2x1 surface metal back box?

[DIYspanner]

For socket and switch, side by side.

I can find surface 2x1 plastic back boxes but not metal (garage type) ones.

Does a metal 2x1 back box exist?

 

[EFLImpudence]

They are called DUAL boxes.

https://www.toolstation.com/metal-box/p36665

Some unusual face plates might be just too big.

 

[AndyPRK]

Metal clad? U mean

 

[EFLImpudence]

Ah, beg pardon.

 

[sparkwright]

By garage type ones, I assume you mean surface mounted metalclad boxes.

These are not available as dual box, but are typically joined together with a brass bush and two lock rings.

I have found I've needed a longer brass bush and at least three lock rings, where the modern sizes have been all to cock.

 

[DIYspanner]

Strange how the dual surface back box is available in plastic but not metal.

Noted on the brass bush.

thanks All.

 

[JohnW2]

Strange how the dual surface back box is available in plastic but not metal.

I'm not sure it's all that strange. In comparison with the market for plastic surface-mounted boxes, the market for metal ('metalclad') ones of any sort is probably pretty tiny, so the market for dual ones (rare enough in plastic) must be very very tiny - and therefore probably not worth addressing (from the manufacturer's point-of-view). I can certainly think of no occasion (over the decades) when I have wanted/needed one - and the sorts of environments in which such things are used are such that trwo singles would virtually always be (aesthetically) acceptable.

Kind Regards, John

 

[sparkwright]

Not many metalclad faceplates fit other manufacturers metalclad boxes.

And all metalclad faceplates are supposed to 'clip' over the metalclad boxes, so the design of a dual box gets complicated.

The faceplates always come with boxes - so there is zero market for metalclad dual boxes.

 

[333rocky333]

Add to the fact that Mk Grid switches sit on a metal box with shoulders, there could be numerous combinations needed.
However when Mk logic first came out they did do surface metal boxes 2213 ALM 2214 ALM,ETC that took standard white fronts for conduit\pyro installs, however i dont recall a Dual version

 

[securespark]

Yeah 2213 ALM is a 1 gang surface mounted metal box with knockouts suitable for standard plastic accessories with square corners.

If you want to use MK accessories or round cornered ones, use K2213 ALM. But as rocky says, they don't make a dual box. The best you could do would be to buy galv. couplers and brass bushes to join two of these single boxes together.