Andrew Mawson wrote:
I need some LARGE wood dowel screws - the double ended wood
screws the small variety of which are often used to fix wooden knobs
to doors.

I'm joining 5"x5" timber baulks upright onto 10"x5" oak railway
sleepers, so need perhaps 10mm or 12mm diameter and maybe 100 mm long.


An idiot boy question (again) from me. Just out of interest, how would
you use the double headed screws? I've so far totally failed to see how
you could use more than one per upright since so far as I can see you
have to rotate the upright (or the sleeper!) in order in order to
tighten it.

(I ask in part 'cos the one time I did something similar I used dowel
screws which were thread to take a nut - like
http://www.screwfix.com/p/machine-th...ck-of-10/11850 -
but of course that left the nuts exposed and visible.)


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Robin
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