Tim Wescott wrote:
If you were looking on the web, or on the McMaster website for a gizmo
that would hold two pieces of sheetmetal at right angles to each
other, with the side of one going right up to the face of another,
what would you call it?

'Bracket' not only implies a little piece of right-angle stock, but it
seems to get a hit on each one of the thousands of catalog pages in
McMaster, and about one in ten pages on the web.

I'm thinking of something that would be an alternative to the PEM
R'Angle fastener
(http://www.pemnet.com/fastening_prod...f/radata.pdf); something
that lets you put the screw into the panel that's getting butted up to
instead of the panel doing the butting.

I've seen little rectilinear blocks with threaded holes, but better
yet would be a little plastic piece that goes into a hole in the
panel that butts up to the other panel, and engages a screw from the
panel that gets butted up to.

If you have links to manufacturer's or distributor's web sites that'd
be particularly nice.

TIA.

Not sure what they're called , but the last item you described is very
common on cheap consumer-assembled furniture . Stuff like bookcases and
computer desks . Checked with a furniture/cabinet hardware supplier ?

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Snag
wannabe machinist