"FoggyTown" wrote in message
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Let me try restate the question.

In a project where screws would normally (and acceptably) be used to
attach one piece of wood to another, is there anything lost (i.e. in
strength or structural integrity) in using glued dowels instead of
screws?


Removal resistance. The dowel does just fine in shear, but pullout is about
nil.