On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:42:06 -0600, the infamous -MIKE-
scrawled the following:

On 3/3/10 7:50 AM, wrote:
On Mar 2, 8:03 pm, 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.

I've always called them "cross dowels".

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Tomato, tomato.

Of course, that saying doesn't work very well when read instead of
spoken. :-)

So you spell it "Tomato, tomahto.", silly.

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