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Default Appropriate screws for the *sides* of plywood (?)

On 3/2/10 1:13 PM, whit3rd wrote:
On Mar 1, 6:25 pm, "Thomas G. wrote:


It's never ideal of course, but sooner or later for small projects I
end up needing to end-screw (side screw?) into a plywood sheet.


If you have to, prep the plywood by boring a transverse hole, blind if
you want one side to show, and cement in a chunk of dowel.
For 3/4" ply, a 5/8" Forstner bit, some glue, and the dowel has the
right
woodgrain to hold a transverse screw.


Threaded insert, maybe.


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