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

On Mar 2, 9:03*pm, -MIKE- wrote:
On 3/2/10 5:58 PM, whit3rd wrote:

On Mar 2, 11:54 am, *wrote:
On 3/2/10 1:13 PM, whit3rd wrote:


[ screws into plywood edges]
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.


Threaded insert, maybe.


There are metal 'cylinder nuts' that will go in a bored hole and hold
a transverse machine screw. *Is that what you're thinking of?


The cylinder nut solution is sometimes used in bedframes.


Google "threaded insert" and that's what I'm talking about.

I believe what you described is called a dowel nut.

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I always called them IKEA's revenge nuts.