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are you hanging it on brick? That can be hard to do and you can make a huge mess. Especially if the brick is old. Also your expansion anchor can crack the old brick (less likely, but a real bummer). By the end of the job you may have succeeded with half the mounts, with the remaining being a nearly irreversible mess. And if the mountings are not perfect, they will eventually wiggle out. I would very strongly entertain the notion of finding an alternative solution.
If you do decide to drill into brick, get a good masonry bit from the store and size matched mounting hardware. The right way to do it with with Tapcon bolts because expansion anchors can crack the brick. A 3/16” tapcon into brick uses 5/32” hole for example.... and you really need a good drill and bit to do this correctly. And a vacuum... sorry I've been down this road before.
The only way I'd mount something like that is into the wood studs with good tight hardware. If I couldn't hit the studs, I'd mount a piece of 8" wide piece of wood on the wall with multiple drywall mounts making effort to hit the studs when possible and then mount that rack to the piece of wood to disperse the load. there is a lot of leverage working against you.
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I want to attach this bit of scaffolding to the wall to use as a clothes rail. It’s pretty heavy. What sort of screws & wall plug combo should I use so it doesn’t fall out.