body; smaller ones won't expand it enough to grip.

Blue ribbed plastic anchors like the WAK16B are for light loads in drywall, plaster, and masonry, things like low-voltage brackets, conduit straps, smoke detector bases, and cover plates. For anything heavy, a cabinet, a grab bar, a large fixture, go to a toggle or a self-drilling metal anchor instead. The plastic body relies on friction against the hole wall, so hollow drywall gives it limited pullout.

It ships as a clam pack of 200, sold under part number WAK16B. That quantity suits an electrician stocking a van or a maintenance shop mounting device plates, straps, and small fixtures across a building rather than a one-off repair.

Yes. It is sold as a kit, anchors plus the #8 screws together, so you are not sourcing fasteners separately. You still supply the drill bit sized to the anchor.

That is the intended lane. Metallics catalogs the WAK16B as an electrical fastener, and a #8 anchor kit is the size most used for mounting straps, brackets, and surface boxes to finished walls. For anchoring into structural framing, use a wood or lag screw directly into the stud rather than an anchor.