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god love the person who has to deal with removing the plugs in future (probably me, in which case "fuck you, past stevo_com!").
It's easy. Drill the plugs out with the same sized bit that you used to make the hole in the first place. Done in seconds.
Never heard of putting adhesive in the holes and can't see it hurting. The way that almost all anchor systems for mechanical fixings work is by forcing a higher volume of stuff into the hole than the volume of the hole and compressing it. This goes from the old school wedges into brickwork and matches in a drill hole right through to modern chemical anchor systems which expand slightly as they set. As I say I don't think the glue will hurt but not sure it will help hugely either.
The biggest issue I come across where plugs and other such things fail is people not clearing dust out of the hole (especially with chemfix etc).
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I used exactly the plugs @Airhead linked to to hang the twinslot rails in my living room. Some blown plaster over brick. I followed another bit of advice I saw online which was to drill the holes a little deeper than required and fill them with adhesive (No More Nails type stuff), smush the plugs in, clean off the adhesive that squeezed out and let set overnight before hanging.
Hasn't fallen down yet. Also, god love the person who has to deal with removing the plugs in future (probably me, in which case "fuck you, past stevo_com!").